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World football governing body has revealed Nigeria's position in FIFA world ranking after the release of it's latest rankings for the month of February. As Gernot Rohr continues to lead ...

Amaju Melvin Pinnick, President of Nigerian football federation, has been cleared by FIFA to contest in the FIFA Council elections. In November 2020, Pinnick announced his intention to contest for ...

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been hospitalized. Reports reveal that he is presently in the hospital in a 'serious but stable' condition. Reports in Switzerland claim the 84-year-old was ...

Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp has been named the men's coach of the year at the FIFA Best Football Awards. The 53-year-old German became the first to win the award twice, ...

Robert Lewandowski has been named The Best FIFA Men’s Player of the Year for 2020, with the Bayern Munich star beating Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to the coveted prize. ...

World football governing body have announced on Friday evening, December 11, the names of the final three nominees for this year's award of best player. The three players are Robert ...

The world football governing body, FIFA has approved 14 weeks maternity leave for women players. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the new development which was proposed in November, was given approval by ...

Japan will host the Club World Cup in its existing format in late 2021, FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced on Friday, with his expanded version of the tournament still on ...

Sir Honour Sirawoo, the President, Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), has announced that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has released its N11.4m share of the FIFA Covid-19 Relief Fund. ...

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo and Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski, are three of the notable names shortlisted by FIFA for this year’s Men Best Player award. FIFA also announced ...

The head of African football Ahmad Ahmad has been suspended by FIFA for five years for corruption, the global governing body announced on Monday. Ahmad, from Madagascar, has been president ...

The world football governing body, FIFA has pre-selected two Nigerian referees to officiate at the 2023 Women’s World Cup, which will be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand. The world’s ...

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has received $1 million from world football governing body FIFA as funds for coronavirus palliatives. “Huge appreciation to football’s world governing body FIFA for the ...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has tested positive for COVID-19, football's world governing body said in a statement on Tuesday. Infantino, who is 50 years old, has reported mild symptoms and ...

The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) has again postponed a hearing on the appeal filed by former Super Eagles Manager, Samson Siasia, over his life ban by FIFA to ...

FIFA 21 announced that the sound track for the football simulation game FIFA 21 features Nigerian singers, Fireboy DML, Rema and Burna Boy and over 100 artists from 23 different ...

Nigeria’s Super Eagles have moved up by two spots in FIFA’s ranking for September to place 29th after more than six months of disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In ...

FIFA on Friday August 28th requested the suspension of the Ivory coast Football federation's election after the body disqualified former Chelsea striker, Dedier Drogba from the elections. Within Nigeria recalls ...

Today is the birthday of African football legend, Kanu Nwankwo. And the football world has come out to celebrate as he turned 44 on Saturday, 1st of August, 2020. World ...

Soccer’s world governing body FIFA has banned Markus Kattner, a former leading official in the Zurich organisation, for 10 years. The sports governing body fined him one million Swiss francs ...