Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland all made the headlines in 2022, while Argentina and Real Madrid claimed football's biggest trophies by winning the World Cup and Champions League, respectively, but there are already big storylines brewing for 2023. Some of the game's biggest players will move to new teams, and there's likely to be a change of ownership at two of football's most high-profile clubs.
And although 2023 will be a quiet year on the international front in the men's game -- with the Asian Cup, to be staged in Qatar, the only major tournament on the calendar -- the FIFA Women's World Cup will see its champion crowned in Australia and New Zealand in July and August.