Ukrainian Premier League football team FC Mariupol are back, in the most unlikely of places. In a show of solidarity with war-torn Ukraine, a Ukrainian community in...
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Kvicha Kvaratskhelia scored for Napoli on his Italian league debut last August, and went into orbit. A coruscating performance in a Champions League match against...
Footballers may currently be Ukraine’s top export to the UK, but a ruling last month by the Court of Arbitration for Sport means the country’s clubs will...
Ukraine’s football clubs are doing all they can to be more Ukrainian. Except one. Russia’s expanded invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022 brought an...
From asterisks and explanatory notes to lower case letters on TV scoreboards, Kosovo’s struggle to simply be Kosovo continues. The launch last week of the European...
A new documentary chronicles both the breakup of Yugoslavia and the emergence of independent Croatia through the prism of a gifted generation of footballers. FIFA...
Tirana’s National Arena is the venue for the final of the UEFA European Conference League, the first time that the country has hosted such a high profile sporting...
Football has made a good start in its efforts to isolate Russia, but there are plenty of clubs that have yet to end their ties with the country. On February 27, FIFA and...
Just two sides from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have so far qualified for next year’s World Cup in Qatar: Croatia and Serbia. Croatia and Serbia...
Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine’s most successful football club since independence, continues to live in exile, with little hope of returning home anytime soon. Just over a...
A team from Moldova, one of Europe’s poorest countries, has for the first time qualified for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League, football’s richest...
For Hungary’s final group match in Munich against Germany at the European football championship on June 23, the city’s mayor, Dieter Reiter, wants the Allianz Arena to...
