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 ...

After years of conflict, Sudan's young women's football team made an emotional international return, overcoming war, displacement and social barriers.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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