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Atletico Madrid made sure of at least a third-placed finish in La Liga and secured a berth in the Champions League group stages for next season with a 3-1 win away to struggling Celta Vigo on Wednesday. Diego Costa, Juanfran and Radamel Falcao netted in the second half to put the 2010 and 2012 Europa League winners back in Europe's elite club competition for the first time in three years. Atletico climbed on to 72 points with three games left to play, 14 points ahead of fourth-placed Real ...

Napoli qualified for the Champions League group stage by winning 3-0 at Bologna on Wednesday and two goals from Mario Balotelli kept AC Milan on course for the qualifying round with a 4-0 victory at Pescara. Juventus, crowned Serie A champions on Sunday, won 1-0 at Atalanta in a match interrupted for 10 minutes in the first half as rival fans aimed fireworks at each other. Inter Milan's accident-prone season continued as midfielder Ricardo Alvarez produced a bizarre penalty miss while ...

Karnataka went down to West Bengal 0-1 in their opening Group D quarterfinal league match in the 67th National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium here on Saturday. Navin Hela scored the winner in the 30th minute.

Isfahan, April 30 (QNA) - Sepahan ended their 2013 AFC Champions League campaign on a positive note as goals by Amid Jahanalian, Mohammad Gholami and Mohammad Reza Khalatbari led the three-time Iranian champions to a 3-1 victory over Al Gharafa of ...

Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia defeated Iran's Esteghlal 1-0 in Group D in the 2013 AFC Champions League.In the match held at Tehran Azadi stadium Tuesday, Nawaf Al-Abid scored the only goal for the visitors 11 minutes before half-time, reports Xinhua.In another ...

Iran's Esteghlal beat Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia 2-1 in Group D of the 2013 AFC Champions League.In the match held at Riyadh Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium Wednesday, two goals by the visitors in the final 10 minutes helped them come from behind and sneak past ...

Defending champions Pune FC will be looking for their second consecutive win when they take on Salgaocar in their Group A match of the Under-20 I-League football encounter at the JRD Stadium here Thursday.While the Goans will be playing their first match, ...

This was after they were handed a tough draw in Cairo yesterday, being drawn in group A. Al Ahly are the defending champions and record-holding seven-time winners of the continent's top club prize. Arch-rivals Zamalek have won it five times. AC ...

The two Egyptian giants were drawn into the same group for the CAF Champions League Print Email A member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) shows the name of Egypt's Al-Ahly football team during the CAF Champions League draw in Cairo ...