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Soccer

  • Manchester City’s Lauren Hemp celebrates after scoring her side's second goal at Old Trafford

    Man Utd 1-3 Man City
    Hemp on target as Sky Blues battle back at Old Trafford

    Manchester City came from behind to beat Manchester United 3-1 thanks to goals from Jill Roord, Lauren Hemp and Khadija Shaw
    • Aleksandar Mitrovic leads the celebration as Serbia booked their place in Germany with a 2-2 draw in Leskovac.

      Euro 2024 qualifying
      Serbia seal historic qualification after nervy Bulgaria draw

    • England
      Southgate tells team to lift game and claim No 1 spot

    • WSL roundup
      Gunners sink Seagulls, Daly nets Villa winner

    • Armenia 1-1 Wales
      Wales need favours to escape Euro 2024 playoff

    • Barça 5-0 Real Madrid
      Bonmatí on target in clásico thrashing

    • England
      Southgate backs Pickford to ignore Everton furore

    • Elton John’s Watford showed people make clubs

      Simon Burnton

    • England
      Trippier withdraws due to ‘personal matter’

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News and features

  • Jude Bellingham

    England can rule Europe, a fact critics of Southgate ignore

    Jonathan Wilson
    Three Lions look not like a team who might get lucky but potential champions
  • Everton's Goodison Park

    Everton paying price of leadership’s manic spending

    Will Unwin
  • Darrell Clarke

    Darrell Clarke
    I don’t want to be seen as the manager who lost his daughter

  • Sutton's capital gain but fear of relegation proves taxing

    Conrad Leach

  • Chelsea 5-1 Liverpool
    James hat-trick puts Blues six points clear in WSL

  • Euro 2024
    Ruthless France thrash Gibraltar 14-0 in record win

  • AFC Wimbledon
    Club joins campaign to end gambling ads in game

  • Abramovich exposed
    The super-agent and players as ‘commodities’

  • Israel
    Unauthorised minute’s silence at under-21s match

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In depth

  • Harry Maguire in action for England against Malta

    England’s left flank threatens to derail Euros bid

    Jonathan Liew
    Almost every big chance or goal that England have conceded since the last World Cup has come from one side
  • Everton's Goodison Park

    Fan's view: 10-point penalty for Everton doesn’t add up

    Paul Quinn
    Everton admitted guilt with plenty of mitigation but the process lacked transparency as leaks undermined integrity
    • Street outside Goodison Park

      Everton penalty is a tremor – others may face earthquake

      Sean Ingle
    • England coach Gareth Southgate

      Southgate aims to unlock winning ambition with England

      David Hytner
    • Hayes will takeover the USWNT job four games before the 2024 Olympics.

      Hayes can lead US to Olympic gold despite late start

      Beau Dure
    • Eternal Sunshine of the Sport-less mind

      David Squires on …
      Eternal Sunshine of the Sportless Mind

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Video

  • 'A beautiful thing'
    Albania fans celebrate Euro 2024 qualification

    Supporters celebrated on the streets of Tirana as their national team got the draw they needed with Moldova to secure their place at the Euros
  • Gareth Southgate said there was no issue with England’s motivation levels despite admitting that his players were guilty of coasting during their laboured 2-0 win over Malta

    2:05

    England 2-0 Malta
    Southgate happy with performance despite 'flat' win

  • Palestine head coach Makram Daboub said he was 'determined to raise the Palestinian flag and win' before his side's 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign began against Lebanon in Sharjah

    1:25

    World Cup qualifier
    Palestine aim to 'raise our flag' with victory against Lebanon

  • The Chelsea manager, Emma Hayes, said her side had 'been robbed of what should have been a 3-1 game' after two contentious calls cost Chelsea a victory against Real Madrid in the Champions League

    1:52

    Emma Hayes
    Chelsea were 'robbed' in WCL match against Real Madrid

  • After playing cricket with children as part of a UNICEF project, the former footballer David Beckham joked that he was better with the bat than he was with a ball

    0:55

    'Better with a bat than a ball'
    Beckham tries his hand at cricket

  • Liverpool’s Luis Díaz and his father reunited for first time after kidnapping

    0:43

    Luis Díaz
    Liverpool player hugs his father as they are reunited after kidnapping

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World football

  • Emma Hayes

    Emma Hayes
    Manager to be world’s highest-paid female coach with USA

    The Chelsea manager will begin her new role next summer
  • Eritrea at the Cecafa Cup in 2019 in Uganda.

