Football

All Whites striker Chris Wood won't play in the second game against China in Wellington.

Wrexham's Hollywood owners have secured the A-list signing of former Manchester United and England goalkeeper Ben Foster until the end of the English football season.

All Whites defender Tommy Smith didn't get to celebrate his 50th international the way he would have liked.

Crystal Palace have reappointed Roy Hodgson as manager until the end of the Premier League season.

Defending champions Real Madrid will play 2021 winners Chelsea in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

The Wellington Phoenix have fallen to their biggest defeat of the men's A-League season.

Crystal Palace have sacked manager Patrick Vieira after 20 months in charge with the south London club three points above the Premier League relegation zone.

Visit Saudi will not be a sponsor at the women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand later this year.

Fifa has switched the format for the expanded 2026 World Cup back to four-team groups.

Gary Lineker will return to present the BBC's Match of the Day after he was taken off air following an impartiality row in which he criticised the government's new asylum policy.

The Wellington Phoenix have produced the upset of the women's A-League season.

Wellington Phoenix defender Callan Elliot has received his first call up to the All Whites squad for this month's home games against China.

FIFA General Secretary Fatma Samoura applauded the eight nations who are debuting at the World Cup in celebration of International Women's Day.

UEFA will refund Liverpool fans who attended last year's Champions League final after an independent report said they were responsible for the chaos outside the stadium.

Three Wellington Phoenix regulars will be moving on at the end of the current men's A-League season.

Just Fontaine, who holds the record for the most goals scored at a single World Cup, has died at the age of 89.

The former All Whites midfielder Grant Turner who was part of the first New Zealand team to reach the World Cup finals in Spain in 1982 has died.

Manchester City knocked Arsenal off their Premier League perch with a 3-1 victory at The Emirates Stadium.