The football headlines in Germany were once again dominated by fan violence on Monday, after supporters at a cup match involving Berlin’s Hertha BSC forced the game to be suspended twice.
Germany's hopes of a seventh successive European women's title were shattered on Sunday when second-half headers by Nadia Nadim and Theresa Nielsen gave Denmark a shock 2-1 victory in the quarter-finals in Rotterdam.
Babett Peter's second-half penalty edged defending champions Germany to a 2-1 victory over 10-woman Italy at the women's Euro tournament in the Netherlands on Friday.
Swedish captain Lotta Schelin says her team are hungry to avenge last year's Olympic final loss when they face Germany at the women's Euro championships in the Netherlands on Monday.
World champions Germany will pit an inexperienced line-up against Australia in their Confederations Cup opener on Monday with striker Timo Werner anticipating a robust challenge from the Socceroos.
When some of their best players received a deportation notice to return to Afghanistan, a boys' football team in Hesse decided to step up to help them stay with their newfound "family".
A 38-year-old German policewoman will next season become the first female referee in Europe's top leagues after she was promoted to officiate in the Bundesliga on Friday.
Bayern Munich accused Spanish police of "violent attacks" on their supporters during the Champions League defeat at Real Madrid and filed a complaint with UEFA on Wednesday.
German prosecutors are examining a third
claim of responsibility for blasts that rocked Borussia Dortmund's team bus it
was reported Saturday, but no new suspects have emerged.
Federal prosecutors said on Thursday that there is no evidence that the suspect temporarily detained participated in the Borussia Dortmund attack on Tuesday, German media report.
Borussia Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel accused UEFA of treating the bomb attack on their team bus as if a "beer can" had been thrown and claimed they were informed by text message that they would have to play their Champions League game against Monaco.
Numerous Borussia Dortmund football fans offered up their homes for the AS Monaco fans who were stranded after an explosive attack against the home team postponed the planned match.
Three explosions left one Borussia Dortmund player injured in what police believe to be a targeted attack on Tuesday, resulting in a planned Champions League match being postponed.
Three explosions rocked the Borussia Dortmund bus, injuring Spanish international Marc Bartra, as the German team headed for a Champions League game against Monaco on Tuesday, police said.
A sports club is mourning the deaths of two amateur sportsmen who suffered heart attacks on successive days, leaving team-mates wondering if the club is cursed.
A prominent English supporters group has hit out at the unsavoury chanting of some travelling fans during the national side's 1-0 loss away to Germany in their friendly international.
English fans played an impromptu football game in the Old Market Square in Dortmund on Tuesday - and they went ballistic when one of them scored a goal.
Fans of St Pauli football club have caused shock by unfurling a banner which mocked the victims of the firebombing of Dresden during the Second World War.
On Saturday fans of RB Leipzig football club, including children, were violently attacked in Dortmund. It was the worst aggression yet against the Bundesliga's youngest - and most hated - club.
In scenes which have shocked German football, fans of Borussia Dortmund attacked opposition supporters and police with stones at the weekend, while banners were held up in the stadium inciting violence and murder.
