With the tournament expanded to 24 teams, there is a new format to the draw, which is being held a year later after the widespread criticism of the system for the 2023 event, which was held three ...

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Wales are set for a must-win autumn international against Japan that will have huge implications for their 2027 World Cup campaign.

For Wales, unwanted records continue to tumble. No home win since a 2023 World Cup warm-up against England, an historic loss ...

England have been able to start preparing for the World Cup for months, but the task of picking warm-up games is tricky. BBC ...

Shohei Ohtani wins a Most Valuable Player award and Japan celebrates with newspaper extra editions being handed out at a ...

Out of their 46 meetings over 120 years, England beaten the All Blacks eight times. The heroes of their most recent home win ...

Five of the World’s top 10 men and four of the World’s top 10 women are among the tennis superstars that will compete at the ...

Warriors' historic scoring run evens up series . Klay Thompson scored 25 points, Stephen Curry had 23 and the Warriors ran off the first 18 points of the secon ...

Japan have never gone beyond the round of 16 at a World Cup but Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, the country's top football official, told ...