Exeter City will host Plymouth Argyle in the first Devon derby for more than two years in October. New Pilgrims boss Tom Cleverley will experience his first derby on Saturday, 25 October after the 2025-26 League One fixtures were released earlier on Thursday. The return game at Home Park is scheduled for Saturday, 11 April...
Wrexham’s first second-tier match for 43 years will be at Southampton on Saturday, 9 August – a day after Birmingham City open the Championship season by hosting Ipswich Town. Leicester City’s return to the second tier begins at home against Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday, 10 August. League One play-off final winners Charlton Athletic mark their...
Champions Liverpool will host Bournemouth on the opening weekend of the 2025-26 Premier League season, with Manchester United playing Arsenal at Old Trafford. Liverpool, who won the league in Arne Slot’s first season in charge, will begin their title defence at Anfield in the curtain-raiser on Friday, 15 August. Newly promoted Sunderland, back in the...
Bengaluru will stage the opening match, involving India, and the final if Pakistan are not involved. The full list of fixtures for the eight-team tournament is still to be announced. Australia are the defending World Cup champions, having beaten England in the final of the previous tournament in New Zealand, delayed until 2022 because of...
Gary Lineker is set to leave the BBC with an announcement expected on Monday. Speculation is mounting the 64-year-old will step down after he presents his final Match of the Day next weekend. Lineker, listed as the highest-paid BBC presenter, had been due to remain at the forefront of the BBC’s coverage of next season’s...
Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course will host a DP World Tour event for the first time as the Scottish Championship returns to the circuit from 7-10 August. The event has been played once before, in October 2020 at Fairmont St Andrews, and will replace the cancelled Czech Masters. Owned by the president of the United...
As the countdown towards Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 continues, fans across England will have the chance to celebrate early as the prestigious trophy will embark on a nationwide tour of the tournament’s eight host locations. The RWC 2025 host location trophy tour will set off from the country’s capital on a journey spanning three...
Lord’s will host the final of the Women’s T20 World Cup on Sunday 5 July next year, organisers have announced. The 12-team tournament will be held across England with Headingley, Old Trafford, Edgbaston, The Oval, the Hampshire Bowl and Bristol’s County Ground also hosting matches. It will begin on Friday, 12 June with the full...
Cardiff: Cam Winnett; Josh Adams, Harri Millard, Ben Thomas, Gabriel Hamer-Webb; Callum Sheedy, Johan Mulder; Danny Southworth, Liam Belcher (capt), Keiron Assiratti, Josh McNally, Teddy Williams, James Botham, Thomas Young, Taulupe Faletau. Replacements: Evan Lloyd, Corey Domachowski, Rhys Litterick, Rory Thornton, Alun Lawrence, Ben Donnell, Aled Davies, Tinus de Beer. Munster: Mike Haley; Calvin Nash,...
Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent Getty Images King Charles will host about 50 veterans at a tea party in the Palace gardens King Charles and Queen Camilla will host a tea party at Buckingham Palace for war veterans as part of commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day. The King and Queen will also...
Diplomats from the UK, France, Germany, Ukraine and the US will hold fresh talks in London on Wednesday aimed at securing a ceasefire in the three-year war between Ukraine and Russia. The talks come amid growing speculation that Russia might be willing to halt its invasion along current front lines in return for significant concessions....
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“The association’s decision to have the foresight to create the role that I’m the custodian for just now, the head of elite game, is that we’ve already started that preparation. “It’s up to us to qualify for the tournament as well, if it’s not automatic, but it’s an inspiration to us all, myself, the full...
The United Kingdom is set to host the 2035 Women’s World Cup after being the only valid bid received by Fifa, the organisation that runs international football. Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland put forward a joint bid in March. Fifa has already stated that the tournament must be in Europe or Africa. There was...
The United Kingdom is set to host the 2035 Women’s World Cup as the sole “valid” bidder for the tournament, Fifa president Gianni Infantino says. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland submitted a joint expression of interest in March to hold the World Cup across the home nations. Under Fifa rotation rules, the tournament must...