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Girona Futbol Club have been in existence for 93 years, and it took all 93 of them to see one of their players earn a call-up for the Spani...

It’s a record that hasn’t changed hands since December 1993; these are the Premier League’s all-time leading goalscorers…1. Alan Sh...

Bruno Fernandes and Bernardo Silva have both hinted at wanting to play alongside João Neves at club level, but what sort of player is the r...

We’re now seven games into the 2023-24 English WSL season, but what have we learned so far? We look at some of the data storylines from the...

Part of The Analyst’s FCS series called “By the Numbers,” which analyzes data to help tell the story of FCS college football.The “Road...

PSV have absolutely dominated the Dutch Eredivisie so far. They’ve scored more goals than anyone else, conceded the fewest and have won all...

Find all the Brazil vs Argentina stats from Opta, as the two sides clash in their CONMEBOL 2026 World Cup qualifier at the Maracanã in Rio...

Last week, it was reported by Shams Charania of The Athletic that guard Zach LaVine and the Chicago Bulls front office were willing to expl...

Stat, Viz, Quiz is the weekly Opta Analyst newsletter. Our latest edition includes numbers on a lack of managerial departures, France’s 14-...

Stats Perform has announced 30 finalists for the 2023 Walter Payton Award, given annually to the national offensive player of the year in D...

Stats Perform has announced 30 finalists for the 2023 Buck Buchanan Award, given annually to the national defensive player of the year in D...

With 12 games played and a two-horse title race developing, what will happen in Italy’s top flight from here? We look again at all the key...

We look ahead to the CONMEBOL 2026 World Cup qualifier at the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro with our Brazil vs Argentina prediction and previe...

With the table starting to take shape now we’re a third of the way through the season, we looked at the latest Championship predictions for...

This holiday season, we’re giving thanks for the waiver wire.We didn’t even have time to fully assimilate the injury news from Thursday...

Stats Perform has announced 20 finalists for the 2023 Eddie Robinson Award, which is given annually to the national coach of the year in Di...

Stats Perform has announced 22 finalists for the 2023 Jerry Rice Award, which honors the national freshman of the year in Division I FCS co...

For the next trophy the Montana Grizzlies hope to raise …After collecting the Big Sky Conference championship and the Great Divide riva...

We asked the Opta supercomputer to predict how the Premier League pan out in 2023-24 prior to the season and then in September; with 12 rou...

Before the season started, the Opta supercomputer predicted how the Premier League would pan out in 2023-24; here, after 12 rounds of match...

Bryant’s Zevi Eckhaus, Abilene Christian’s Cirby Coheley, Northern Iowa’s Matthew Cook and Idaho’s Jack Layne were selected Monday as the F...

The South Dakota State Invitational, er, FCS playoff field was announced on Sunday, and no matter how the 24-team pairings were sliced, the...

The FCS playoff bracket looked quite different Saturday night than it did going into a wild, impactful final day of the regular season....

Results in the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll, presented by FedEx Ground, during Week 12 of the college football season:X-1. South Dakot...

Monday’s showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles might be the most anticipated regular-season game of the NFL s...