UEFA European Football Championship

The President of UEFA Michel Platini will attend the final match and the award ceremony of the European Under-17 Championship, which are taking place in the Bulgarian city of Burgas on Friday.

The final, which will pit against each other the teams of France and Germany, will take place at the Lazur stadium in Burgas at 20:00 local time

Olympiakos strategic advisor Christian Karembeu expressed his confidence on Tuesday that UEFA are getting to grips with racism in soccer after suffering abuse during the recent Greek derby against Panathinaikos.

UEFA chief on why Serbia and Albania wound up in same group

BELGRADE -- UEFA President Michel Platini has said that Serbia and Albania "never went to war, like Armenia and Azerbaijan."

For that reason, the two countries were not separated ahead of the draw for the 2016 European football championship.

PARIS - UEFA President Michel Platini said that the situation concerning the European qualifier between Serbia and Albania is not innocuous at all, and posed a question as to what would have happened if the drone flying over the Partizan stadium in Belgrade had carried a bomb instead of a flag.

London's Wembley Stadium will host the final and semi-finals of the 2020 European football championship, which will exceptionally be held in 13 different countries, UEFA boss Michel Platini announced Friday.

Bulgaria will not host any matches of the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship, according to an announcement of UEFA.

UEFA announced the 13 venues that would host matches for the championship after a meeting of its executive committee in Geneva on Friday.

Sofia was one of the 19 candidates to host matches of Euro 2020 but it failed to make it among the 13 winners.

At the restaurant on the ground floor of the Stanglwirt Hotel in the Austrian town of Kitzbühel, a sports summit was held on Sept. 1. The top people included Joseph Sepp Blatter, Nawal el-Moutawakel, Dr. Thomas Bach, Franz Beckenbauer, Gianni Infantino, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Marcus Höfl and several heads of numerous sports federations...

BELGRADE - Experienced Dutch coach Dick Advocaat takes over at the helm of Serbia's national football team, goal.com reported on Tuesday.

Advocaat, who is replacing the acting head coach Ljubinko Drulovic will remain in charge of Serbia for the next two years, starting from August 1.

Brazil exploded into collective celebration Friday night after its soccer team won a hard-fought World Cup quarterfinal match against Colombia, 2-1 - then mourned that an injury to star striker Neymar means he's out of the tournament.

Galatasaray is in talks with Scottish coach David Moyes for its vacant managerial post, according to reports.

Moyes, who is currently out of a job after departing Manchester United, arrived in Istanbul on June 27 to start talks with the Turkish club.