30 best stadiums in the world

The facts and stats that have caught our eye in the world of football this month...

The prospect of an Italian top-flight fixture being played overseas is inching closer

During the past 30 seasons, no club from outside the current top five leagues has won the Champions League… except Porto in 2004. The Portuguese side’s journey to glory remains the Champions League er

Nike Lyberth-Berthelsen, the general secretary of the Greenland Football Association (GBU), gazes lovingly at the new 4G astroturf surface at the Nuuk Stadium for the umpteenth time, a proud grin upon

Tehran, Kabul, Lahore and Mumbai. At this moment, FourFourTwo is further east than all four of them, as we wander around the perimeter of Kairat Almaty’s Central Stadium, ahead of the club’s Champions

Some of the more unusual records to be set in the 2025-26 club season