After previously assessing the draw, we’re taking another look at all eight World Cup 2022 groups and inspecting the 32 nations involved. This includes how they made it to Qatar, their recent records against the other finalists and their likely routes through the tournament.
Man City have pulled off a coup by capturing Erling Haaland, but he faces a double jeopardy next season. Title winners do not usually feature the top scorer and there is also a Premier League Golden Boot curse on foreign imports in their first campaign in England.
We have looked back at the last three seasons and totted up the number of minutes spent on the bench by outfield players across Europe’s top five leagues, MLS and Belgium’s First Division A. Our infographic reveals the most prominent substitutes in each division.
While European club football has a break over the summer, attention turns to Major League Soccer as the season nears its halfway point and here’s our MLS betting guide. MLS stats can be unpredictable – they rarely follow the same patterns as the big five European leagues.
The Premier League can lay claim to featuring arguably the two best managers in the world, in Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp. Man City supremo Guardiola and Liverpool boss Klopp have shared the last five domestic titles, while being involved in four Champions League finals.
The world’s best golfers are heading to Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma to take part in the 2022 PGA Championship, starting on May 19. This is the second major of the year, following the Masters in April, and everyone is looking for clues over who will win.
With the 2021-22 regular season now over, we’ve taken a look at the all-time statistics to see which NHL records are close to being broken. We’ve excluded the playoffs and focused on six of the most important metrics, to see who is chasing the all-time NHL stats leaders.
Toronto FC made headlines with the news that Italy star Lorenzo Insigne will be joining the club when his current contract at Napoli expires. A European champion at the peak of his abilities, Insigne’s move is challenging the perception that MLS teams cannot attract the world’s top talent.
Team Canada will head to Finland in May as one of the favourites in our 2022 IIHF World Championship preview. Here we’ve broken down how the competition works and what could happen this year.
The group stage draw for soccer’s 2022 World Cup has now been completed. To assess its impact, we have calculated the relative difficulty of each team’s schedule in the Qatar 2022 groups using their three opponents’ current FIFA world ranking points.
The Champions League quarter-finals take place next week and the draw for the semi-finals has already been made so each team knows their potential route to the final in June. Six of the eight remaining teams hail from England and Spain – three each – with one German and one Portuguese side also among the quarter-finalists.
The Canadian Football League returns in June for a full season after a pandemic-shortened schedule in 2021. Here we have taken a look at the competition and what could happen this year.
August 2022 will see the 132nd edition of the world’s second-oldest tennis tournament: the Canadian Open. Here we have looked at the data from its last 20 iterations to predict how the action will unfold.
The Canada men’s soccer team rose to 33rd in the FIFA World Rankings in February 2022, which is their highest-ever placing since the rankings were established 30 years ago in 1992. However, to truly appreciate the significance of the current team’s achievement we can look back further using another system: the World Football Elo Ratings.