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  • England manager Gareth Southgate celebrates his team's victory over the Netherlands in Dortmund.

    Technocrat Southgate has been transformed into reckless adventurer

    Jonathan Wilson
    England came from behind again, the manager finally made the right substitutions: it was bewildering but brilliant
    • Colombia are looking to reach the Copa América final for the first time since 2001

      Live
      Uruguay v Colombia: Copa América 2024 semi-final

    • Netherlands 1-2 England
      Player ratings from England's semi-final win

    • Wales
      ‘Shapes, not formations’: Bellamy plots his shake-up

    • USMNT
      Berhalter sacked after dismal Copa América

    • Republic of Ireland
      Hallgrímsson is shock choice as new manager

    • Copa América
      Argentina aim for Drake after $300,000 bet

    • Manchester United
      Club agree £26.7m deal with Marseille for Greenwood

Euro 2024

  • A Dutch fan slumps miserably on to the railings at the BVB Stadion after the final whistle

    Dutch supporters lit up Euro 2024 but will go home in darker mood

    Paul MacInnes
  • Lamine Yamal soaks up the applause of the Spain fans during the semi-final win against France

    Lamine Yamal passes footballing exams and earns Rodri’s respect

    Sid Lowe
  • Kylian Mbappé applauds the crowd after France’s defeat by Spain

    Mbappé taking on far right lends pride to France’s exit

    Philippe Auclair
  • Romania players on the pitch after their last-16 defeat by the Netherlands.

    Romania captured Euro magic: now we must follow their lead

    Philipp Lahm
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News and features

  • Yuki Nagasato plays for Japan against South Korea in an Olympic qualifier in 2016.

    Moving the Goalposts
    ‘Feelgood factor is back’: Nagasato rates Japan’s Olympics hopes

    The former Nadeshiko striker Yuki Nagasato believes the team coached by Futoshi Ikeda have the talent to reach the semi-finals in Paris
  • Matvey Safonov, Luis Guilherme and Rodrigo Gomes.

    Men’s transfer interactive
    Track the latest moves in Europe’s top five leagues

  • Barcelona's Ewa Pajor (left) and Ellie Roebuck (right), Wolfsburg's Lineth Beerensteyn.

    Women’s transfer interactive
    All the deals from around Europe’s leading leagues

  • Women's Super League
    Brighton target top-four finish with Vidosic

  • Football Weekly
    Spain into final and Lamine Yamal takes breath away

  • Manchester United
    Club agree $28m deal with Marseille for Greenwood

  • Newcastle
    Staveley to leave club after three years

  • Manchester United
    Costs of Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s buy-in rise to £39.9m

  • Copa América
    Messi and Álvarez fire Argentina past Canada and into final

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In depth

  • Rodri

    Spain
    Rodri: ‘I watch games back, alone. I find things I don’t remember’

    Midfielder talks about adapting to the English game and why la selección are flourishing
  • James Rodríguez celebrates after scoring against Panama in the quarter-final

    Colombia
    Rodríguez is rolling back the years at the Copa América

    The Colombia captain has been involved in more goals than any other player at the tournament. It’s like 2014 again
    • Martin Ødegaard

      Martin Ødegaard
      It's good to rest but I would prefer to be at the Euros

    • Jesse Marsh, Alphonso Davies and Ismaël Koné.

      Copa América
      Are Canada now the best team in North America?

    • Workmen create an art installation celebrating women's football at Brentford FC's stadium.

      Women's football
      Why are Bournemouth, Fulham and Brentford’s teams so behind?

    • Marc Cucurella celebrates Spain's victory against Germany

      Cult hero Cucurella a revelation in Spain’s pursuit of glory

      Sid Lowe
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Moving the Goalposts

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Video

  • Euro 2024
    Spain fans go wild as France supporters commiserate semi-final loss

    Spain fans were ecstatic and France fans felt dejected as La Roja advanced to the final
  • The Changing of the Guard's military band performed a rendition of 'Three Lions’ outside Buckingham Palace ahead of England's Euro 2024 semi-final against the Netherlands

    0:35

    Buckingham Palace
    Military band play 'Three Lions' before England semi-final

  • Oranje fans filled the streets with dancing, singing and celebration

    0:49

    Netherlands
    Fans fill Dortmund streets with music ahead of semi-final

  • England defender Luke Shaw has said that he 'doesn't understand' the criticism of manager Gareth Southgate before their Euro 2024 semi-final clash with the Netherlands

    2:13

    England
    'We love him': England defender baffled by criticism of Southgate

  • Ivan Toney scored with a no-look penalty as England beat Switzerland in a shootout to reach the semi-finals of Euro 2024 on Saturday

    0:27

    Euro 2024
    Toney on his no-look penalty: 'I was thinking of the celebration'

  • Bukayo Saka missed in the Euro 2020 final against Italy, and received racist abuse from fans afterwards, but the Arsenal forward was one of five England players to convert from the spot in the shootout win over Switzerland

    0:48

    Euro 2024
    'That's done': Saka banishes penalty doubts as England advance

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Football Weekly

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World football

  • Canada's players celebrate their penalty shootout victory over Venezuela in the Copa América quarter-finals

    Copa América
    Canada pip Venezuela in shootout to reach semis

    Canada have reached the semi-finals for the first time
  • Ecuador finished second in Group B at Copa América.

