The Spanish league is finally playing a regular-season game in the United States.

Tradition-busting plans for Barcelona to play a league game in Miami and AC Milan to feature in Australia should now be able to go ahead.

The Champions League sends its top-ranked teams to new places this week.

Titleholder Arsenal will start its Women’s Champions League defense with games against record eight-time winner OL Lyonnes, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid in the new league-phase format.

Indian soccer officials say that a job application to coach their national team it apparently received from former Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández was fake.

Barcelona will now play a preseason game in Japan that it had previously said was canceled after resolving a contractual dispute with the promoter.

Arsenal has upset defending champion Barcelona 1-0 to win the Women’s Champions League for a second time.

The Ballon d’Or ceremony to award the most coveted individual honors in soccer finally has a better date for women nominees to be there.

DeVonta Smith enjoyed his first international game experience last September when the Philadelphia Eagles opened what became a Super Bowl championship season by beating the Green Bay Packers in Brazil in the NFL’s first game in South America.

It was a night of celebration for Barcelona after another Women’s Champions League title, and for the women’s game in general after another season with significant growth in the sport.

Barcelona has ended its losing streak against Lyon to clinch its third Women’s Champions League in four years.

British auction house Bonhams says the famous napkin that linked a young Lionel Messi to Barcelona has sold for $965,000.

FIFA has finally set a date for the first Women’s Club World Cup tournament.

Spanish police have raided offices of the country's soccer federation as part of an investigation into the payment of millions of dollars over several years by Barcelona to a former vice president of Spain’s refereeing committee.

The players in Spain’s women’s soccer league have called off a strike after reaching a deal to increase minimum wage.

Barcelona again couldn’t do enough to entice Lionel Messi.

Barcelona has sold off even more of its club assets so it could meet the Spanish league’s financial rules and clear Robert Lewandowski and other newcomers to play in the season opener.

Federal authorities are moving to seize a $60 million Gulfstream and a $350 million aircraft believed to be one of the world's most expensive private airplanes after linking both aircraft to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

Barcelona’s 17-year streak of advancing to the Champions League knockout rounds each season has ended with an exit from the group stage that failed to finish on time because of snow in Italy.

Barcelona’s president has presented a grim picture of the club’s financial situation.

An emotional Lionel Messi says in his farewell to Barcelona that he wasn’t prepared to leave the club.

Barcelona’s announcement that Lionel Messi would be leaving the club set Paris Saint-Germain scrambling to figure out if it could sign the most desired free agent in soccer history.

Barcelona say Lionel Messi will not stay with the club.

The coronavirus outbreak brought significant disruption to women’s soccer around the world with some players going without competition for as many as 250 days.

Barcelona has stormed to its first Women’s Champions League title by scoring after just 32 seconds and outclassing Chelsea 4-0.

Neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo will be in the Champions League quarterfinals for the first time since 2005. Ronaldo has won five Champions League titles in his career. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)Back before iPhones, Twitter and Instagram even existed, there was Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo — or both — in the Champions League quarterfinals. Ronaldo has won five Champions League titles — one with Manchester United and the rest with Real Madrid, including three straight from 2016-18. The two have even met in the final, with Messi and Barcelona beating Ronaldo and Man United 2-0 in 2009.

(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)PARIS – Paris Saint-Germain withstood early pressure from a much-improved but wasteful Barcelona side to draw 1-1 on Wednesday and reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Neymar and Messi tormented PSG that night, but there was to be no reply this time. Navas then tipped Sergino Dest’s drive onto the crossbar as Barcelona opened PSG up with its passing and movement. Incessant pressure led to a penalty for Barcelona, again following a VAR check, when Kurzawa was adjudged to have impeded Griezmann. With that miss, some of the belief seemed to sap from Barcelona and the second half was more even.

Spanish police detained several people after raiding Barcelona's stadium in a search and seize operation related to an investigation into club officials. The operation was related to last year’s “Barçagate,” in which club officials were accused of launching a smear campaign against current and former players who were critical of the club and then-president Josep Maria Bartomeu. They were taken to a police station for interrogation, Spanish media said, and police also went to Bartomeu’s house searching for evidence. Court officials said a judge ordered the search and seize operation but the detentions had been made at the discretion of the police agents involved. Barcelona had denied accusations that it hired — and overpaid — a company to make negative comments about its own players and opponents on social media in order to boost the image of senior club officials.

But the struggles were far from over for Barcelona, which went on to lose 4-1 in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday. The team looked beaten and bruised after the home loss on Tuesday, with players and coach Ronald Koeman conceding that Barcelona wasn’t up to the task against a better PSG team and admitting that things have to change. PSG, meanwhile, has added top players and has come closer and closer to breaking through with the European title. AdThe Catalan club has made it to the Champions League quarterfinals 13 straight times, last being stopped in the round of 16 in 2007. It was PSG that looked like the big European powerhouse, and it seems that it felt that way for Barcelona players as well.

Its problems off the field are far from over, though, with the club now trying to show it is fully behind Lionel Messi after the embarrassing leaking of his contract. But the club's focus was on trying to find out how — and why — Messi’s 555-million-euro ($673 million) contract ended up being disclosed. “If someone from the club leaked this, that person can’t have a future in this club.”AdThe El Mundo newspaper gained access to the contract that Messi signed with the Catalan club in 2017. Laporta said he messaged Messi to encourage him and tell him not to worry about the leaking of his contract. AdThe Catalan club struggled at the start of the season but has improved recently.