    'Fears players will flee'
    Why Eritrea withdrew from World Cup qualifying

  • Nestory Irankunda will swap Adelaide United for Bayern Munich next year after securing a four-year contract with the Bundesliga giants.

    Nestory Irankunda
    How the 17-year-old sensation was snapped up by Bayern

  • Bundesliga
    Leverkusen show again they are in it for long haul

  • La Liga
    Girona and their boy from the barrio hit new heights

  • Serie A
    Leadership vacuum hurts fragile Napoli and Garcia

  • MLS playoffs
    Columbus Crew through to semis with win over Atlanta

  • Ligue 1
    Génésio worries for job as Rennes lose to lowly Lyon

  • Europa League
    Maccabi Haifa stand tall on night full of emotion

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The top 100

The Guardian’s annual guide to the world’s top players

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Opinion

  • Cole Palmer (left) and Rico Lewis in England training

    Southgate should use new recruits to transform midfield

    Jonathan Liew
  • Hammarby celebreate winning the Swedish title after beating Norrköping on the last day of the season

    When Hammarby took 7,000 fans and won the league

    Sophie Downey
    How one fan revolutionised fan culture in women’s football in Sweden
  • Illustration depicting Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham and James Maddison

    Kane having time of his life to lead English levelling up

    Barney Ronay
    Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham and James Maddison have all shone so far this season

    Sir Bobby Charlton, 1937-2023

    • The hearse carrying Bobby Charlton

      Goodbye, Sir Bobby
      Manchester unites to honour an old-fashioned sort of hero

    • Sport<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Colorsport/REX/Shutterstock (3161777a) Football - / 1965 First Division - Liverpool 0 Manchester United 2 United's Bobby Charlton jumps above the Liverpool defence with a powerful header at Anfield Liverpool 0 Man Utd 2 Sport

      'Scored 12 against dad’s team’
      Readers recall Sir Bobby Charlton

    • David Squires on ... Sir Bobby Charlton

      David Squires on …
      Sir Bobby Charlton, Munich, glory and heartbreak

    • Jack and Bobby Charlton sink to their knees and hug as they celebrate England’s victory at the final whistle of the 1966 World Cup final

      Bobby’s hug with Jack a pure moment for two brothers

      Jonathan Wilson

    Regulars

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      Football Daily
      Everton into the bottom three without playing a game

    • Wales in training.

      Football Weekly Extra
      Euro 2024 qualifying and United shake-up

      • Quiz time!
        Can you identify these former football grounds?

      • The Knowledge
        The lowest score that's never happened

      • Premier League
        Ten talking points from the weekend’s action

      • WSL review
        Arsenal are firing and Brighton rock City

      • Champions League grades
        United sink to new low

      • David Squires on …
        Arteta’s reaction to defeat at Newcastle

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    Catch up

    • James Ward-Prowse takes a corner for West Ham

      Ward-Prowse’s set-piece mastery is a mystery in plain sight

      Jonathan Liew
    • Cole Palmer, Manuel Akanji and Raheem Sterling.

      Chaotic Chelsea show where City are most vulnerable

      Jonathan Wilson
    • England cricketer Kate Cross with former footballer and her father, David Cross in May 2018

      David and Kate Cross
      The dad and daughter who won the FA Cup and Ashes

    • Guro Reiten, wearing a mask of Emma Hayes, poses with her manager as they celebrate their 2022 Women’s Super League triumph

      Hayes' successor at Chelsea has huge shoes to fill in WSL

      Karen Carney

    The big picture

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    Next generation

    • Next Generation 2023: 60 of the best young talents in world football image

      2023 edition
      Picking 60 of the best young talents in world football

    • Next Generation 2023: 20 of the best talents at Premier League clubs image

      Premier League
      20 of the top talents at English top-flight clubs in 2023

    • Brommapojkarna’s Kevin Ackermann, Bukayo Saka of Arsenal and Napoli’s Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

      Class of 2018
      From Saka to Ackermann: what happened next

    • Joel Ndala of Manchester City, Ben Doak of Liverpool, Ishé Samuels-Smith of Everton, David Obou of Crystal Palace and Jimmy Jay Morgan of Southampton

      'Relative age effect’
      Why scouts select players based on this element of talent ID

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