Uefa and its allies are close to identifying a candidate to run against Gianni Infantino in the Fifa election and could approve the challenger next week

Historically, soccer has questions that are answerable with context, but are not measurable. Not anymore.

'Fan mode' app will measure how often a phone is unlocked during the game

Additionally, FIFA stated that each of the 32 teams competing at the Women's World Cup next summer will have $2.5 million in preparation funds.

Preparation money for the 2027 Women’s World Cup will match the men’s for the 2026 World Cup and players will be provided with improved flights and individual hotel rooms

Peta has urged Crystal Palace to retire their eagle mascot because, it says, the matchday experience can leave the bird ‘frightened, disoriented and panicked’

I should start with a confession: almost every interesting result in this project showed up first as a bug.
The value function looked wrong before it looked right, the defensive zones came out more valuable than the penalty box, which is the kind of thing that should make you stop and distrust everything downstream of it. The headline policy comparison flipped sign between two runs of the same code with a different random seed, which meant the number I nearly wrote down as “the effect” was, for a while, just noise wearing a confidence interval as a costume. None of this is a special property of football, or of me being particularly careless. It’s what happens whenever you try to build something quantitative that continuously simulates itself: every layer you add is a new place for a plausible-looking number to be wrong in a way that doesn’t announce itself.