Xavi will stay with Barcelona for another year after agreeing to finish his contract to 2025, in a reversal of his decision to quit at the end of the season.more

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The cycle of misery that has held Everton in its icy grip for so long was released on a night of passion and fury at Goodison Park that may have applied the final blow to Liverpool’s Premier League title challenge.more

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal has officially admitted that he is unsure whether he will be able to compete at the French Open, which starts in Paris on the Roland Garros courts on 20 May.more

For the ski jumping season 2024/25 Kamil Stoch will prepare himself individually, PZN announced. The detailed conditions and the name of the coach with whom Stoch will work are not yet known.more

Szymon Marciniak is among the 19 chief referees appointed to officiate matches at the European Championship final tournament in Germany. The list of referees was announced yesterday by the European Football Union (UEFA).more

Arsenal London's players, with Jakub Kiwior on the substitutes' bench, defeated Chelsea London 5:0 at home in an overdue English Premier League match and consolidated top spot in the table.more

Arkadiusz Milik's goal in the 83rd minute, seconds after entering the pitch, gave Juventus Turin promotion to the final of the Italian football Cup. "Old Lady" admittedly lost to Lazio 1:2 in Rome, but won the first match 2:0 three weeks ago.more

Inter Milan, who secured their 20th Italian league title on Monday after a 2-1 victory over AC Milan, have confirmed the transfer of Polish national team player Piotr Zielinski from the new season.more

Inter Milan beat city rivals AC Milan 2-1 on Monday to clinch the Serie A title, the 20th time the club has lifted the trophy in its history.more

Novak Djokovic was named World Sportsman of the Year for a record-equalling fifth time at the Laureus Awards ceremony on Monday, while Spanish footballer Aitana Bonmati won individual and team awards.more

The London Marathon has broken a world record for the biggest one-day fundraising event, organisers say. More than £67m was raised as more than 53,000 people took part in the 26.2-mile race (42.2km) through the capital.more

Former Italian national team great Fabio Cannavaro, the 2006 world champion, has become coach of Udinese, the Italian Premier League club announced yesterday. He replaces Gabriele Cioffi, with whom the club parted ways a few hours earlier.more

Iga Swiatek continues to lead the world ranking of women tennis players. There have been virtually no changes at the top. After the final in Rouen, a significant rise was recorded by Magda Linette, who is again the second racket of Poland. Hubert Hurkacz is still ninth in the world tennis ranking. Serb Novak Djokovic remains the leader.more

The Paris Saint-Germain team took another step towards defending their French football title. Yesterday, they beat Olympique Lyon 4:1 in front of their home crowd and are 11 points ahead of AS Monaco with five games to go before the end of the season.more

Real Madrid's players won at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium against Barcelona 3:2 in the 32nd round of the Spanish Premier League. Robert Lewandowski played for the visiting team until the 64th minute. "The Kings" extended their lead over the second-placed "Pride of Catalonia" in the table to 11 points and are close to the national championship.more

Bayer Leverkusen's players, who have already secured the historic German championship, maintained their title unbeaten this season. They drew 1:1 away against Borussia Dortmund in the 30th round of the Bundesliga, scoring the equalising goal in the seventh minute of added time.more

Liverpool's players won away against Fulham 3:1 in the 34th round of the English Premier League and moved up to second place in the table. They have the same number of points as Arsenal London, but are behind the Arsenal on goal difference.more

FA Cup: derby again Manchester United's players defeated a below-class performing Coventry City team in penalty shoot-out 4-2 and joined trophy-defending local rival City as FA Cup finalists. It was 3-3 at Wembley after 120 minutes of play, the same line-up for the deciding game a year ago.Manchester City in the finalmore

World No.4 Elena Rybakina captured her third Hologic WTA Tour title of the year on Sunday after defeating No.27 Marta Kostyuk 6-2, 6-2 in the final of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix. more

Reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir crushed the women’s-only world record in winning the 44th London Marathon on Sunday, while Kenyan compatriot Alexander Mutiso Munyao pulled away from Ethiopian distance great Kenenisa Bekele to win the men’s race.more

Three Polish players - Bartosz Bereszyński, Sebastian Walukiewicz and Szymon Żurkowski were happy with Empoli's 1-0 victory over Napoli in the match of the 33rd round of the Italian top league. Piotr Zieliński, the visiting player, had no reasons to be satisfied.more

Goals from Leandro Trossard and Martin Odegaard gave Arsenal a gritty 2-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers that sent them back to the top of the Premier League table on Saturday after a game that is unlikely to live long in the memory.more

World women's tennis rankings leader Iga Swiatek lost to fourth seeded Kazakhstan representative Jelena Rybakina 3:6, 6:4, 3:6 in the semi-finals of the WTA 500 indoor tournament on courts in Stuttgart. The match lasted two hours and 50 minutes.more

Juventus Turin goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, who underwent surgery a few days ago for a fractured nasal bone, played in the away match against Cagliari that ended in a 2-2 draw. As announced, he appeared without a protective mask, only with a large patch on his nose.more