Real Madrid CF's title celebrations continued with a 4-1 rout of rivals FC Barcelona while second-placed Villarreal CF had special reason to toast their 2-0 win.

AFC Ajax have reached the Dutch play-off final for a UEFA Champions League qualifying round place for the third year running after comfortably beating SC Heerenveen.

With FC Bayern München claiming the Bundesliga title at a canter, focus now switches to the four sides vying for two UEFA Champions League places behind them.

FK Zemun coach Slobodan Kustudić has told his players to "turn a dream into reality" by defeating FK Partizan in the Serbian Cup final on Wednesday.

The finals give a chance for new international referees to shine with the experienced Hugh Dallas instructing the rising officials including Bulgaria's Angel Angelov.

Sergi scored two on his competitive international debut in Spain's opening-day win against Switzerland and is hoping for a repeat today when they take on France.

Last season Spain and France both qualified from the same group - and after the nations meet on Wednesday one could already be in the semi-finals.

Filippo Inzaghi's opportune return to goalscoring form means Alessandro Del Piero is not the only old hand vying for a place in Italy's UEFA EURO 2008™ squad.

Julien Escudé's hopes of forcing his way into France's UEFA EURO 2008™ squad have all but vanished after he suffered another recurrence of his groin problem.

There were few surprises as Marco van Basten named his provisional Netherlands squad for the UEFA EURO 2008™ finals - but he has not ruled out late changes.

Eintracht Frankfurt's Austrian international Markus Weissenberger will return to LASK Linz in the summer after agreeing a free transfer to his former club.

Paul Le Guen's Paris Saint-Germain FC are on course for a remarkable cup double after reaching the Coupe de France final with a win at second-flight Amiens SC.

There were further twists in the German race for a UEFA Champions League place as FC Schalke 04 won to go second in the Bundesliga and VfB Stuttgart lost.

Ticket holders attending the UEFA Champions League final in Moscow on 21 May will be allowed to use their match ticket as a visa entry to the Russian Federation.

Turkey Under-17 captain Abdülkadir Kayal is not alone in having gained Süper Lig experience and is convinced the hosts have the ability to claim the title next Friday.

The team has clinched nine titles so far, featuring in ten finals and thus habituating their supporters to victories

Born in 1969, Shvetsov took up refereeing aged 22 to be promoted to top division in the year of 2005

Oleksandr Shovkovskyy appeared in seven out of the team's ten cup finals