Their first World Cup for 36 years
Their first Copa America final for 44 years
What a job by Ricardo Gareca 👏 Peru continue their rise with a 2nd place finish in Brazil 🇵🇪
Ziyech misses a 95th minute penalty in normal time,as 10 man Benin go on to stun Morocco 4-1 on penalties to reach the Quarter Final
Morocco crash out having not lost a match all tournament
Benin go through without winning a match in normal time so far
Amazing achievement 🇧🇯
All the talk will be about Messi and Argentina, but let's give full credit to Colombia
They were strong, organised, clinical, everything you'd expect defensively from a Carlos Quieroz team.
The strongest of underdogs, could they go all the way?
#CopaAmerica
3 nations looking to apply for CONCACAF membership in the future:
Greenland 🇬🇱:
Despite being a part of Denmark, Greenland have applied for CONCACAF membership and, having played a few unofficial games, could be accepted as early as next year
Euro 2024:
Qualified: 🇩🇪🇪🇸🏴🏴🇦🇱🇭🇺🇫🇷🇹🇷🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇵🇹🇸🇰
Confirmed Play Offs: 🇬🇪🇫🇮🇱🇺🇧🇦
Can still qualify directly: 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇿🇲🇩🇷🇸🇲🇪🇨🇭🇷🇴🇮🇱🇽🇰🇳🇱🇬🇷🏴🇭🇷🇦🇲🇸🇮🇰🇿
Awaiting Play Off fate: 🇳🇴🇵🇱🇮🇸🇦🇿🇪🇪
Eliminated: 🇨🇾🇲🇰🇲🇹🇫🇴🇱🇹🇧🇬🇧🇾🇦🇩🇮🇪🇬🇮🇱🇻🇸🇪🇸🇲🇱🇮
FT Result:
#AFCON2019
:
Tunisia 0-1 Nigeria
Odion Ighalo scores his 5th goal of the tournament, all but securing the golden boot, and ensuring Nigeria finished in 3rd place
As if watching the Asian Cup, AFCON, Euros, Copa America & OFC Nations Cup wasn’t enough excitement already for 2024 …
I also graduated today with a bachelors degree
That’s a wrap
Five continental tournaments done and dusted since the start of 2024!
After 88 team previews:
- Ivory Coast 🇨🇮
- Qatar 🇶🇦
- New Zealand 🇳🇿
- Spain 🇪🇸
- Argentina 🇦🇷
Are the champions of their continent!
Club football now then back in September for WCQ!
FT Result
Euro 2021 Round of 16
France 🇫🇷 3-3 Switzerland 🇨🇭
(Switzerland win 5-4 on penalties)
The world champions are out!! Switzerland win in a dramatic shootout. WHAT A GAME
They will play Spain in Friday's Quarter Final
12 European sides are guaranteed at least a Euro 2024 Play Off spot through their Nations League performance:
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Croatia 🇭🇷
Spain 🇪🇸
Italy 🇮🇹
Israel 🇮🇱
Bosnia 🇧🇦
Serbia 🇷🇸
Scotland 🏴
Georgia 🇬🇪
Greece 🇬🇷
Turkey 🇹🇷
Kazakhstan 🇰🇿
The 2024 Sao Tome and Principe 🇸🇹 season is currently halfway through the season
The 18 team league is separated in two regions, with 12 teams from Sao Tome in one group and six from Prinicipe in another, including a few affiliate clubs of Portuguese giants
As an English supporting fan, wishing the best of luck tonight to
@kosovanfooty_EN
🇽🇰
So much respect for the way they welcomed us to the qualifying match last year, like the way they play football and it would be great to see them at a major tournament so soon 👍
FT Result
Copa America 2021
Brazil 🇧🇷 1-0 Chile 🇨🇱
Lucas Paqueta scored the winner as Brazil, who had Gabriel Jesus sent off, see off Chile to set up a semi final clash with Peru
Greenland have announced they will play a friendly against Kosovo in September, as they seek FIFA membership
Here is a thread on football in Greenland, and bizarre stats from a country whose domestic league lasts for just one week . . 🇬🇱
@DardanianFooty
FT Result:
Finland 3-0 Armenia
The dream is getting closer!
