UEFA is predicting Liverpool will become the first football club to post pre-tax profits exceeding €100 million in their 2017-18 financial accounts.

European football's governing body has produced its club licensing benchmarking report and stated that Liverpool are expected to break a record set by Leicester City in 2017.

Leicester posted net profits of €98m the season after they won the Premier League title.

But Liverpool are expected to surpass that amount in 2018 as their...

A Portuguese man arrested in Hungary on suspicion of extortion and secrecy violations hacked football bodies' documents -- which later appeared on the Football Leaks website -- because he was "outraged" by criminality in the sport, his lawyers said.

The man, named by his lawyers as 30-year-old Rui Pinto, was detained in Hungary on Wednesday on a European arrest warrant filed by Portuguese police who want to extradite him. His lawyers said they would oppose this.

Speaking to Reuters, the lawyers...

Europe's 710 top-tier football clubs pulled in a record €20.11 billion ($22.89 billion) in revenues between them in the 2017 financial year although almost half of that amount went to 30 of them, according to an annual UEFA report.

The Club Licensing Benchmarking report also revealed that gambling and betting firms are the most common source of shirt sponsorship in 10 European leagues and that Paris Saint-Germain is the most expensive place to watch football in Europe.

The report showed that...

Bayern Munich forward Thomas Muller is suspended for both legs of the upcoming Champions League round-of-16 clash against Liverpool, UEFA has confirmed.

Muller was sent off in Bayern's final group match in December when, in attempting to bring down a high ball, his high boot caught Ajax defender Nicolas Tagliafico on the back of the head.

After the match, Muller posted an apology on his Twitter account which read: "I am very sorry for that what happened yesterday! Was not intentionally [sic]. Get...

Jan Vertonghen believes Tottenham will face a very different Borussia Dortmund side to the one they beat twice last season when they take on the Germans in the last 16 of the Champions League.

Spurs, who lost 5-1 on aggregate to Dortmund at the same stage of the Europa League in March 2016, did better against them last term, triumphing 3-1 at home and 2-1 away in the Champions League group stage.

But Vertonghen is expecting a tougher test when the north Londoners meet Lucien Favre's side, who are...