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England's Ruben Loftus-Cheek during the press conference in St. Petersburg on June 15, 2018. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov

Sam Allardyce was sacked on May 16 as manager of Premier League side Everton after just six months and despite guiding them away from trouble to an eighth-placed finish, the club announced.

FIFA will hold a special meeting to discuss ambitious plans for a revamped version of the Club World Cup and a new global Nations League competition, football's world governing body has said.

Sadio Mane says his Champions League hat-trick has given him a confidence boost as Liverpool seeks to climb to second in the Premier League -- at least temporarily -- by beating West Ham at Anfield on Feb. 24.

The most valuable team in the world might not be the one you think it is. It is not Manchester United or Real Madrid. According to the latest Forbes list, a US grid iron “football” team, the Dallas Cowboys are ranked as the most expensive sports team in the world for a second year in a row as they are worth $4.2 billion.

The Greek Super League, the country’s professional football body, has decided to limit the competing teams from 16 to 14 from the next season by a narrow majority. The body’s board members also decided to change the structure of the end of season play-offs, with the league’s champion also participating in the mini-championship at the end of the regular season.

The Higher Court in Belgrade on Wednesday acquitted Pocuca of endangering the safety of Women in Black over a statement he made on Facebook in 2014 calling on football hooligans to target the Serbian peace group.

"For anyone who had doubts - justice always triumphs in the end," Pocuca wrote on Facebook after the verdict.

A plane transporting members of Fenerbahçe was forced to make an emergency landing in Hungary on Oct. 19 after a crack appeared in the front window, the club said.

The club said in a statement that the plane made an emergency landing after it collided with a bird, adding that the situation was not worrying.

A total of 24 football clubs have been invited to participate in the new format of Bulgaria's top football division, the A Group, which is expected to be launched with the start of the new season in the autumn.

Whistling while the national anthem of a rival team was being played and whistling and chanting slogans during a moment of silence for the innocent victims who lost their lives in the Paris massacre - these shameful acts took place just the other night in Istanbul.