By creating a format where teams played eight different opponents in a league stage that culminated with 64 goals in the final 18 matches, Uefa decision-makers will perhaps feel they succeeded in ...

Stars like Erling Haaland (47 goals in his Champions League career) and Kylian Mbappe (51 goals), will aim to close in on milestones set over a long period by the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo - the ...

The UCL league phase is over and we now know what the new format looks and feels like. But has it been a success?

With 18 games kicking off at the same time on Wednesday, The Athletic writers explain which one they are most looking forward ...

In the US, CBS had Scott Hanson, the brilliant host of the NFL’s weekly across-all-games Redzone show, feature on their ...

By killing off the group stage and replacing it with a “league stage”, was UEFA also killing their golden goose? Would these ...

It was a rollercoaster, but Manchester City are safely through to the knockout rounds of the Champions League after coming ...

While Celtic had won 20 and drawn two of their 22 domestic fixtures in 2024/25, a derby win would be the undoubted highlight of Rangers’ campaign so far. The 55-time champions dropped points in ...

A year of unprecedented pressures on the global football calendar begins with a Champions League first ... as only the top ...

The Bundesliga’s bottom two, Kiel and Bochum, are the only two teams in the top flight to have picked up fewer away points ...

Celtic have also only lost their opening league game of a calendar year in one of the last ... The side going 1-0 up lost none of those 10 fixtures (W7 D3), with the last to do so in the Scottish ...