FIFA Intercontinental Cup: Penalty drama ends Al Ahly's Cup dream
Doha, Qatar (PANA) - Al Ahly's hopes of reaching the FIFA Intercontinental Cup final were dashed after a heartbreaking 6-5 penalty shootout loss to Pachuca [...] Full text...
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FIFA Rankings: Morocco retain top spot in Africa
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Morocco retained their position as the top-ranked African nation in FIFA's latest rankings released on Thursday.Despite their continued dominance on the [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-17 WWC: North Korea beat US to qualify for finals
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (PANA) - North Korea pipped the USA 1-0 on Wednesday to reach the finals of the 2024 FIFA Under-17 Women's World [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-17 WWC: Nigeria bow out in battle for semi-finals
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (PANA) - Kennedy Fuller's first-half penalty and Kimmi Ascanio's late goal on Saturday lifted USA over Nigeria and into the semi-finals [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: All quarter-final fixtures
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (PANA) - Here are all the quarter-final fixtures at the ongoing 2024 FIFA Under-17 Women's world cup in Dominican Republic.26 October [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-17 WWC: Nigeria emerge Group A winners
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (PANA) - Nigeria gabbed the 9 points at stake in Group A after thumbing hosts, Dominican Republic, 1-0 early Wednesday at [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-17 WWC: Nigeria qualify for quarter finals
Santiago, Dominican Republic (PANA) - Nigeria on Saturday marched past Ecuador to collect their second victory, remaining at the top of Group A of the [...] Full text...
2025 FIFA Beach soccer WC: Mozambican coach confident of qualification
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Head coach of the Mozambican beach soccer national team, Saidate Moveia, says the agreed objective between him and his players is [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-17 WWC: Results of Day 1 matches
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (PANA) - The following are the results of Day 1 matches of the 2024 Under-17 Women's World Cup (U-17 WWC) being [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-17 WWC: Three African nations take on the world
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The 2024 Under-17 Women's World Cup will be a showcase for African women's football, as teams from Nigeria, Zambia and Kenya [...] Full text...
Countdown to first-ever FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Africa
Victoria, Seychelles (PANA) - On 1 May, 2025, the highly awaited FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup IN Seychelles will officially kick off in Victoria. The event [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-17 WWC: Nigeria’s Flamingos depart for Dominican Republic
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s Under-17 women’s national team, the Flamingos, departed the country for Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, ahead of [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: North Korea win third title
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - North Korea have won the 2024 FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup, beating Japan 1-0.In the final match played at El Stadio [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: USA win third-place match
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - The United States of America (USA) came away with the bronze medal on Saturday when they beat The Netherlands 2-1 at [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: North Korea, Japan in finals
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - North Korea and Japan have progressed to the finals of the ongoing 2024 FIFA under-20 women's world cup in Colombia.In the [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: 3 former champions, one rookie gun for finals
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - Three former champions, North Korea, United States of America (USA), and Germany, as well rookie Netherlands will battle for the two [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: Quarter-finalists line up
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - Japan, Netherlands, North Korea and Germany have completed the quarter-final line up at the ongoing 2024 FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: Colombia, 3 others qualify for quarter-finals
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - Hosts Colombia, Spain, United States of America (USA) and Brazil have qualified for the quarter-finals of the ongoing 2024 FIFA under-20 [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: All qualifiers for round of 16 emerge
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - With all group matches now concluded, all qualifiers for the round of 16 have emerged. Here are the teams that have qualified [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: Nigeria, Cameroon qualify for knockout stage
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - Nigeria and Cameroon are through to the round of 16 at ongoing 2024 FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia.At the [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: Day 3 matches concluded in Groups A, B
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - With the final Group matches concluded on Friday in Groups A and B, hosts Colombia, in Group A, and Brazil, in [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: 7 teams qualify for knockout stage
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - Seven countries are through to the knockout stage of the ongoing 2024 FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia.The teams went [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: Results from Day Two matches in Groups A, B
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - Here are results from Day 2 matches in Groups A and B at the ongoing 2024 FIFA under-20 women's world results [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: Day One results of matches played on Monday
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - Here are results of Day One group matches played on Monday at the ongoing 2024 FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup in [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-20 WWC: Results of matches played at the weekend
Bogota, Colombia (PANA) - The following are the results of the ongoing 2024 FIFA Women's World Cup in Colombia.Group A Colombia 2-0 Australia Cameroon 2-2 Mexico Group B [...] Full text...
FIFA Rankings: Equatorial Guinea, Angola, DR Congo advance
Zurich, Switzerland (PANA) - During this period marked by continental competitions such as UEFA EURO and Copa América, African teams that have not been active [...] Full text...
FIFA Rankings for Africa at a glance
Zurich, Switzerland (PANA) - Here are the FIFA Rankings for African teams at a glance.CAF Ranking CountryFIFA Ranking 1Morocco14 2Senegal19 3Egypt 36 4Côte d’Ivoire 385Nigeria396Tunisia417Algeria468Cameroon519Mali5310South Africa5711Democratic Republic of Congo6012Ghana6413Cape Verde6514Burkina Faso6715Guinea7716Gabon8317Equatorial Guinea8818Angola9019Bénin9120Zambia9221Uganda9522Namibia9823Mozambique10424Madagascar 10525Kenya 10826Mauritania11227Tanzania11328Guinea [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-17 WWC: Africa's trio in tricky groups
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (PANA) - Africa's representatives in the upcoming FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic in October -- Nigeria, Kenya, and [...] Full text...
