Netherlands has had a very poor European Championship and Batavia federation said it would launch an investigation to determine who is guilty of this counter-performance. However, Bert van Oostven, the Dutch Football Federation president, said that coach Bert van Marwijk is not endangered after the failure from EURO 2012. “We analyze the situation better in [ Read More ]
Competitions articles
Manchester City FC have their backs to the wall as they host FC Bayern München in their final UEFA Champions League Group A fixture. City slipped to third with their 2-1 defeat at SSC Napoli on 22 November and will only prolong their first UEFA Champions League campaign into the knockout stages if they beat [ Read More ]
A first defeat of the campaign has put Chelsea FC in jeopardy of missing out on the UEFA Champions League knockout rounds for the first time since 2002/03 as Valencia CF visit Stamford Bridge. An away win or a scoring draw would be enough to take the visitors through. Chelsea are in this position having [ Read More ]
With FC Barcelona already assured top spot and AC Milan second, the only remaining question in Group H is which club will take third place and BATE Borisov visit the Camp Nou with it all to do if they are to avoid the wooden spoon. Viktor Goncharenko’s men sit two points below third-placed FC Viktoria [ Read More ]
FIFPro, the worldwide players’ union, and FIFA announced the 55 players shortlisted for the FIFA FIFPro World XI 2011 (see full list below), which is to be revealed at the FIFA Ballon d’Or in Zurich on 9 January 2012. The 50,000 professional footballers belonging to the players’ unions across the world that form FIFPro took [ Read More ]
Schalke 04 host Steaua Bucuresti in Group J knowing victory will take them through to the round of 32, while the visitors will have to overcome an unenviable record in Germany. Ralf Rangnick’s Schalke had the best of proceedings in the sides matchday one meeting in Cluj-Napoca but could not find a way through Roni [ Read More ]
A defeat in Ukraine, and victory for AZ Alkmaar at Malmo FF, will see FK Austria Wien out of the UEFA Europa League, while victory will put FC Metalist Kharkiv into the round of 32. A Cleiton Xavier penalty completed a Metalist comeback when the Ukrainian team won 2-1 in the sides’ first meeting on [ Read More ]
With both teams already certain of a place in the round of 32, Legia Warszawa and PSV Eindhoven meet in Poland – the visitors safe in the knowledge a victory would guarantee them top spot in Group C. A tremendous Dries Mertens strike after 21 minutes settled the sides’ first meeting in PSV’s favour on [ Read More ]
Stade Rennes‘s UEFA Europa League hopes are hanging by a thread as they welcome Udinese Calcio on matchday five, needing a win to reignite their campaign and keep their dreams of progression alive. Rennes lost 2-1 in Italy when the sides met for the first time on matchday one. The visitors took an 18th-minute lead [ Read More ]
After the completion of the UEFA EURO 2012 qualifiers, UEFA announced the seedings to be used for the Final Draw, taking place at the Palace of Arts in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 2 December at 19:00 local time (18:00 CET). The 16 teams that will participate in the final round of the UEFA European Football Championship [ Read More ]