The Australian Skilled Leagues (APL) will launch the first ever A-Leagues Satisfaction Celebration spherical this month to coincide with Mardi Gras and 2023 Sydney World Satisfaction, with the initiative set to take place throughout the final weekend of February (24–26) in Australia and the next weekend (March 4) in New Zealand for Wellington Phoenix house …

Simply over eight months after rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament, Matildas star Ellie Carpenter has made her aggressive soccer return with French membership Olympique Lyonnais in a fine addition to her Ladies’s World Cup hopes. Key factors: Ellie Carpenter got here on as an alternative within the 63rd minute of …

The Australian Skilled Leagues (APL) will revise their warmth coverage and doubtlessly rethink 3pm kick-offs forward of subsequent season after an A-League Ladies’s match was compelled to go forward in excessive circumstances final weekend. Canberra United hosted ladder-leaders Western United on January 28 with ambient temperatures near 35 levels Celsius, prompting …

Soccer Australia is nonetheless at nighttime round the rumoured sponsorship deal between Go to Saudi — the tourism arm of the Saudi Arabian authorities — and the 2023 Girls’s World Cup soccer, which can happen on Australian and New Zealand shores in six months’ time. At a media convention on Thursday morning to announce …

The Matildas will kick off their 2023 Ladies’s World Cup marketing campaign in entrance of a possible report crowd, with FIFA confirming their opening group match towards the Republic of Eire can be moved to the match’s largest venue, Stadium Australia. Key factors: The opening group-stage recreation will now happen at a venue …

Graham Arnold will proceed as head coach of the Socceroos, after signing a contract extension that can final till the tip of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Key factors: Graham Arnold will stay as head coach till the tip of the 2026 males’s World Cup, which is able to happen within …

When Awer Mabil was a boy, rising up within the northern suburbs of Adelaide, he acquired phrase {that a} grassroots soccer clinic was being organised by a few Adelaide United gamers at a neighborhood membership about 20 minutes’ drive from his home in Hillbank. Mabil had by no means met knowledgeable participant …

In early March of 2021, Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir, a footballer for French club Olympique Lyonnais and the Icelandic national team, came home from evening training and realised something was off.  Her period had been running late that month. She mentioned it to her partner, Árni, earlier in the week, and he’d asked her if she wanted to …

The football field at John Carroll Catholic High School in Birmingham, Alabama looks like just about any other in the south-eastern United States. A bright red athletics track rings around a long rectangle of scuffed green grass, trodden thin over the past ten days, with two American football goal-posts poking up like forks into the golden afternoon sky. …

As preparations for the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand reach their final stages, FIFA has announced that more than 500,000 tickets have already been sold — but, don’t fear, more are on the way. Fans from 129 countries have bought tickets to the inaugural 32-team tournament, with punters from the …

Can football be saved? If so, from what – or whom? And what, ultimately, will lead to its salvation? These are the central questions driving a new documentary titled “Super League: The War For Football” that launched this past weekend: a series delving into the four crucial days in 2021 …

With just over six months to go until the 2023 Women’s World Cup kicks off, the Matildas will begin their final preparations by hosting Spain, the Czech Republic, and Jamaica in a friendly Cup Of Nations tournament during the February international window. Three locations in New South Wales — Gosford, Sydney, and Newcastle — have …