The stringent licence revisions have caused backlash. Blackburn Women withdrew from the WSL 2 after claiming the financial requirements “can no longer be sustained”. Third-tier club Wolves Women did not apply for a WSL 2 licence as owners were unwilling to move to a full-time model, as is required. Barnsley Women, playing in the fourth...
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....
The 2024-25 Championship season might be over but there are many ways to analyse and reflect on the campaign that has gone before us. Not every club can go up but if there are signs a team is moving in the right direction, it can still be considered good progress – or quite the opposite...
Grassroots football teams in Exeter are being invited to register their interest in using pitches across the city. The City Council is about to allocate pitches and needs to understand the demand for its facilities. Cllr Ruth Williams, Lead Councillor for City Management, said that to ensure the process was fair and equitable, all teams...
Spain beat England 1-0 in the 2023 World Cup final, but England reversed that scoreline to win the last match between the sides, at Wembley in February. And they go into Tuesday’s game with good momentum after an impressive display in their 6-0 win over Portugal on Friday. Aggie Beever-Jones caught the eye with her...
It isn’t just the winner of the tournament that is still to be decided. The race to win the orange and purple caps for top run-scorer and wicket-taker are still very much alive. Top run-scorer 1. Sai Sudharsan (Gujarat Titans) – 679 runs 2. Shubman Gill (Gujarat Titans) – 649 3. Suryakumar Yadav (Mumbai Indians)...
The first spot for next season’s Champions League goes to Tottenham as winners of this season’s second tier competition, the Europa League. The top four teams in the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga all earn Champions League qualification. Three spots are given to teams in Ligue 1, while there are two paces...
In 1967, European champions Real Madrid pipped Barcelona to the league title. Nothing unusual there, but this was a unique season in Spanish football history for one reason – the teams who came up went straight back down. Deportivo la Coruna and Hercules – having won their respective regional second divisions – and Granada –...
Liverpool boss Arne Slot says his side’s 3-2 defeat at Brighton was a “great game of football” despite coming out on the wrong end of the result. Read full article at source...
As it turned out, Tottenham could not keep Conte happy. He left by mutual consent in March 2023 after calling his players “selfish” and criticising the culture of the club. They finished eighth, and lost in the Champions League last 16 to Milan. There were big changes the following summer as in came Celtic manager...
Teams taking part in the Ten Tors Challenge are approaching the finish line on the final day of the “phenomenal” event. Thousands of teenagers from across the south west of England and beyond have been walking either 35, 45, or 55 miles (56, 72 or 88km) across Dartmoor. The annual challenge, organised by the British...
Zhara Simpson BBC News, South West BBC Kirsty Hudson and her family said they felt proud of son Ben for taking on the Jubilee Challenge Family and friends said they felt proud of their loved ones as they watched them cross the finish line of the Jubilee Challenge on Saturday. Organisers said the Jubilee Challenge,...
Thousands of teenagers are starting the 63rd Ten Tors Challenge on Dartmoor. The annual challenge, organised by the British Army’s Headquarters South West, sees teams navigate routes across the northern half of Dartmoor in under two days. It is usually attempted by about 2,400 teenagers in 400 teams of six, with routes ranging between 35...
Fifa has announced that the Women’s World Cup will be expanded from 32 to 48 teams from the 2031 tournament. The Fifa Council voted unanimously for the changes that will be in place for 2035 edition, due to be hosted in the United Kingdom. As a result of the increase in teams, the competition will...
BBC Sport’s Simon Stone discusses Manchester United’s current performance with Besiktas manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who previously managed the struggling Premier League side from 2018 to 2021. READ MORE: ‘Nobody expected this’ – was win in Bilbao best of Amorim’s Man Utd reign? Read full article at source...