Real Madrid in Champions League playoffs despite win at Brest – updates

Real Madrid are the first football club to top a billion euros in revenue during a single season, fuelled by income generated by the revamped Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, according to accountancy firm Deloitte. The order of the clubs at the top of Deloitte’s annual Football Money League stayed the same, with Madrid at 1.05 billion…

Liverpool leave it late to beat Brentford in nervy affair for table toppers

Former football leaders Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are back in a Swiss court as their new trial on fraud, forgery and misappropriation charges opens. “I am hopeful,” ex-FIFA president Blatter, appearing frail one week before his 89th birthday, told reporters in German as he walked slowly down a flight of stairs towards the court…

Who: Real Madrid vs Pachuca What: FIFA Intercontinental Cup final Where: Lusail Stadium, Doha, Qatar When: 8pm (17:00 GMT) on Wednesday December 18 Follow Al Jazeera’s live text and photo build-up and commentary. European champions Real Madrid will target a record-extending sixth global crown when they enter the inaugural FIFA Intercontinental Cup against Mexican side…

Arsenal kept their Premier League title challenge alive with a 5-1 demolition of dismal Manchester City as the troubled champions endured another humiliation in a miserable season. Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal had no margin for error in the title race after leaders Liverpool won 2-0 at Bournemouth on Saturday to move nine points clear of the…

Indonesia have sacked their men’s football coach Shin Tae-yong with the country’s football chief saying the team needed stronger leadership as they battle for a place at the FIFA World Cup 2026. “We need a leadership that implements strategies as agreed with the players, communicates better, and implements better programmes for our national team,” Erick…