2026 FIFA WC qualifiers: We'll fly Burkinabe flag high - Tapsoba
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A Bundesliga champion with Bayer Leverkusen, Edmond Tapsoba, is now eyeing World Cup history.Bayer Leverkusen defender, Edmond Tapsoba, speaking to [...] Full text...
2024 FIFA U-17 WWC: Meet the qualifiers
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (PANA) - The field is set. The line-up for the Eighth FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup includes four of the five [...] Full text...
Footballers’ unions take FIFA to court over Club World Cup
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The professional footballers’ unions of England (PFA) and France (UNFP) took FIFA to court in Brussels on Thursday to challenge the [...] Full text...
2026 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of matches played on Monday
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Here are results of matches played on Monday across Africa as teams struggle to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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CAF, FIFA confirm Dates and Kick-Off times for African qualifiers for 2026 WC
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - African Nations will resume their qualification for the FIFA World Cup in 2026 next week.
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FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup: Exciting third round of African qualifiers kick off on Friday
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The race towards a place in the 2024 FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup in Dominican Republic, enters an exciting third round [...] Full text...
FIFA picks Qatar, Morocco to host 5 youth World Cups as Middle East, North Africa influence grows
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - FIFA has awarded 10 editions of its Under-17 World Cups, to be hosted by Qatar and Morocco, starting in 2025 when [...] Full text...
FIFA announces new World football series
Zurich, Switzerland (PANA) - FIFA president Gianni Infantino has announced a new FIFA competition Series that will see 20 teams split into five groups of [...] Full text...
Ahly, Wydad set for FIFA World Club Cup debut, Sundowns, Esperance eyeing other slots
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The race is on for African clubs to secure the remaining places at FIFA's new 32-team club world cup tournament - [...] Full text...
2025 Club World Cup: FIFA confirms qualifiers, unveils new Intercontinental Cup competition
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (PANA) - FIFA says the 2025 Club World Cup will be played across 29 days in June and July that summer in the [...] Full text...
2023 Fifa Club World Cup: Fluminense of Brazil ends Al-Ahly's dream of lifting cup
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (PANA) - Egyptian giants, Al Ahly's hopes of lifting the 2023 Fifa Club World Cup were extinguished in painful fashion as Fluminense [...] Full text...
Latest FIFA rankings for African women's teams
Zurich, Switzerland (PANA) - The Super Falcons of Nigeria have dropped two spots in the latest FIFA world ranking for African Women's teams.
According to the [...] Full text...
2023 FIFA U-17 WC: Germany beat France 4-3 on penalties to lift Cup
Surakarta, Indonesia (PANA) - Germany have lifted the FIFA U-17 World Cup for the first time following a dramatic penalty shootout victory over France in [...] Full text...
2023 FIFA U-17 WC: Magnificent Mali thump Argentina 3-0 to clinch bronze
Surakarta, Indonesia (PANA) - Hamidou Makalou scored an incredible individual goal as Mali swept aside Argentina 3-0 to clinch the bronze medal at the FIFA [...] Full text...
Latest FIFA ranking: Morocco still on top in Africa
Zurich, Switzerland (PANA) - Morocco retain the top position in FIFA's latest ranking for Africa released on Thursday.
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African Ranking Country World [...] Full text...
2023 FIFA U-17 WC: France beat 10-man Mali 2-1 to reach final
Jakarta, Indonesia (PANA) - A dramatic second period saw France score twice to come from behind and defeat Mali 2-1 to book their place in [...] Full text...
2023 FIFA U-17 WC: Hero Heide helps Germany into final
Jakarta, Indonesia (PANA) - Paris Brunner scored a brace then netted a shootout-winning penalty as Germany beat Argentina in a FIFA U-17 World Cup classic.
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2023 FIFA U-17 WC: Mali squeeze past Morocco 1-0 into the semi-finals
Jakarta, Indonesia (PANA) - A late Ibrahim Diarra goal proved enough for Mali to sink Morocco in a pulsating all-African FIFA U-17 World Cup quarter-final. [...] Full text...
2023 FIFA U-17 WC: France beat Uzbekistan 1-0 to seal semi-final spot
Jakarta, Indinesia (PANA) - Ismail Bouneb's late strike earned France a hard-fought victory over Uzbekistan and a place in the FIFA U-17 World Cup semi-finals.
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2023 FIFA U-17 WC: Argentina sink Brazil 3-0 to sail into the semi-final
Jakarta, Indonesia (PANA) - Claudio Echeverri's superb hat-trick helped Argentina sink reigning FIFA U-17 World Cup champions Brazil 3-0 in the Superclásico to book their [...] Full text...
2023 FIFA U-17 WC: Germany beat Spain 1-0 to reach semi-final
Jakarta, Indonesis (PANA) - Germany on Friday beat Spain 1-0 in their quarter-final match of the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Jakarta, Indonesia, to [...] Full text...
2023 FIFA U-17 WC: Line-up of quarter final matches
Jakarta, Indonesia (PANA) - The following is the line-up for the quarter final matches in the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia.
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