Almost everywhere you look across Europe’s most important football leagues,there’s a local storyline worth keeping an eye on this season. Here are the best of them.
Atalanta’s Ademola Lookman scored the first hat-trick in Europa League and UEFA Cup final history to condemn the German champions to their first loss of the season.
The shoey has become as much of an Australian cultural export as Bluey,but that’s no source of national pride.
Bayer Leverkusen have never won Germany’s Bundesliga title before – but under Xabi Alonso,they’re unbeaten in 41 games and in contention for a remarkable treble.
Ajdin Hrustic began World Cup qualifying seemingly as a fill-in. Now,he’ll enter the do-or-die play-off against Peru as Australia’s major goal threat.
FC St Pauli has fiercely remained a sum of its parts,and its culture has lured Australia’s own cult midfielder Jackson Irvine to the club.
Sven Mislintat has made a career out of finding value in places where others don’t bother to look. Alou Kuol could be his next great success story.
The teenager is on the cusp of a “life-changing” move engineered by the same talent-spotter who discovered Robert Lewandowski,Shinji Kagawa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
A Berlin football club with an unusual Australian link was worried it could lose its record for most Bundesliga games without a win.
Listed sports technology outfit Catapult has avoided becoming a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and is ready to tackle the 'new normal' for professional sports.