The African Cup of Nations starts in Angola on January 10th, We look at how this could impact on the Premiership title and relegation battles.

The draw for the Europa League took place in Nyon earlier today. 32 teams are still in the draw, made up of the 1st and 2nd placed teams in Europa Leagues groups A – L, and the 8 third-placed teams from the Champions League groups. Find out who got who here…

The Champions League draw took place in Nyon in Switzerland at 11am GMT today. Here’s how it panned out…

In case it had slipped beneath your football radar the Europa League has been steadily progressing over the past two weeks and the group stages have now finally come to a muted end. Find out who’s qualified.

As part of our World Cup coverage we are going to be asking fans around the world what they think of their teams’ chances in the 2010 World Cup now the groups have been drawn. Today two young USA fans give their opinion on their chances in the group that includes England, Algeria and Slovakia.

As part of our World Cup coverage we are going to be asking fans around the world what they think of their teams’ chances in the 2010 World Cup now the groups have been drawn. Our first fan is FC Midtjylland supporter Philip Nilsson, who gives us his opinion of how Denmark will fare in group E against Holland, Cameroon and the Japanese.

Liverpool, Arsenal and Glasgow Rangers all end their Champions League group stage game with disappointing defeats although at least Liverpool fans had the consolation of seeing Fernando Torres return and Alberto Aquilani start his first game.

Although the pre-match talk was of Manchester Uniteds injury problems ahead of their European cup tie with Wolfsburg and the possible inclusion of David Gill’s son Oliver, they had no worries as they disposed of the German champions 1-3 thanks to a hat-trick from Michael Owen to make sure they claimed the top spot in Group B.

It has been a bloody week in Europe for under pressure managers as Gianluca Atzori was sacked by Catania, Markus Babbel at Stuggart and Ronald Koeman at AZ Alkmaar. Read about this and more in our regular review of the action in Serie A, La Liga, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and the Dutch Eredivisie.

Not only has Lionel Messi triumped over Cristiano Ronaldo in the Ballon d’Or, but his Barcelona side also took the bragging rights over their opponents in the Clasico game on Sunday.