Pukki scores a brace as Finland move 5 points clear in 2nd place after beating Armenia.
Finland are just potentially one win away from qualifying for their first ever major tournament 🇫🇮🇫🇮
#EURO2020
#pukkiparty
Some key 2024 dates to bookmark!
12th January - Asian Cup starts
Qatar 🇶🇦 v Lebanon 🇱🇧
13th January- AFCON starts
Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 v Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼
14th June - Euro 2024 starts
Germany 🇩🇪 v Scotland 🏴
20th June - Copa America starts
Argentina 🇦🇷 v Canada 🇨🇦/Trinidad 🇹🇹
Tears for Suarez
Gallese the hero
The 2 time winners are one win from the final, after qualifying from their group in 3rd place.
Peru's last 5
#CopaAmerica
Semi Finals have all ended in defeat.
FT Result
Copa America 2021
Brazil 🇧🇷 2-1 Colombia 🇨🇴
Casemiro scores a 99th minute winner for Brazil in a bizarre and controversial game that had it all
Colombia stay 3rd having finished all their games, although a chance they'll finish 4th and play the Group A winners in QF
Ever heard of Northern Mariana Islands?
Despite playing their first international in 1998, they became full AFC members in 2020
After a 3 year wait, they are preparing later this year to enter qualification for a major tournament
Here’s the story of the AFC’s newest members
Saint Pierre & Miquelon 🇵🇲:
A French island off the East coast of Canada, who previously applied for CONCACAF membership in 2022
They only ever played in the Coupe de l’outre-Mar (tournament for French islands), but since this dissolved in 2014, they haven’t played since
Saint Barthélemy 🇧🇱:
Small eastern Caribbean island are currently applying for memberships, helped following a $3 million stadium investment by Roman Abramovich, who has lived on the island
This has helped them play a host of home matches against neighbouring islands
FT Results
Peru 🇵🇪 2-0 Paraguay 🇵🇾
Venezuela 🇻🇪 0-1 Colombia 🇨🇴
Chile 🇨🇱 0-2 Uruguay 🇺🇾
Bolivia 🇧🇴 0-4 Brazil 🇧🇷
Ecuador 🇪🇨 1-1 Argentina 🇦🇷
🇵🇪 Lima celebrates as Peru advance to the Play Offs, aiming for back to back WC qualification
They will play either Australia or UAE
An example of how the 2026 WC Intercontinental P-O could look using current FIFA world rankings within the 2026 qualification format
Six qualified teams:
AFC
Jordan 🇯🇴
CAF
South Africa 🇿🇦
CONMEBOL
Chile 🇨🇱
OFC
Solomon Islands 🇸🇧
CONCACAF
Honduras 🇭🇳
El Salvador 🇸🇻
Friendlies to watch out for:
Japan 🇯🇵 v Canada 🇨🇦
South Korea 🇰🇷 v Tunisia 🇹🇳
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 v Nigeria 🇳🇬
England 🏴 v Australia 🇦🇺
Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 v Morocco 🇲🇦
USA 🇺🇸 v Germany 🇩🇪
Mexico 🇲🇽 v Ghana 🇬🇭
Algeria 🇩🇿 v Egypt 🇪🇬
Senegal 🇸🇳 v Cameroon 🇨🇲
🚨Asian 2026 World Cup Qualifying 3rd round draw
Group A
Iran 🇮🇷
Qatar 🇶🇦
Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
UAE 🇦🇪
Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬
North Korea 🇰🇵
Group B
South Korea 🇰🇷
Iraq 🇮🇶
Jordan 🇯🇴
Oman 🇴🇲
Palestine 🇵🇸
Kuwait 🇰🇼
Another day of excitement, as the
#CopaAmerica
becomes difficult to predict
After their Group B opener, it never looked like Argentina would get further than Colombia.
