HOT: This Weekend On Goal.com: Your In-Depth Guide To Our LIVE Coverage And In-Depth Analysis

Welcome to Goal.com for another weekend of football action from right across the globe. With readers in virtually every country on earth, we’re proud to be the world’s foremost football community. And as part of our mission to bring you the best coverage around, we’re happy to bring you a guide to this weekend on Goal.com.

Below you can get your one-stop guide to the weekend’s key matches around the world, combined with links out to dedicated pages to study each league in more depth. From there you can drill down to an individual match, team, player – anything you want. But for a top-down view of the best the footballing world has to offer, you’re in the right place…

The Competitions

Club football takes a back seat…

European Championship Qualifiers: For the first time since the World Cup the heavyweight European countries are back in action. This is the first tenative step towards Poland and Ukraine for Euro 2012, and we have an in-depth preview series just waiting for you. Click the link to find out more.

Each of the nine groups has its charms – and its heavyweights. Germany travel to Belgium on matchday one in Group A, while Russia have a relatively simple visit to Andorra in B.

Moving on to C, action’s already started with Estonia having beaten the Faroes back in July, but it’s now up to the Baltic side to face Italy, still reeling from their disastrous 2010 World Cup.

Perhaps most fascinating of all is Group D, where Laurent Blanc’s new-look France welcome relative underachievers Belarus to Paris. Group E, meanwhile, sees the Netherlands look to overcome the disappointment of their World Cup final defeat: a visit to San Marino usually helps in cases like this.

Croatia travel to Latvia in Group F, while England begin their Group G campaign with a home game against Bulgaria in a group that also has Switzerland, albeit on a rest week.

In Group H Portugal start off with a home game against Cyprus, while World Champions Spain travel to Liechtenstein to start their own campaign.

We’ll have previews, reports, stats and more for all the matches, and as always you can count on following the best of the matches LIVE right here on Goal.com.

Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers: Meanwhile across the continent of Africa there’s no end of action, either. Just like the Euros, The same goes for the continent of Africa. An exhausting number of matches – and exhaustive coverage.

The vast majority of teams will be playing their first qualifiers of the new campaign, chief among them the World Cup heroes of Ghana, who play in Swaziland this Sunday.

Nigeria start at home against Madagascar on Friday, Algeria meet Tanzania, Morocco welcome the Central African Republic, and Cameroon travel to Mauritius.