The Latest Breaking News from a World Cup

Two recent winners in the same group, dark horses in with the reigning champions: which countries make up the eight groups at the Qatar World Cup?

The Green Falcons are aiming to advance beyond the group stage for the first time since 1994

Costa Rica face a tough test in navigating a group that includes two giants of international football

Only one host nation has failed to advance past the group stage of the World Cup, and Qatar will be trying to avoid becoming the second. Qatar will be the only team in tournament history to play in the World Cup without ever having competitively qualified for it, since hosts…

The Jambos midfielder earned his first cap for Australia last month and is hoping to do enough to land a place in Graham Arnold's squad that will take part in the World Cup finals in Qatar.

Aaron Finch's T20 team can join the great West Indies side of the 1970s and Australia of the late 1990s and early 2000s as the only teams to defend a World Cup.

Karim Benzema claimed his first Ballon d'Or but, in a World Cup year, could have huge competition for next year's award as the likes of Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe eye the individual accolade

The size 5 Adidas Azteca football, one of the first synthetic balls used at a World Cup as opposed to leather, had been kept in a cupboard for the past 36 years

SCOTLAND coach Bryan Easson last night insisted that the team can beat Australia on Saturday and get back into contention for a World Cup…

“If you had said to me then, in 2001, that 20 years hence Leigh would host a UEFA Championship and a world cup, then even I would’ve struggled to believe that was possible"

Megan Rapinoe suggested a major gulf in quality between the USA no longer exists but Friday’s opponents England must still prove this at a World Cup