Their red jerseys stood out against the green pitch. Most were teenage girls. Some had fled war. Others had never played in ...

When Sudan player Ammar Taifour first heard gunfire outside his hotel room, he shrugged it off and went back to sleep. He had a soccer match to play. But hours later, gunfire erupted again and gunmen ...

The Athletic FC ⚽ is The Athletic’s daily football (or soccer, if you prefer) newsletter. Sign up to receive it directly to your inbox. Hello. Sudan has been ravaged by war and yet, remarkably, its ...

While Sudan continues to face one of the world’s gravest humanitarian crises, its men’s national football team has become an unexpected source of unity and pride. Competing at the Africa Cup of ...

Al Hilal have been stripped of the 2025/26 Sudan Premier League title after the Sudan Football Association's Appeals Committee ruled that the club fielded more foreign players than permitted in the ...

Football fans usually dread a nil-nil draw. Not so the Sudanese who watched their national team’s goalless game against Angola in November. The result qualified Sudan for the next Africa Cup of ...

Neither has ever reached the CHAN final, and a win at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium (17:30 local time) would mark a golden ...

Sudan's Al Merrikh will play domestic football in Rwanda this season EBRAHIM HAMID/AFP via Getty Images The Rwanda Football Federation (FERWAFA) has accepted three top soccer clubs from Sudan, where ...

July 7 (Reuters) - League football has returned to war-torn Sudan for the first time in more than two years with a one-month competition being organised for eight clubs to determine the country’s ...

Just another example of the strange stories football can produce. Al-Hilal Omdurman, one of Sudan’s biggest clubs, have been crowned champions of the Rwanda Premier League after finishing the campaign ...