But Chile had other ideas 👏 . .
Tomorrow: 🇺🇾🇵🇪
5 perfect penalties ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
More penalty pain for Colombia, but for me the better team on the night went through
But Colombia just couldn't carry on their impressive form that made them the best team in the group stages
Chile reach the last 4!
#CopaAmerica
2026 OFC World Cup Qualifying Draw
With one OFC nation qualifying automatically and another reaching the IC Play Offs, 2026 World Cup is a great opportunity for Oceania sides
With that in mind, the draw has taken place today for the first two rounds of the competition!
Peru's late winner in Colombia in January proves vital!
🇨🇴 Colombia are eliminated by 1 point as, after reaching the knockout stage in 2014 and 2018, they fail to qualify for Qatar
🇨🇱 Chile miss out on a 2nd successive World Cup
What a day! Right, time for sleep 😂
Confirmed WC Qualifiers
Hosts: 🇶🇦
UEFA: 🇩🇪🇩🇰🇧🇪🇫🇷🇭🇷🇪🇸🇷🇸🇨🇭🏴🇳🇱
Conmebol: 🇧🇷🇦🇷🇪🇨🇺🇾
AFC: 🇮🇷🇰🇷🇯🇵🇸🇦
Concacaf: 🇨🇦
CAF:
OFC:
Still in the running: 🇵🇹🇲🇰🇵🇱🇸🇪🏴🏴🇺🇦🇵🇪🇨🇴🇨🇱🇦🇺🇦🇪🇮🇶🇱🇧🇺🇲🇲🇽🇨🇷🇳🇬🇬🇭🇸🇳🇪🇬🇩🇿🇨🇲🇲🇦🇨🇩🇹🇳🇲🇱🇳🇿🇸🇧
20 places filled, 12 to go.
Tomorrow 7 more will be decided
As an international page, I get stuck on what to post outside of an international break!
I’m going to dedicate each week to a different randomly assigned country and focus on the domestic football from that league (Could be anything from Spain to Somalia!)
First up…
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AFCON Qualifiers
South Africa 🇿🇦 1-1 Ghana 🇬🇭
Kenya 🇰🇪 1-1 Egypt 🇪🇬
Gabon 🇬🇦 3-0 DR Congo 🇨🇩
Gambia 🇬🇲 1-0 Angola 🇦🇴
Gambia qualify for their 1st ever major tournament!! 🇬🇲
Gabon also secure qualification from the same group, meaning DR Congo miss out on AFCON 2021
Of the 32 teams in both Afcon & Asian Cup who have made it out the group stages into the knockouts, six nations are doing it for the first time:
Namibia 🇳🇦
Mauritania 🇲🇷
Tajikistan 🇹🇯
Indonesia 🇮🇩
Palestine 🇵🇸
Syria 🇸🇾
The 14 team 2024 Chad 🇹🇩 top flight concluded last month after 26 league games
While in previous seasons the league was suspended due to financial troubles, and 2022 was a two week Play Off format, 2024 has been one of the biggest domestic seasons in Chad 🇹🇩
FT!
Martinez and Lo Celso with the goals to help beat a resolute Venezuela side
We have a South American 'El Clasico'
#CopaAmerica
Semi Final on Tuesday
Brazil 🇧🇷v Argentina🇦🇷 😍
While most European nations prepare for friendlies in March ahead of Euro 2024, 12 countries are battling it out for the final three spots in Germany
🇵🇱🇪🇪🏴🇫🇮
🇮🇱🇮🇸🇧🇦🇺🇦
🇬🇪🇱🇺🇬🇷🇰🇿
While the new Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 season starts in April, last seasons title made headlines across the world
Champions Arkadag won every single game - 24 out of 24
While it just seemed like a dominant campaign from the outside, the story wasn’t exactly as wholesome as it seemed…
Asian Cup confirmed Quarter Finals!
