Arsenal will play in the 2026 Women’s Champions Cup in what is the inaugural edition of the competition, taking place between the end of January and 1 February. The intercontinental club competition will see the six winners of the continental club competition from each of Fifa’s six confederations face other to be crowned world champions....
Next season’s Champions League will include six English Premier League teams instead of the usual four. Newcastle United, who finished fifth in the table, will play in the competition after European football’s governing body Uefa awarded two bonus spots to the domestic leagues which performed best in Europe in 2024-25. Meanwhile, Tottenham – who finished...
Two humanoid robots traded punches while fans watched on, in a competition held in Hangzhou, China, on Sunday. The fight was part of the China Media Group World Robot Competition and featured robots developed by Unitree Robotics. The event included both fighting demonstrations and matches, marking a world-first combat sports event featuring humanoid robots. Read...
Karachi Kings marked the return of the Pakistan Super League from suspension with a 23-run win over Peshawar Zalmi. In the competition’s first game since 7 May, the experienced pair of David Warner and James Vince hit 86 and 72 respectively as Kings made 237-4 after being put into bat. Captain Babar Azam anchored the...
Crystal Palace will face Manchester City in the FA Cup final at Wembley on Saturday. How much of this season’s competition do you remember? See how you get on with our FA Cup quiz. Have fun! You can follow the FA Cup final live across the BBC on Saturday. Watch from 15:25 BST on BBC...
Chelsea’s US-based owners are preparing for a situation in which the Blues qualify for the same European competition as French sister club Strasbourg. Uefa, European football’s governing body, has strict rules regarding multi-club ownership models and it has forced BlueCo, the parent company of both Chelsea and Strasbourg, into a change to allow both clubs...
Manchester City have joined Manchester United in signing up for the inaugural Women’s World Sevens tournament in May. The seven-a-side competition runs between 21-23 May – three days before the Women’s Champions League final – in Estoril, Portugal with a prize money pool of $5m (£3.76m). Manchester United confirmed their involvement last month with manager...
You might be able to explain your “insights into oral chemesthetic perception” to a group of chemistry professors – but can you dance it? Dr. Sulo Roukka from the University of Helsinki can and he’s won a prize to prove it. The Dance your PhD competition was founded in 2008 aims to make complex research...
Mitchell opted to only make three changes from his side’s hammering of Wales in Cardiff to the comfortable win in Ireland last Saturday, with a large majority of his frontline stars, who were involved in last year’s Grand Slam win over France in Bordeaux and WXV1 title triumph, starting. Nine changes for the game against...
BBC/Hungry Bear Media Ltd The finalists: Mus Dumbuya, Amanda Wah, Aneila Afsar and Joe Fishburn Warning: This article contains spoilers The winners of Gladiators 2025 have been crowned after Saturday night’s final on BBC One. Gym owner Amanda Wah and gymnastics coach Joe Fishburn were the victors – beating fellow contestants Aneila Afsar, a supply...
Brentford head coach Thomas Frank has described the Club World Cup as “ridiculous” ahead of its new format launching this summer. The revamped inter-continental tournament, which is switching from a seven-team competition to one consisting of 32 sides, takes place in June. Chelsea, Manchester City and Real Madrid are among those competing in the enlarged...
England began their Group A3 campaign with an underwhelming 1-1 draw in Portugal, but looked closer to their best in their next match as Jess Park scored in a superb 1-0 win at Wembley over reigning world champions Spain. The Lionesses, who will attempt to defend their European title in Switzerland this summer, will play...
In the early years of the competition Uruguay were the leading force, and then came decades of Argentine dominance. But the recent years have belonged exclusively to Brazil. The past six editions have been won by Brazilian clubs, with the country providing both of the finalists in four of those years. This level of domination...
As a player, Iraola spent over a decade at Athletic Bilbao and came up against Guardiola’s Barcelona side on several occasions, saying he “lost many times” against them. Having been so dominant in recent years, City have had a more difficult season comparatively, having not been in the title race for the majority of it....
