Dreams 1-1 Medeama
38' 496 
Hapoel Ironi Karmiel 0-1 Ironi Nesher
44' 399 
Barau FC 1-0 Abia Warriors
43' 399 
Enyimba 1-0 Sporting Lagos
44' 399 
Inter Lagos 0-1 Kano Pillars
36' 399 
Niger Tornadoes 0-0 Warri Wolves
40' 399 
Enugu Rangers 0-0 Ranchers Bees
29' 399 
Shooting Stars 1-0 Katsina United
40' 1191 
HJK W 0-0 Brann W
13' 1191 
Slovan Liberec W 1-1 Rosenborg W
43' 351 
Ostrov 1-3 Brandýs nad Labem
52' 351 
Meteor Praha 0-1 Baník Sokolov
54' 352 
Vykan 1-2 Slavia Hradec Králové
55' 496 
Hapoel Azor 1-0 Hapoel Mahane Yehuda
76' 347 
Kladno 1-1 Baník Ostrava
87' 25 
Iraq 1-0 Oman
46' 560 
Al Arabi 1-0 Emirates Club
HT 560 
Al Bataeh 0-1 Palm City
HT 560 
Al Jazira Al Hamra 1-0 Forte Virtus
HT 560 
Gulf United 2-1 Al Fujairah SC
HT 570 Dreams 1-1 Medeama 38' 496 Hapoel Ironi Karmiel 0-1 Ironi Nesher 44' 399 Barau FC 1-0 Abia Warriors 43' 399 Enyimba 1-0 Sporting Lagos 44' 399 Inter Lagos 0-1 Kano Pillars 36' 399 Niger Tornadoes 0-0 Warri Wolves 40' 399 Enugu Rangers 0-0 Ranchers Bees 29' 399 Shooting Stars 1-0 Katsina United 40' 1191 HJK W 0-0 Brann W 13' 1191 Slovan Liberec W 1-1 Rosenborg W 43' 351 Ostrov 1-3 Brandýs nad Labem 52' 351 Meteor Praha 0-1 Baník Sokolov 54' 352 Vykan 1-2 Slavia Hradec Králové 55' 496 Hapoel Azor 1-0 Hapoel Mahane Yehuda 76' 347 Kladno 1-1 Baník Ostrava 87' 25 Iraq 1-0 Oman 46' 560 Al Arabi 1-0 Emirates Club HT 560 Al Bataeh 0-1 Palm City HT 560 Al Jazira Al Hamra 1-0 Forte Virtus HT 560 Gulf United 2-1 Al Fujairah SC HT Stay on top of the game with VPEsports Football News — your daily destination for everything happening across world football. We cover breaking transfer news, match reports and live results from the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and the UEFA Champions League, alongside tactical analysis, player ratings, injury updates and behind-the-scenes stories. From nail-biting title races and derby-day drama to rising wonderkids and record-breaking strikers, our newsroom delivers fast, accurate and in-depth coverage for fans who want more than just the score. Read the latest football news, opinion and features here — updated throughout the day, every day.
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Nineteen shots, one stubborn goalkeeper, and not a single goal to show for any of it. England’s evening against Ghana on 23 June 2026 followed a script that visiting favourites have suffered for as long as the game has existed: total control of the ball, a barrage of attempts, and a stand-in keeper who decided […]
Roughly 158,000 people call Curacao home, fewer than fill some club stadiums on a busy weekend. That figure, smaller than any country that has ever reached a men’s World Cup before, makes what unfolded in Kansas City on 21 June almost difficult to process. The smallest nation ever to make it Curacao sit around 81st […]
Half a million people live on the Cape Verde islands, a scattering of volcanic dots in the Atlantic that most football fans would struggle to place on a map. Yet at their very first World Cup, this tiny archipelago has held one giant to a goalless stalemate and clawed back from behind against another. From […]
For decades the line in Canadian football was the same: present at the men’s World Cup, but never a winner. That sentence no longer holds. By beating Qatar 6-0 as co-hosts, Canada recorded the first men’s World Cup victory in the nation’s history, and they did it in the most emphatic way a debut win […]
Possession statistics are supposed to be a clue, not a verdict, and Turkiye learned that lesson the hard way in Vancouver. They held the ball for nearly three quarters of the match, peppered the goal with thirty efforts, and walked off having scored none of them. Australia, meanwhile, took two of their rare chances and […]
Six Points, Top Spot, Home Soil: How Mexico’s Perfect Group Stage Sets Up a Genuine Knockout Tilt When the final whistle blew on Mexico’s second group-stage victory, the noise inside their home stadiums reached a pitch that has rarely been matched in the tournament’s history. El Tri did not merely qualify from Group A — […]
Six Under-23 Stars Who Could Define World Cup 2026’s Knockout Rounds Every World Cup spawns a generation-defining moment: Pelé announcing himself in 1958, Maradona’s supernatural 1986, Mbappe’s hat-trick in 2018. The 2026 edition in the United States, Mexico and Canada — the largest tournament ever staged, with 48 nations competing across 12 groups — has […]
Four Points Might Not Be Enough: Inside the World Cup 2026 Third-Place Qualification Rule Forty-eight teams, twelve groups, and only thirty-two spots in the knockout bracket. The expanded World Cup 2026 has delivered a tournament format unlike anything football has seen before, and nowhere is that complexity felt more sharply than in the race for […]
From 48 Teams to 32: The World Cup’s New Knockout Formula Explained For the first time in football history, the World Cup has expanded to 48 teams — and with that expansion comes a knockout format that is unfamiliar to even the most devoted fans. Gone is the tidy Round of 16 that has defined […]