Tajikistan 🇹🇯 v Jordan 🇯🇴
Australia 🇦🇺 v South Korea 🇰🇷
—————————-
Iran 🇮🇷 v Japan 🇯🇵
Qatar 🇶🇦 v Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
Pick one from the top and one from the bottom as finalists 👇
3 years after failing to even qualify for the World Cup Finals, Mancini guides Italy to become champions of Europe
A superb achievement 👏🇮🇹 The best team won (from an England fan!)
FT Results
International Friendlies
UAE 🇦🇪 0-4 Venezuela 🇻🇪
Bahrain 🇧🇭 0-2 Panama 🇵🇦
Indonesia 🇮🇩 2-1 Curacao 🇨🇼
Vietnam 🇻🇳 3-0 India 🇮🇳
Nepal 🇳🇵 3-1 Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Brunei 🇧🇳 0-1 Laos 🇱🇦
Indonesia beat Curacao, ranked 70 places above them, for the 2nd time this week
FT:
Colombia 0-0 Chile (4-5 on pens)
Alexis Sanchez with the winning penalty as the holders advance to the SF, after Tesillo misses the target from the spot
#CopaAmerica
FT:
Uruguay 0-0 Peru (4-5 on pens)
Suarez the only player to miss in the shootout as Uruguay pay for their failure to take chances against a resolute Peru side
Peru and Chile will meet in Wednesday's
#CopaAmerica
Semi Final!
Tajikistan 🇹🇯 Mini Guide
Tajikistan 🇹🇯 will be the only debutants at the 2024 Asian Cup
After missing out in 2019, failing to beat the likes of Kyrgyzstan and Bangladesh, 2023 was secured through the Play Offs
From tomorrow, club football goes out the window for a couple of months!
Euro 2024 team-by-team previews & fan interviews followed by WCQ previews from Asia, Africa & Concacaf
Copa America & OFC Nations League previews to come too a few weeks later
It's been a tough year for me, losing my nan who I was incredibly close to
But this small twitter account has always kept me going. Not only posting, but just interacting, having a laugh and even making friends with some of you
Thank you and a Happy New Year to you all ⚽❤️
What a tournament 🔥
We had the upsets:
🇸🇦/🇦🇷
🇯🇵/🇩🇪
🇯🇵/🇪🇸
🇲🇦/🇧🇪
🇨🇲/🇧🇷
🇰🇷/🇵🇹
🇲🇦/🇪🇸
🇲🇦/🇵🇹
We had the underdogs making African history:
🇲🇦
We had big gun group stage exits:
🇩🇰
🇩🇪
🇧🇪
🇺🇾
But after 63 matches and one superb final, we have our winners:
🇦🇷
FT Results
International Friendlies
UEFA
Italy 🇮🇹 0-0 Türkiye 🇹🇷
Portugal 🇵🇹 4-2 Finland 🇫🇮
Switzerland 🇨🇭 4-0 Estonia 🇪🇪
Austria 🇦🇹 2-1 Serbia 🇷🇸
Rep Of Ire 🇮🇪 2-1 Hungary 🇭🇺
Slovenia 🇸🇮 2-1 Armenia 🇦🇲
Romania 🇷🇴 0-0 Bulgaria 🇧🇬
CONCACAF
Bonaire 🇧🇶 1-3 Sint Maarten 🇸🇽
And there we have it!
