Manchester City marched into the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the fourth straight season after a 2-0 win over Borussia Monchengladbach on Tuesday that completed a 4-0 aggregate victory.

Rio de Janeiro’s state legislators on Monday renamed the world-famous Maracanã stadium after Brazilian football legend, Pelé. The officials voted in favour of the change on 9 March, in a

After months of arduous negotiations between competing promoters and rival champions, the contract for a two-fight deal between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua to unify the heavyweight titles has finally

Barcelona moved back to within four points of La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid in a record-setting night for Lionel Messi as his team beat Huesca at the Camp Nou on

Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo says goalkeeper Rui Patricio is “concious and okay” after he was carried off on a stretcher with a serious-looking head injury during Monday’s defeat to

Diogo Jota’s strike on his return to Wolves helped Liverpool return to winning ways in the Premier League but the game was marred by a horrific injury to Rui Patricio

Pele congratulated Cristiano Ronaldo after the Portugal forward’s hat-trick against Cagliari took him past the Brazilian legend’s tally of goals scored in official matches. Ronaldo netted three times inside the

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has applauded Amaju Pinnick’s emergence as the third Nigerian to make the world’s football governing body FIFA council. Mr Pinnick, President of the Nigeria Football Federation

Arsenal fought back from a goal down to beat Tottenham 2-1 and claim bragging rights with a north London derby victory on Sunday. Erik Lamela’s sensational Rabona goal put Jose

Former undisputed middleweight world champion ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler has died at the age of 66. The American dominated the middleweight division from 1979 until his controversial defeat by Sugar Ray

Wilfried Zaha has become the first Premier League player not to take a knee before a match since the gesture was widely adopted last June. He opted not to take

Sergio Aguero’s first Premier League goal in well over a year helped Manchester City go 17 points clear at the top of the table with victory over Fulham. Aguero’s second-half

The FA Cup final and the World Snooker Championship are to be used as pilot events as part of the UK Government’s scheme to test plans for the return of

Christopher Wilder has left his role as manager of Sheffield United after nearly five years in charge, with Paul Heckingbottom named interim boss until the end of the season. Wilder,

Chelsea’s top-four hopes took a knock on Saturday as Leeds were more than a match in an entertaining 0-0 draw at Elland Road. Both teams hit the crossbar in an

South African mining magnate Patrice Motsepe has been elected CAF President. Motsepe succeeds disgraced Malagasy Ahmad Ahmad, who is serving a two-year FIFA ban over “governance issues”, and will require

In commemoration of International Women’s Day, the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Basketball Africa League (BAL) has announced the launch of several initiatives to advance gender equality and economic inclusion

Hundreds of Argentines protested on Wednesday to demand justice for the death of Diego Maradona, as experts met earlier this week to investigate how the football legend died and whether

Paris Saint-Germain are through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League thanks to a 5-2 aggregate victory over Barcelona as the Spanish giants came up short in their bid for