Soccer

BRIGHTON, England (AP) — Premier League club Brighton posted an after-tax profit of 122.8 million pounds ($154.4 million) for the 2022-23 season on Tuesday. That figure represented a jump from 24.1 million pounds ($30.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United defenders Lisandro Martinez and Victor Lindelof have been ruled out of action for at least a month because of injuries, the club said Tuesday.

Count the Vancouver Whitecaps among those watching Alphonso Davies' future with Bayern Munich with interest.

Midfielder Quinn and midfielder/forward Olivia Smith have dropped out of Canada's squad for the SheBelieves Cup due to injuries sustained at their clubs. They have been replaced by Emma Regan and Marie-Yasmine Alidou.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Ajax's calamitous season worsened when the Amsterdam club suspended new CEO Alex Kroes on Tuesday and said it intends to fire him on suspicion of insider trading in the club's shares.

ROME (AP) — Inter Milan became the second team in Serie A history to score in the season’s first 30 games when it beat Empoli 2-0 and edged closer to the title on Monday. Only Juventus in the 2013-14 campaign scored in its first 30 games.

MADRID (AP) — Atletico Madrid scored early and late to beat Villareal 2-1 in an entertaining Spanish league game and snap a two-game losing streak on Monday.

BERLIN (AP) — The German soccer federation and Adidas have stopped the sale of Germany jerseys with the number 44 because of a resemblance to the logo of the Nazi Party’s notorious SS paramilitary units.

BERLIN (AP) — One of Germany’s most exciting players isn’t even playing in the Bundesliga. Nuremberg teenager Can Uzun has 15 goals in the second division after scoring twice against Hertha Berlin this weekend.

PARIS (AP) — Leader Paris Saint-Germain gave Marseille a lesson in clinical soccer and beat its bitter rival 2-0 in the French league's “Le Classique” on Sunday despite playing with 10 men for more than half the match.