The Afcon 2024 Round Of 16 Draw
Nigeria 🇳🇬 v Cameroon 🇨🇲
Angola 🇦🇴 v Namibia 🇳🇦
Cape Verde 🇨🇻 v Mauritania 🇲🇷
Morocco 🇲🇦 v South Africa 🇿🇦
Mali 🇲🇱 v Burkina Faso 🇧🇫
Senegal 🇸🇳 v Ivory Coast 🇨🇮
Egypt 🇪🇬 v DR Congo 🇨🇩
Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 v Guinea 🇬🇳
FT Result
OFC Nations Cup Final
New Zealand 🇳🇿 3-0 Vanuatu 🇻🇺
It’s a 6th title for New Zealand 🇳🇿, beating the hosts but made to work with two goals coming in the last 10 minutes
Vanuatu 🇻🇺 reached the eir first ever final
Earlier Tahiti 🇵🇫 beat Fiji 🇫🇯 2-1 to finish in 3rd
For fans of the bigger nations who say the Nations League should be scrapped, just ask Malta, who celebrated their 96th minute winner as if they'd already won the cup
That's what it's all about 🇲🇹⚽
Coming up in June:
Intercontinental WC Play Offs
European Path A WC Play Offs
UEFA Nations League
AFCON 2023 Qualifiers
Concacaf Nations League
And a whole host of friendlies!
The African World Cup Qualifying draw for the 2026 World Cup takes place today!
The African qualifiers have long been among the most competitive, with tense 2 legged Play Offs often deciding the five finalists
With nine teams now qualifying directly, a new format is here: ⬇️
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AFCON Round of 16
Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 0-1 Guinea 🇬🇳
For the first time since 1976, Guinea 🇬🇳 win an Afcon knockout game!
And they did it dramatically, as after Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 had a red card and missed a penalty, Mohamed Bayo scores in the 98th minute!!
Thanks for all the likes, predictions, interviews and general chat I've had during the World Cup, it's been fun 🙌
Straight to the AFF Cup now, which starts tomorrow. A preview will be up later including an excellent interview with some fans who describe just what it means 🌏
There has been talk the 2022 World Cup could be Ronaldo's last
But could he have even played in his last one already?
Portugal have 2 play off matches to win, the first of which at home, to secure their spot
They'll be favourites, but as we've seen tonight, they are beatable
FT Result
Copa America Final
Argentina 🇦🇷 1-0 Brazil 🇧🇷
ARGENTINA ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF SOUTH AMERICA!!!!!!!
Di Maria's goal means Argentina lift their first trophy for 28 years, and do so in their rivals famous backyard!!
FT Results
OFC Pacific Games
Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 1-1 Vanuatu 🇻🇺
American Samoa 🇦🇸 0-11 Solomon Islands 🇸🇧
Vanuatu 🇻🇺 and Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 advance to the Semi Finals
The 2024 Copa America will be hosted in the US and will feature 16 teams - the only other time it featured this many was the 2016 Centenary edition
So that's all 10 Conmebol sides, plus Canada, USA, Mexico and 3 other Concacaf sides to be confirmed
The 2024 Copa América is looking like it will be in the USA!! This, after the resignation of Ecuador as host country.
United States, Mexico and Canada have agreed to play. There will be invites to 3 other nations from CONCACAF.
Info via
@FOXSportsMX
Morocco 🇲🇦 has been invited as a guest of honor for the Copa America 2024, the first African team to be an invited member for the tournament.
Morocco are the first African nation to reach a world cup semi-final.
Of the four Semi Finalists from two years ago, only Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 remain in this Afcon
Champions Senegal 🇸🇳, runners up Egypt 🇪🇬 and third place Cameroon 🇨🇲 have all fallen
With seven different winners from the last seven editions, more proof of the unpredictability of Afcon!
ECUADOR VERDICT 🇪🇨
Court of Arbitration for Sport confirm Ecuador WILL be allowed to play at the 2022 World Cup
However they will begin the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers with a 3 point deduction and must pay a fine to both Peru and Chile football associations
Case closed ❌
FT Result
International Friendlies
Japan 🇯🇵 5-0 Thailand 🇹🇭
China 🇨🇳 1-2 Hong Kong 🇭🇰
A comfortable win for Japan, while China receive three red cards as Hong Kong claim a stunning win
FT: Chile 0-3 Peru
A famous night for Los Incas as they stun the holders to reach the
#copaamerica
final!
