GENEVA — Female referees will make World Cup history this year by working games at a major men's tournament for the first time in Qatar. Three female referees and three female assistant referees were ...

Tori Penso, the only American and sole female head referee, has been selected to officiate the FIFA Club World Cup. Penso made history in 2020 as the first woman in 20 years to officiate an MLS game ...

WASHINGTON — Whether fans like video reviews in soccer or not, they always draw complaints when those reviews seem to take too long. It might seem natural to want a time limit for those reviews, ...

MIAMI – One unique way the FIFA Club World Cup will appeal to fans this summer is the introduction of the referee camera, which will provide viewers with point-of-view action they’ve never seen before ...

Ugandan Fifa referee Shamirah Nabadda has won the 2025 Caf Women's Referee of the Year, securing one of African football's top honours at a glittering ceremony held on Monday night in Rabat, ...

Football’s lawmakers have extended the use of referee body cameras for broadcast purposes to worldwide domestic and international competitions. The International Football Association Board (IFAB) said ...

FIFA chief of global football development Arsene Wenger has defended the expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams, saying it ...

In the summer 2026 World Cup, the field will be expanding to 48 teams, marking the first expansion of the field since 1998.

In the annals of cricket, few stories shine as brightly as that of GS Lakshmi, who broke barriers in 2019 to become the first woman appointed to the ICC's International Panel of Match Referees. This ...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - An all-woman refereeing team will take charge of England's World Cup qualifier in Andorra on Saturday, with Ukraine's Kateryna Monzul in the middle and compatriots Maryna Striletska ...