(AP Photo/Joan Monfort)MADRID – Lionel Messi’s most recent contract with Barcelona is worth up to 555 million euros ($673 million) over four seasons, the El Mundo newspaper reported on Sunday. The Spanish daily said it had access to the document Messi signed with the Catalan club in 2017, which included fixed incomes and variables that could reach nearly 138 million euros ($167 million) each season. The newspaper said it is the most expensive contract ever agreed with an athlete in any sport. The report said the 33-year-old player has already secured more than 510 million euros ($619 million) of the total. The newspaper also detailed how Messi rewarded the club over the years, having helped it win more than 30 titles.

Barcelona's Lionel Messi during the Spanish Supercopa final soccer match between FC Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao at La Cartuja stadium in Seville, Spain, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Miguel Morenatti)Lionel Messi avoided a tougher sanction and was suspended for only two matches on Tuesday after hitting an opponent in an incident away from the ball in the Spanish Super Cup final. The Spanish soccer federation’s competition committee did not deem the incident to be too serious and applied a less severe penalty. Referee Gil Manzano said in his match report that Messi hit his opponent with “excessive force” while the ball was not near him. Messi will miss Barcelona's matches against third-division club Cornellà in the Copa del Rey and against Elche in the Spanish league.

“I am going to wait until the end of the season (to decide),” the 33-year-old Messi told private Spanish station La Sexta. The club said no, and Messi backed down saying that he could not take his club to court. “Let the best candidate win,” Messi said. The interview with Spanish journalist Jordi Évole was recorded recently and aired hours after Barcelona announced that Messi would miss Tuesday's Spanish league game against Eibar due to an unspecified ankle injury. Messi has helped Barcelona win four Champions League and 10 Spanish league titles since his debut in 2004.

Barcelona's Antoine Griezmann reacts after missing a chance during the Champions League group G soccer match between FC Barcelona and Juventus at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)BARCELONA – French soccer player Antoine Griezmann ended his affiliation with Huawei on Thursday, saying there are “strong suspicions” that the Chinese tech giant has contributed to the repression of the mostly Muslim minority Uighurs. The 29-year-old Barcelona forward's announcement followed media reports that Huawei has tested facial recognition software intended to help China's surveillance of the group. “Following strong suspicions that the Huawei company has contributed to the development of a ‘Uighur alert’ thanks to facial recognition software, I am announcing the immediate termination of my partnership with the company,” Griezmann said in an Instagram post. ___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/Soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports

His buyout clause stands at an untouchable 700 million euros ($828 million), but he could have likely fetched a hefty price if Barcelona had been willing to listen to offers. “We think it would be good for him to finish his career with the club,” Moix said. It fell 203 million euros ($240 million) short, according to the club’s annual financial report presented by Moix last week, due to the coronavirus. Young defender Jean-Claire Todibo was loaned to Benfica for 2 million euros ($2.3 million). According to Moix, it also saved 30 million euros ($35 million euros) in salaries Barcelona would not have to pay this campaign.

Barcelona's Lionel Messi during the Champions League quarterfinal match between FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich at the Luz stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez/Pool)MADRID Lionel Messis surprise decision to leave Barcelona has dealt a blow to the clubs restructuring project even before it began. What might have upset him the most was the decision to get rid of Luis Surez, Messis longtime teammate and friend. With its aging team, Barcelona endured one of its toughest seasons, the first without a title since 2007-08. A lengthy legal batter would further hurt Barcelonas restructuring project, as would Messis departure without any financial compensation.

Barcelona's Lionel Messi during the Champions League quarterfinal match between FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich at the Luz stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. Gerard Piqu says Barcelona "hit rock bottom" in an 8-2 humiliation from Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez/Pool)BARCELONA Lionel Messi has told Barcelona he wants to leave the club after nearly two decades with the Spanish giants. Barcelona said the document sent by Messi referenced a clause allowing him to leave for free at the end of the season. The Spanish season would normally have ended in May but was pushed back because of the coronavirus pandemic.

(AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)MADRID With the Spanish league over, Real Madrid and Barcelona are ready to recharge and regroup as they turn their focus to the Champions League. Madrid won its record 34th league title and first in three years after an impressive run of 10 straight wins following the pandemic break. Now we have to switch off from soccer.Zidane remained confident with the team's chances in the Champions League despite the big first-leg deficit. We took a close look at the situation together and we are all very excited with the Champions League, Setin said. We have good momentum and hopefully it will continue and we can win the Champions League, Atltico midfielder Jorge Koke Resurreccin said.

(AP Photo/Joan Montfort)NYON The Champions League will finish with a 12-day mini-tournament in Lisbon, restarting in August after a five-month suspension caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The unprecedented solution also sees the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul the originally scheduled host for the final pushed back by one year. Both competitions have yet to complete their quarterfinal line-ups with round of 16 games halted. The Champions League had four second-leg games postponed in March at Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus and Manchester City. In the Europa League, only six of eight first-leg games in the round of 16 were played.

A supporter invades the pitch during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Mallorca and FC Barcelona at Son Moix Stadium in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Saturday, June 13, 2020. With virtual crowds, daily matches and lots of testing for the coronavirus, soccer is coming back to Spain. The Spanish league resumes this week more than three months after it was suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Francisco Ubilla)MADRID The Spanish league said Sunday it will file criminal charges against the fan who ran onto the field during Barcelonas match at Mallorca. The Mundo Deportivo sports daily said the fan is of French origin but has lived in Mallorca his whole life.