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Qatar’s Generation Amazing programme has positively impacted nearly a million people’s lives worldwide, showing that sport really can make a difference.

Maradona's extraordinary talent made him a legend. And, though a fall from grace shadowed the latter half of his life, a year after his death, he is still adored.

After six years at one of Qatar’s top clubs Al Sadd FC, Xavi Hernandez is heading home to Spain to head up one of the world’s biggest football clubs, Barcelona.

The August 2021 FIFA Ranking was recently released, and Qatar proved to be the most prominent climber leaping up the chart an impressive sixteen spots.

Qatar's 2020 Club World Cup is about to begin, but what do we know about the competition? Check out this tournament Fact File to find out more...

Pele and Maradona celebrated milestone birthdays in 2020. Sharing their birthday year are a host of other football superstars - let's find out who.

Sadly, even our football heroes don’t live forever. In 2020, some of the greats were lost, including Maradona, and some who were just starting their game.

In the largest gathering in Qatar since the COVID-19 outbreak, fans at the latest World Cup stadium inauguration celebrated football, National Day, and normalcy.

Maradona was a boy from the slums with an extraordinary talent. He became a legend and a hero but, despite his abilities and the adoration, got lost along the way.

The new handball rule in football is causing some controversy with VAR technology being pulled into the fray - can it be sorted out by the 2022 World Cup?

From Brazil to sandy pitches across the globe, beach football is a growing sport of skill, agility, and stamina. Find out more about how the game is played, by whom and Qatar's involvement in this global sport.

Women's football has taken over a century to gain the kudos it enjoys today; it has been a hard-fought journey. Today work continues to make the game accessible for women worldwide.

VAR Technology is relatively new and will probably be used at the 2022 World Cup, but how does it work?

Women's football is taking off around the world, though barriers to its spread still exist. Qatar hopes to be a trailblazer for the Middle East in its support of the ladies' game.

The top man in football, Gianni Infantino, has coronavirus. So have many others in the industry, proving the spread of the virus has no boundaries.

FIFA’s President has given football fans hope for 2022; he believes that fans will be back in stadiums for the World Cup tournament kick-off.

Qatar has agreed to host the AFC Champions League Final as well as the east and west region knock-out tournaments - another feather to don the World Cup hosts hat.

After hosting a successful tournament for the west region, Qatar has accepted a request from the AFC to hold its east region Champions League in Doha.

The FIFA 2022 World Cup draws closer every day, and fans are waiting eagerly to take their first look at Qatar’s new stadiums. So, what progress has been made?

There have been some nine hundred World Cup football matches since the inaugural game in 1930; some have been superlative, a joy to behold, others are best forgotten.

The '90s were full of great football personalities; here we explore just five of them and the antics on the football field that made them stand out from the crowd.

Discover some of the most iconic goals in FIFA World Cup history, who scored them and why they were so extraordinary.

The Al Rayyan Stadium is the fifth World Cup stadium in Qatar to reach completion, and its inauguration couldn’t be held on a more auspicious day.

Take a look at five of the current world's greatest football stars expected to dazzle spectators with their superior playing skills in 2022.

The appointment of notable figures as Global Ambassadors is one of the strategic steps the SC is taking to achieve their goals.

A goal detection system that promises to accurately determine whether or not a ball has crossed the goal line. But how does it work?