The IOC has taken a big step toward reintegrating Russia and Belarus into world sports.

Germany will host the 2029 Women's European Championship.

Bayern Munich’s stadium is set to host another Champions League final in 2028.

British officials are working to overturn a decision preventing Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending a Europa League soccer game at Aston Villa.

Israel’s World Cup qualifying match at Italy next week is expected to attract more pro-Palestinian protesters outside the stadium in Udine than ticket-holding spectators inside the soccer arena.

Tradition-busting plans for Barcelona to play a league game in Miami and AC Milan to feature in Australia should now be able to go ahead.

European soccer body UEFA is moving toward a vote to suspend its member federation Israel over the war in Gaza, people familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The backlash against Israel over the humanitarian toll of the war in Gaza has spread into the arenas of sports and culture.

The coach of Israel’s national soccer team says he is “standing behind my country” amid calls for the squad to be suspended from international competition because of the war in Gaza.

At the Champions League draw in Monaco this week, UEFA hosted European soccer officials and marketing executives from the United States with a radical plan on their minds.

Swiss federal prosecutors have finally ended their case against former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and former UEFA president Michel Platini after 10 years and acquittals after two trials.

Norwegian soccer’s profits from hosting Israel in a men’s 2026 World Cup qualifying game will be donated to humanitarian work in Gaza.

Despite UEFA’s commitment to women’s soccer with a $1 billion strategy through 2030, its president Aleksander Ceferin wasn't seen at the Women’s European Championship except for on the opening day and the final.

Some captains are wearing them, some are not.

All seven trophy-winning teams at the Women's European Championship since 1997 were led to glory by a female coach.

Chelsea has rallied to beat Real Betis 4-1 in the Conference League final and become the first team to have all four of UEFA’s club competitions in its trophy collection.

The Ballon d’Or ceremony to award the most coveted individual honors in soccer finally has a better date for women nominees to be there.

England will send a record six teams into the Champions League next season.

UEFA says it will look into the possibility of reviewing the double touch rule that helped lead to Atletico Madrid’s loss in a penalty shootout against Real Madrid in the Champions League.

UEFA and top European soccer clubs are set to drop the Swiss agency that has sold Champions League rights since 1992.

A bold new vision for the Champions League was launched this season.

The group behind a breakaway European soccer competition to rival the Champions League has resurfaced.

Organizers of a breakaway European Super League have revealed new plans to create a rival to the Champions League.

UEFA says prize money for the 2025 Women’s European Championship will more than double.

The violence against fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam has some Israelis worried if it’s safe for their sports teams and fans to travel to games abroad.

Atletico Madrid is trying to bring a record number of spectators with disabilities to a Champions League match to raise awareness about inclusion and the need to promote better access to sport for disabled fans in venues across Europe.

The biggest challenge to Manchester City’s Premier League dominance was due to start on Monday at a hearing into a slew alleged financial breaches.

Real Madrid will have rematches of the final from its past three Champions League title wins, against Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund, in its eight-game schedule in the new format of European soccer’s signature event.

The new Champions League format this season will see more teams playing more games for more prize money.

Police in the German city of Frankfurt are investigating a video that appears to show a fan being punched and kicked while being detained by a group of Euro 2024 security personnel.

England star Jude Bellingham is being investigated by UEFA over a potentially offensive gesture made during a European Championship win against Slovakia.

The flip side of the European Championship having a vibrant fan culture is the added security risk inside stadiums.

The Albanian soccer federation says UEFA banned its player Mirlind Daku on Sunday for two games at the European Championships after leading fans in nationalist chants.

With outrageous goals flying in from all angles, Euro 2024 has started with a bang.

UEFA has a two-step financial mission to refill its pandemic-hit cash reserves.

It was a night of celebration for Barcelona after another Women’s Champions League title, and for the women’s game in general after another season with significant growth in the sport.

Leaders of top European soccer leagues say have no plans to take games to the United States.

Israel’s soccer friendly at Bosnia-Herzegovina next week has been canceled.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that soccer’s governing bodies UEFA and FIFA acted contrary to EU competition law by blocking plans for a breakaway Super League.

When the Olympic movement and international soccer lived through very public corruption crises, both agreed to limit the terms of their presidents in an effort to protect them in the future.

The Spanish soccer official who provoked a players’ rebellion and a reckoning on gender when he kissed an unwilling star player on the lips is banned for three years by the sport’s global governing body.

UEFA says the result of the European Championship qualifier between Belgium and Sweden will stand after the match was stopped this week when two Swedish fans were killed before kickoff.

Fans of Sweden’s soccer teams will be advised against wearing clothing in national colors when they travel abroad in the wake of the killing of two Swedish supporters before a European Championship qualifying match in Belgium.

UEFA has postponed Israel’s European Championship qualifying game against host Kosovo on Sunday.

FIFA has approved the possible reintegration of Russian youth teams into its competitions and eased a total ban on the country in international soccer amid the war in Ukraine.

A reputation built over decades that European soccer body UEFA is the good guy compared to FIFA as a cartoon caricature villain is being tested in this tough season for off-field politics.

Spanish police have raided offices of the country's soccer federation as part of an investigation into the payment of millions of dollars over several years by Barcelona to a former vice president of Spain’s refereeing committee.

