The Federation Internationale de Football Associations (FIFA) will hold an important meeting with representatives of the Ghana Football Association and relevant operatives regarding the implementation of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology in Ghana’s domestic leagues. The two-day meeting, scheduled for October 31 and November 1, 2024, will take place in Accra, with the full VAR project team from FIFA ...
Fifa says it is happy to discuss the football calendar with the bodies threatening legal action. Last week the European Leagues, which represents 39 leagues in 33 countries, and global players’ union Fifpro announced the action over what they say is Fifa’s “abuse of dominance” in the game. In May the World Leagues Association – which includes 46 leagues including ...
Both Emilio Nsue and the Equatorial Guinea’s football federation (Feguifut) have filed separate appeals against Fifa’s ruling in May that the 34-year-old has never been eligible to play for the African nation. There was widespread shock when Fifa stated that Nsue, the top scorer at this year’s Africa Cup of Nations, had been playing international football without approval since 2013. ...
The Korean Football Association has written to Fifa to express “serious concerns” after Wolves’ Hwang Hee-chan was the target of an alleged racist remark by a Como player in a pre-season friendly. South Korea forward Hwang reported the remark during Monday’s friendly in Marbella, Spain. Como said one of their players made a reference surrounding Hwang’s name. The Italian club ...
Former FC Barcelona star and current president of the Cameroonian Football Federation (FECAFOOT), Samuel Eto’o, is facing serious consequences following allegations of match-fixing. CAF summoned Eto’o for a hearing at its headquarters in Egypt on Tuesday to address accusations of corruption and match manipulation. The accusations involve Eto’o allegedly aiding Cameroonian club Victoria United in securing promotion from the second ...
Al Ahly have become the first African team to qualify for the newly formed FIFA Intercontinental Cup. This comes after the Egyptian football powerhouse defeated Esperance de Tunis 1-0 on aggregate in the 2023/24 CAF Champions League final. Al Ahly, who have won the CAF Champions League a record 12 times, will also compete in the 2025 FIFA Club World ...
World football governing body Fifa has banned Emilio Nsue for six months after ruling that the Equatorial Guinea striker was ineligible to play in his country’s first two qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. The 34-year-old scored the winning goal in both of the games in question, against Namibia and Liberia, last November. A Fifa disciplinary committee was “comfortably satisfied” ...
Cameroon FA president Samuel Eto’o has accused the Confederation of African Football’s General Gecretary, Véron Mosengo-Omba of several breaches of FIFA’s code of ethics during the investigation into allegations that he was involved in match-fixing. The Guardian understands that Eto’o’s lawyers have lodged a complaint with world football’s governing body alleging that Véron Mosengo-Omba opened the investigation to create “negative ...
The Black Queens, Ghana’s women’s national football team, have dropped in the most recent FIFA Women’s rankings. The Black Queens are now rated 59th globally according to FIFA’s rankings, down from their prior level of 58th (1419.63 points), which they held. This loss of 8.74 points in the most recent ranking came from this drop of one position. Ghana’s ranking ...
The stage is set for the final of the TotalEnergies U17 Africa Cup of Nations 2023 in Algeria. Senegal takes on Morocco at Nelson Mandela Stadium on Friday. The two teams have been amongst the most consistent top performers in the competition and the final will kick-off at 22h00 local time (21h00 GMT). So far, the TotalEnergies U17 Africa Cup ...