    Copa América
    Ecuador sack coach Sánchez after defeat to Argentina

  • Georgios Karagounis (left) and Theodoros Zagorakis with the European Championship trophy after they beat Portugal in the 2004 final.

    From Greece to Argentina
    How to win a major tournament

  • India
    Stimac breakup drags on after World Cup failure

  • Copa América
    Berhalter hasn’t lost locker room. But he should lose his job

  • USA women's football team
    Morgan’s snub may not be Hayes’ most dubious decision

    Megan Swanick

  • Vitesse Arnhem
    Club at risk of bankruptcy after licence revoked

  • World Cup qualification
    Australia drawn against Japan and Saudi Arabia

  • MLS
    Academy players were racially abused. Former stars took action

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Opinion

  • Portugal’s players react as João Félix misses from the spot

    Portugal v France: an epic battle lost in black hole of one man’s ego

    Jonathan Liew
  • German fans wave their national flag as they march through the streets of Stuttgart towards the stadium to watch the Euro 2024 quarter-final against Spain.

    Euro 2024 is a party – but fractures are there for all to see

    Jonathan Wilson
    This Germany team could not emulate side of 2006 in a tournament intertwined with complicated nationalism
  • Alexi Lalas and Fox’s LED 360-degree virtual studio LA for Euros & Copa.

    The calamity of Fox Sports’ coverage offers a strange calm

    Aaron Timms
    It’s a month-long feast of football in the US and Fox is still at the buffet, dribbling into the cheese platter

    Regulars

    • David Squires on … England’s performance art on their run to the Euro 2024 semis

      David Squires on …
      England’s performance art on run to semis

    • Italy celebrate their unforgettable win over Netherlands in the Euro 2000 semi-final

      The Knowledge
      Most boring and exciting goalless draws at the Euros?

      • Football Weekly
        Spain into final and Lamine Yamal takes breath away

      • Moving the Goalposts
        Reading Women's sad demise – we should have seen it coming

      • David Squires on …
        Scotland facing the music after another early exit

      • Football Daily podcast
        History for Georgia and heartbreak for Ukraine

    The top 100

    • trail football 100 mens 2023 day 4

      Men's edition
      Our picks for the best male players in the world 2023

    • Sam Kerr, Aitana Bonmatí and Salma Paralluelo

      Women's edition
      The 100 best female players in the world 2023

    • Erling Haaland of Manchester City celebrates after scoring his side's fourth goal during the Premier League match between Manchester City and Fulham.

      Haaland voted the world’s best – and he’s just getting started

      Niall McVeigh
    • Spain v England: Final - FIFA Women's World Cup Australia &amp; New Zealand 2023<br>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 20: Aitana Bonmati and Spain players celebrate after the team's victory in the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia &amp; New Zealand 2023 Final match between Spain and England at Stadium Australia on August 20, 2023 in Sydney / Gadigal, Australia. (Photo by Alex Pantling - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)

      Spain and Barcelona lead way after year of success

      Rich Laverty
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    Catch up

    • Harry Kane collides with Gareth Southgate in the England dugout during extra time.

      England lose control and embrace chaos to rise from canvas again

      Jonathan Liew
    • From top left: Own goals from Italy's Riccardo Calafiori v Spain, Switzerland's Fabian Schaer v Scotland, Netherland's Donyell Malen v Austria, Turkey's Samet Akaydin v Portugal, Spain's Robin Le Normand v Georgia, Czech Republic's Robin Hranac v Portugal.

      Euro 2024
      Why have there been so many own goals at the tournament?

    • Gareth Southgate and his players

      It is getting harder for players to survive social media abusers

      Jason Stockwood
    • Mary Earps after Manchester United's defeat by Chelsea at the end of the WSL season

      Manchester United Women being hindered by indifference

      Suzanne Wrack

    The big picture

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    Next generation

    • Next Generation 2023: 60 of the best young talents in world football image

      2023 edition
      Picking 60 of the best young talents in world football

    • Next Generation 2023: 20 of the best talents at Premier League clubs image

      Premier League
      20 of the top talents at English top-flight clubs in 2023

    • Brommapojkarna’s Kevin Ackermann, Bukayo Saka of Arsenal and Napoli’s Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

      Class of 2018
      From Saka to Ackermann: what happened next

    • Joel Ndala of Manchester City, Ben Doak of Liverpool, Ishé Samuels-Smith of Everton, David Obou of Crystal Palace and Jimmy Jay Morgan of Southampton

      'Relative age effect’
      Why scouts select players based on this element of talent ID

    The top 100

    The Guardian’s annual guide to the world’s top players

    See who made the lists

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