The Scottish FA is updating its gender policy in order to ban transgender women competing in women’s football, BBC Scotland has learned. From next season, only those born biologically female will be allowed to take part in competitive matches in the women’s game. The current policy allows transgender women to compete in their affirmed gender...
With more than 275,000 tickets already sold, excitement continues to build for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 and fans will now have another opportunity to secure more tickets in May. As the tournament celebrates the 100 days to go milestone on Wednesday, 14 May, fans can secure their place at the tournament, with more tickets...
It has been a long journey to the final for Arsenal. From round one of qualifying against Rangers back in September to now, they have played in 14 Champions League matches this season. No team has ever done so in this format. With Chelsea looking set to lift the Women’s Super League title for a...
Jane Ross scored a hat-trick as holders Rangers beat Aberdeen 5-0 to set up a Women’s Scottish Cup final meeting with Glasgow City on 25 May. Rangers bettered City’s 4-0 semi-final defeat of Motherwell though it was not quite the commanding performance the score suggested. Rio Hardy and Lizzie Arnot joined Ross on the scoresheet....
Laura Kaminski led the Eagles to the top flight as champions in 2024, but with the club sitting at the foot of the WSL table in this difficult campaign, she was sacked in February and replaced by Smerud. When the Norwegian took charge, he said: “My mission is quite clear. Short-term, it’s to stay in...
Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa surged to victory in a world record for a women’s only field in the London Marathon. The Olympic silver medallist burst clear of 2021 winner Joyciline Jepkosgei of Kenya with 10km to go before crossing the line in two hours 15 minutes and 50 seconds. Assefa beat the previous record, set by...
The clock goes red and France need a score to win the Women’s Six Nations Grand Slam at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham. That was not in the script. England had cruised past their competition leading up the Grand Slam decider, scoring 33 tries in four comfortable wins. Les Bleues came off the back of a scare...
England: Sing; Dow, Jones, Heard, MacDonald; Harrison, Hunt; Botterman, Atkin-Davies, Muir, Talling, Ward, Aldcroft (capt), Feaunati, Matthews. Replacements: Cokayne, Clifford, Bern, Galligan, Burton, L Packer, Aitchison, Rowland. France: Bourgeois; Grisez, M Menager, Vernier, Arbwy; Arbez, Bourdon; Brosseau, Bigot, Khalfaoui, M Feleu (capt), Fall-Raclot, Escudero, Champon, T Feleu. Replacements: Riffonneau, Mwayembe, Bernadou, Zago, Berthoumieu, Maka, Chambon,...
Glasgow City booked their place in the Women’s Scottish Cup final by overcoming Motherwell’s initial stubbornness to win 4-0 at Hampden. Sofia Maatta and Nicole Kozlova scored in the first half and Katie Lockwood added two more after the break as the nine-time winners booked a return to the national stadium to face either holders...
It wasn’t so long ago that Arsenal put five goals past Lyon on French soil. Playing under Jonas Eidevall – before Slegers had joined as his assistant manager – the Gunners outclassed the reigning champions in the group stage in 2022. Caitlin Foord, Frida Maanum and Beth Mead, who all started for Slegers on Saturday,...
England: Sing; Dow, Jones, Heard, MacDonald; Harrison, Hunt; Botterman, Atkin-Davies, Muir, Talling, Ward, Aldcroft (capt), Feaunati, Matthews. Replacements: Cokayne, Clifford, Bern, Galligan, Burton, L Packer, Aitchison, Rowland. France: Bourgeois; Grisez, M Menager, Vernier, Arbwy; Arbez, Bourdon; Brosseau, Bigot, Khalfaoui, M Feleu (capt), Fall-Raclot, Escudero, Champon, T Feleu. Replacements: Riffonneau, Mwayembe, Bernadou, Zago, Berthoumieu, Maka, Chambon,...
Durham, Somerset and Lancashire all won in the One-Day Cup as the revamped top flight of the women’s domestic season got under way. Meanwhile a dramatic game at Edgbaston saw Warwickshire tie with Hampshire following a last-ball run out for the Bears. Another match that went down to the final delivery was between Surrey and...
Miedema’s Manchester City have been immersed in the busy schedule of late, playing eight matches in 29 days throughout March as they competed in four competitions. She featured in all eight before sustaining her injury during the Netherlands’ Women’s Nations League match with Austria on 8 April, having also played for the national side four...
A new era in women’s cricket in England begins this week with the opening top-tier fixtures of the One-Day Cup campaign on Wednesday. The domestic game has been in something of a state of flux in recent years, but the 2025 season will take on a new look which the ECB hope will last for...
Wubben-Moy – a lifelong Arsenal fan – made her senior debut in 2015 at the age of 16 after coming through the club’s academy. She spent time in the United States with the North Carolina Tar Heels before returning to Arsenal in 2020, and has made 143 senior appearances for the Gunners. She has won...