The stage is set for a feisty Manchester derby pitching nervous hosts, the Red Devils, against Manchester's most favourite sons, Manchester City.

BLACK STARS' coach, Claude Le Roy, is set to beef up the technical bench of the Black Starlets as they cross swords with their Ivorian counterparts at the Sunyani Coronation Park this weekend.

Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club has described a statement made by Mr Kofi Nsiah, General Secretary of the Ghana Football Association, (GFA) to the effect that the Club failed to confirm their participation in time for next year's Confederation

The newly appointed Management team of Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club that has been mandated to run the Club till the end of the season has tasked itself with the responsibility of finding means to block all income leakages

Super Eagles winger Osaze Odemwingie has earned the plaudits from the Italian media in the wake of his impressive UEFA Champions League outing against AC Milan in San Siro on Wednesday.

The Nigeria Football League (NFL) has formerly withdrawn Shooting Stars Football Club of Ibadan from the Nigeria Football League.

Super Eagles defender Obinna Nwaneri believes that he deserves a move to a big club in Europe thanks to his exploits at club level.

Soccer City, Johannesburg's famous football stadium, shuts down this weekend so that it can be renovated to be ready to host the final of the 2010 World Cup.

Chief Mike Umeh, a former Team Manager of the Super Eagles, has said that the death of Air Commodore Sampson Emeka Omeruah (rtd) has temporary put a halt to the Zik Football Academy project being planned for Enugu.

Nigerian teenage striking prodigy Victor Obinna Nsofor has admitted he dreams of playing for the English giants Manchester United.

FRANCOIS Steyn, one of the brightest stars to emerge from the Springbok year-end tour of the UK -- following remarkable performances at wing, fullback and flyhalf -- admitted yesterday that he has no expectations about earning a spot in next

COMPANIES need to have business continuity plans in place to relocate their business within hours of a crisis, say auditing experts.

There is an interesting difference between openly supporting and nominating a candidate for a certain position and then going for the decisive vote - secretly casting the vote for one's preferred candidate in seclusion.

Sports and Social Development Minister, Engineer Bala Bawa Ka'oje yesterday directed the Nigeria Football League to withdraw forthwith its application for registration as a limited liability company with the Corporate Affairs Commission.

Abeokuta is graduallygaining ground as a veritable ground for Shell Cup matches as it has again been picked for the quarter-finals scheduled to hold on December 16 and 17, 2006, Shola Akinwale, National Co-ordinator of the All Nigeria Secondary Schools

DEFENDING champions Blue Waters will be faced with one of their biggest challenges this year, as they meet an in-form Civics side in what could be a scintillating encounter when the FNB Cup returns to the Independence Stadium this weekend.

REGISTRATION for the popular To Score Seven-A-Side football tournament for companies has opened, with the event expected to kick off on January 19 next year, organisers announced this week.

Ahmadu Bello University Zaria has emerged the winner of the NUGA Zonal Preliminary Championship held at the school. ABU also qualified for the NUGA football event for the first time in 12 years.

The in-house training of trainers course for Gambian coaches ended recently at the Independence Stadium, Bakau.

Gambia Technical Training Institute (GTTI) on Monday, December 4 engaged their visiting Swedish partners in a friendly football match played at the institution's campus in Old Jeshwang.