Flores, Yotun and Guerrero score the goals to ensure Peru's first final in 44 years
Fantastic performance 🇵🇪
BREAKING GOLD CUP NEWS🚨
- Nicaragua 🇳🇮 have been disqualified for fielding an ineligible player in eight matches
- Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 will take their place in Group A
- Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬 will replace Trinidad in the preliminaries, playing Guadeloupe 🇬🇵
FT Result
AFF Cup Group A
Cambodia 🇰🇭 3-2 Philippines 🇵🇭
A bit of an upset to kick off the tournament, as Cambodia, ranked 44 places below Philippines, win their first competitive match for a year!
Argentina have grown since the opening match against Colombia
They pushed Brazil more than people thought, with some questionable refereeing decisions going against them
The performance was good, but for Messi, it's another tournament without a winners medal
#CopaAmerica
The 8 team 2024 OFC Nations Cup takes in Vanuatu 🇻🇺 in June, the first edition since 2016
Firstly, this month sees the Qualifying for the final place at the tournament
Tonga 🇹🇴, Samoa 🇼🇸 & Cook Islands 🇨🇰 compete in a round robin tournament, with the group winner advancing
OTD in recent WC history
2018 - Germany 🇩🇪 0-1 Mexico🇲🇽
Lozano's winner sends Mexico crazy
2014 - Belgium 🇧🇪 2-1 Algeria 🇩🇿
Fellaini and Mertens with late goals
2010 - Argentina 🇦🇷 4-1 S Korea 🇰🇷
Higuain scores hat-trick
2006 - Italy 🇮🇹 1-1 USA 🇺🇸
Zaccardo OG gives US draw
Incredible.
Japan come from behind to beat both Germany and Spain, either side of a defeat to Costa Rica
Meanwhile Germany are eliminated from the group stages for the 2nd successive World Cup
This tournament has come alive 🔥
FT Results
CONCACAF WCQ
Group A
Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬 1-1 Bermuda 🇧🇲
Group B
Trinidad 🇹🇹 2-2 Grenada 🇬🇩
Group C
Curacao 🇨🇼 4-1 Barbados 🇧🇧
Group D
Nicaragua 🇳🇮 4-1 Montserrat 🇲🇸
Group E
Guatemala 🇬🇹 6-0 Dominica 🇩🇲
Group F
Suriname 🇸🇷 4-1 Saint Vincent 🇻🇨
This picture sums up the underdog story Comoros have given us
A memorable debut tournament sees them beat Ghana, before facing the hosts with a depleted squad and their outfield left back in goal
They showed fight and courage to lose by 1 goal, and gave hope to all minnows 🙌
An historic day for Jordan 🇯🇴
The first time they have reached an Asian Cup Final
16 of their 26 man squad play in Jordan 🇯🇴, while just one player plays his football outside of Asia
FT Result
Bolivia 🇧🇴 4-0 Paraguay 🇵🇾
Bolivia win back to back competitive matches for the first time since 1997, where they were runners up in the Copa America!
They move level on points with a stunned Paraguay, and as it stands just 4 points off a play off spot
Bring on the weekend 🔥
Saturday - Asian Cup Final
Jordan 🇯🇴 v Qatar 🇶🇦
Sunday - Afcon Final
Nigeria 🇳🇬 v Ivory Coast 🇨🇮
Both host countries reach their respective finals
Todays defeat for Japan 🇯🇵 has a bigger ramification
It’s looking like Iraq 🇮🇶 will win Group D and expecting Japan 🇯🇵 to finish runners up
The runners up of Group D will play the winners of Group E in the knockouts, which is South Korea’s 🇰🇷 group
🇯🇵 v 🇰🇷 in the last 16?