All fixtures are tomorrow unless stated

The GAA have confirmed the fixture details for the next rounds of All-Ireland Senior Hurling and Football Championship qualifiers.

Kilkenny’s footballers could be forced to quit the British championship as they are struggling to field a team.

Cork’s footballers and hurlers will be permitted to reconvene for collective inter-county training on Saturday, December 8.

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson must decide whether to up the ante in a bid to snare last season’s Premier League top scorer Robin van Persie.

UEFA found themselves under the spotlight yesterday after Croatia were fined less for monkey chants at Mario Balotelli than Nicklas Bendtner was for displaying a sponsored pair of underpants.

Arsenal captain Robin van Persie has been voted 2012 Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association.

Niall Quinn is stepping down from his role at Sunderland six years after heralding a new era on Wearside.

There was early cause for celebration among the AIB GAA All-Ireland Club SFC semi-finalists today, with players from each of the clubs receiving accolades for outstanding performance in the Championship in 2011.

FOOTBALL’s Premier League claimed a partial victory yesterday despite losing a European court case against a pub landlady who used a foreign decoder to screen live matches at 3pm on Saturdays.

A FOOTBALL fan cleared of a sectarian assault on Celtic manager Neil Lennon was jailed yesterday for eight months for a breach of the peace at the match and handed a five-year football banning order.

A FOOTBALL fan has been cleared of assaulting Celtic manager Neil Lennon during a match last season after a jury found the charge not proven.

MPs in Britain today called for a major overhaul of the way English football is run to ensure the game's long-term future in the face of rising levels of debt and financial instability.

DEFENDING champions Árd Scoil Rís face a tricky opener in the first round of next season’s Munster Colleges Dr Harty Cup.

BY 2016, the Ladies Gaelic Football Association claim the number of spectators attending their All-Ireland finals will have risen from 22,000 to 40,000.

A FOOTBALL fan is recovering after suffering a fractured skull when he fell 15ft from a railing at a match on Saturday.

Crossmaglen’s Oisin McConville today picked up an historic fifth AIB Provincial Player Award as the outstanding performers of the 2010 provincial campaign were today recognised

Football’s law-makers have approved the continuation of experiments on goal-line technology for another year, Football Association general secretary Alex Horne has confirmed.

FOOTBALL managers are paid to put a positive spin on events but even so, it was a surprise quite how upbeat Mark Hughes and David Moyes were after a draw that did neither side any favours.

A FOOTBALL fan who climbed on top of a stationary train to retrieve a shoe was lucky to survive being hit by 25,000 volts and thrown on to the track, British Transport Police said yesterday.

The Dublin footballers will make a return trip to Croke Park for their All-Ireland SFC second round qualifier against Tipperary on Saturday week (July 10).

Dublin, who lost their Leinster crown yesterday at Croke Park, will have home advantage against Tipperary in the second round of the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers.

Armagh will face Donegal in the opening round of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship qualifiers, after the draw was made this evening live on RTE's Six One News.

Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard celebrated being honoured with the Football Writers’ Association’s Tribute award tonight by insisting he still has plenty to offer the game.

The official Opel GPA Team of the Year for Football has been announced by the Gaelic Players' Association.

The draw for the 2009 All-Ireland football and hurling qualifiers was made this evening in Limerick. The teams to face each other are:

FOOTBALL pundit legends Saint and Greavsie will make a comeback as a TV duo to present FA Cup Final coverage.

A FOOTBALL thought to be from the ‘Bloody Sunday’ Croke Park game between Tipperary and Dublin in 1920 is just one of the items set to make thousands of euro at Mealy’s and Adam’s auctioneers Independence Sale.

WE HAD the Haka in Croke Park on Saturday as more history was made at Jones Road with the arrival of the famous All Blacks. Unfortunately, I had to miss the game as I was honouring a commitment to attend a very special function in the Hospital Herbertstown club in Limerick.

The Premier League have expressed their disappointment after England boss Steve McClaren criticised their fixture list.

WHILE everyone recalls with nostalgia that Trevor Francis was the first million-pound footballer, there may not be so many recalling with fondness in future the advent of the £10 (€14.60) match programme.

STEVE Staunton’s Republic of Ireland have slipped five places to 51st in the FIFA world rankings.

FOOTBALL fans can get their hands on one of the game’s best ever player’s Cadillac.

A FOOTBALL club is to donate £5,000 (€7,400) to help fly a student’s body back to Poland.

FOOTBALL supporters of Ireland, their country needs you.

The draw has been made for the 2006 O'Neills Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland Football Sevens tournament.

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FOOTBALL associations behind the teams in the World Cup were urged yesterday to make sure workers who made replica soccer strips were not being exploited.

FOOTBALL clubs who only offer short-term deals to older players could be breaking the law under new legislation.

DIVISION 1A:

A STRATEGIC PLAN to cater for the phenomenal growth in Ladies’ Football has been launched by the Ladies Gaelic Football Association.