The Ukraine soccer federation says it will boycott any European youth competition that includes Russia as UEFA works on easing a blanket ban imposed since the war started.

European soccer body UEFA has hosted a storied group of women players and coaches for a conference to help shape a brighter future for their game.

Spanish soccer star Aitana Bonmatí has used her acceptance speech at a UEFA awards ceremony to voice support for her teammate who was forcibly kissed after the Women’s World Cup final by the country’s soccer federation president.

Lionel Messi has made the shortlist for the UEFA award as the best player in Europe last season.

All 105 soccer fans suspected of being involved in extensive clashes in the Greek capital that ended in the death of a 29-year-old AEK Athens supporter have been ordered to be detained pending their trial.

A 29-year-old Greek fan has died after overnight clashes between rival supporters in Athens.

Juventus has been removed from European competition next season and Chelsea fined $11 million in separate UEFA rulings over financial rules breaches.

A leading anti-discrimination group in soccer says there is an “urgent crisis” in the game because of racial and offensive abuse.

UEFA estimates a global audience of 450 million viewers will watch at least some part of the Champions League final between Manchester City and Inter Milan.

Kevin-Prince Boateng set soccer on a path toward tougher sanctions in cases of discrimination when he walked off the field to protest racial abuse by an opposing team’s fans a decade ago.

Polish soccer referee Szymon Marciniak has apologized for speaking at a business event tied to a far-right politician and was confirmed by UEFA to officiate next week's Champions League final.

UEFA-appointed investigators have held European soccer's ruling body mostly responsible for chaotic security failures at the Champions League final in Paris last May.

The English Premier League vs Manchester City is a legal fixture for the ages.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter says picking Qatar to host the World Cup was a mistake 12 years ago.

FIFA has come under pressure from several European soccer federations who want to support a human rights campaign against discrimination at the World Cup.

Russia remains barred from international soccer competitions including the Champions League after the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected appeals by the national soccer federation and four clubs.

A group of top soccer clubs face Champions League organizer UEFA in court Monday for a legal match in Luxembourg.

A scaled-back first phase to the expanded Champions League has been approved by UEFA to quell a backlash around Europe.

The ban on Russian soccer teams from European competition has been upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

FIFA has intervened to allow foreign players and coaches based in Russia to leave their clubs, although only for the rest of the season.

The International Olympic Committee has made a sweeping move to isolate and condemn Russia over the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

FIFA drew a swift backlash from European nations for not immediately expelling Russia from World Cup qualifying and only ordering the country to play at neutral venues under the name of its federation, the Football Union of Russia.

The Associated Press has learned that UEFA will no longer stage the Champions League final in St. Petersburg after Russia attacked Ukraine.

The British government has led calls for the Champions League final to be taken out of Russia to punish its deepening intervention in Ukraine, prompting UEFA to say it would reconsider hosting rights.

FIFA says it will take “adequate actions” once it has investigated the the racial abuse that England players faced in Hungary.

Nine of the teams who were part of the ill-fated launch of a breakaway Super League have been welcomed back into the decision-making organization overseeing the European club game.

Danish health officials say at least seven people have tested positive for the coronavirus after attending European Championship soccer games in Copenhagen.

Rainbow flags outnumbered German flags when soccer fans arrived for a European Championship game in Munich.

The British government says more than 60,000 fans will be allowed into the semifinals and final of the European Championship at Wembley Stadium.

German soccer clubs are banding together to display rainbow colors during the country’s match against Hungary at the European Championship after UEFA rejected host city Munich’s plan to do the same.

UEFA is in talks with the British government about allowing foreign fans to fly into London for games in the latter stages of the European Championship.

The trend of removing sponsor bottles at European Championship news conferences was started by Cristiano Ronaldo.

Fans in Amsterdam for the European Championship match between the Netherlands and Ukraine have expressed their support for Christian Eriksen following his collapse on Saturday.

A tournament intended to be a celebration of European soccer will instead reflect many of the uncertainties that have beset the sport during the coronavirus pandemic.

Tottenham and Roma are starting on the road to Tirana.

The 2020 European Championship will be played in 11 cities scattered across the continent in the middle of a pandemic.

Teams hit by COVID-19 cases or mandatory quarantine at the European Championship can have games postponed for up to 48 hours to get new players in.

Bilbao and Dublin have been removed as host cities for this year's European Championship because they could not guarantee having enough fans in stadiums.

Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez says the Super League is far from dead and its clubs have not given up on the idea of the breakaway competition even though they had to abandon the project just a few days after it was announced.

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has directly appealed to the owners of English clubs in the Super League project to change their minds out of respect for soccer fans.

It's shaping up as perhaps the most polarizing idea in European soccer for more than a generation.

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin says players at the 12 clubs setting up their own Super League could be banned from the European Championship and next year’s World Cup.

Human rights activists are denouncing FIFA President Gianni Infantino's starring turn in a promotional video for the Saudi Arabian government in which he claims the kingdom has made important changes. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)FIFA is unveiling a program to educate its member associations worldwide about how to properly handle player harassment and abuse. This is the objective of the FIFA Guardians Programme," FIFA president Gianni Infantino said in a statement. The FIFA program also addresses physical abuse and other forms of harassment. Cook said the FIFA Forward program obligates member federations to participate, although the organization may introduce more strident mandates.