Elaha Safdari was 17 and had just earned her maiden call-up as a goalkeeper for Afghanistan's women's football team when she ...

“Playing domestic league games abroad is an abomination,” said the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust. “It treats supporters ...

Then, there were two types of football: rugby football and association football, and ‘soccer’ comes from a contraction of the latter, to differentiate it from the former.

Football, or soccer, has been around for centuries with its roots dating back over 2,000 years ago, but it was not until 1863 that England’s Football Association (the FA) cemented the sport’s ...

It’s not soccer, say the English. It is football. To most of the rest of the world, the activity that will transfix millions when it is beamed from Qatar over the next month is, indeed, football.

It is the world's most popular sport and yet there is still debate over what it should actually be called. Is it football or soccer? U.S. President Donald Trump waded into the topic while at the ...

Blind soccer often produces some of the most memorable moments at the Paralympics, but how does it differ from the able-bodied version of the ‘Beautiful Game’?

For years both "soccer" and "football" were used interchangeably in England—football was the favored term, though "soccer" picked up use after World War II.

Football, or soccer, has been around for centuries with its roots dating back over 2,000 years ago, but it was not until 1863 that England’s Football Association (the FA) cemented the sport’s ...