Sport and Leisure/Sport 2025

January

Jan 2

PDC World Darts Championship semi-finals – Littler bt Bunting, Van Gerwen bt Dobey

Jan 3

PDC final – Littler bt Van Gerwen

Jan 5

United Cup final (Sydney) – USA (Gauff and Fritz) bt Poland (Swiatek and Hurkacz)

Ilona Maher makes her debut for Bristol Bears Women

Jan 6

Hideki Matsuyama sets a new PGA Tour record score for 72 holes of 35 under par in winning the event at The Sentry in Hawaii

Four Hills Tournament – Daniel Tschofenig (Austria)

Jan 7

Tomorrow's Golf League (TGL) starts at the SoFi Center in Florida. Indoor golf league created by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy

Jan 9

Graham Potter replaces Julen Lopetegui as manager of West Ham

David Moyes replaces Sean Dyche as manager of Everton

Neil Robertson replaces Ronne O’Sullivan for the Masters

Jan 11

FA Cup third round –Man City 8 (James McAtee 3) Salford 0

Jan 12

FA Cup third round – Spurs bt Tamworth

Jan 13

Former Scotland rugby union captain Peter Brown dies

Jan 13

Australian Open first round – Jacob Fearnley bt Nick Kyrgios

Novak Djokovic is coached by Andy Murray for the first time

Tony Book dies

Jan 16

Amad Diallo hat-trick for Man Utd against Southampton

Jan 17

Australian Open third round – Alexander Zverev bt Jacob Fearnley

Denis Law dies

Jan 18

Australian Open third round – Swiatek bt Radacanu

Justin Kluivert hat-trick for Bournemouth against Newcastle

Masters semi-finals – Murphy bt Allen, Kyren Wilson bt Trump

Sean Murphy makes a 147 break

Jan 19

Australian Open third round – Alcaraz bt Draper

Investec Champions Cup – Toulouse 80 Leicester 12

Masters final – Murphy bt Wilson

Dubai Desert Classic – Tyrell Hatton

Jan 20

International Tennis Federation World Champions. Men’s – Sinner. Women’s –  Swiatek

Jan 21

Australian Open quarter-final – Djokovic bt Alcaraz

Longines World’s Best Racehorse – City of Troy and Laurel River

Jan 23

Australian Open women’s semi-finals – Sabalenka bt Badosa, Keys bt Swiatek

Jan 24

Australian Open men’s semi-finals – Zverev bt Djokovic, Sinner bt Shelton

Mixed doubles final – Peers and Gadecki bt Smith and Birrell

Wheelchair men’s doubles – Hewett and Reid

Quad Wheelchair men’s doubles – Lapthorne and Schroder

Jan 25

Australian Open women’s final – Keys bt Sabalenka

Men’s doubles final – Patten and Heliovaara bt Bolelli and Vavassori

Wheelchair men’s singles – Hewett

Dango Outarra hat-trick for Bournemouth against Nottingham Forest

World Indoor Bowls Championship. Men’s – Jason Banks. Women’s – Julie Forrest

Pegasus World Cup – White Abarrio

Jan 26

Australian Open men’s final – Sinner bt Zverev

Women’s doubles final – Siniakova and Townsend bt Hsieh and Ostapenko

AFC Championship Game – Kansas City Chiefs bt Buffalo Bills

NFC Championship Game – Philadelphia Eagles bt Washington Commanders

British Basketball League (BBL) Trophy final – Newcastle Eagles bt Bristol Flyers

WBBL Trophy final – Caledonia Gladiators bt Oaklands Wolves

Naomi Girma moves from San Diego Wave to Chelsea for $1.1 million, breaking the world record for a women's soccer transfer

Jan 27

Big Bash League final – Hobart Hurricanes bt Sydney Thunder. First title. Mitchell Owen hit a century off 39 balls

Jan 28

ICC Cricketer of the Year awards –

Men's Cricketer of the Year (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy) – Jasprit Bumrah

Men's Test Cricketer of the Year – Jasprit Bumrah

Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year – Azmatullah Omarzai (Afghanistan)

Men's T20 Cricketer of the Year – Arshdeep Singh

Women’s Cricketer of the Year (Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy) – Melie Kerr

Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year – Smriti Mandhana

Women's T20 Cricketer of the Year – Melie Kerr

Jan 29

Steve Smith passes the 10,000-run mark in Test cricket

Morgan Rogers hat-trick for Aston Villa against Celtic

Jan 31

Six Nations captains and coaches –

England – Maro Itoje and Steve Borthwick

Wales – Jac Morgan and Warren Gatland

Ireland – Caelan Doris and Simon Easterby

Scotland – Rory Darge and Finn Russell (co-captains) and Gregor Townsend

France – Antoine Dupont and Fabien Galthie

Italy – Michele Lamaro and Gonzalo Quesada

Simon Easterby was named as the interim head coach of the Ireland team while Andy Farrell is in charge of the British & Irish Lions for their tour to Australia

Rory Darge and Finn Russell were named as co-captains of the Scotland team, after original captain Sione Tuipulotu was ruled out of the competition due to injury

France 43 Wales 0. Romaine Ntamack sent off

Six Nations uses twenty-minute red cards for the first time

Jos Buttler criticises India's use of pace bowler Harshit Rana as a concussion substitute in the fourth T20 international, calling the change "not a like-for-like replacement"

February

Feb 1

Women's Ashes: One-off Test (Melbourne) England 170 & 148 Australia 440 (Sutherland 163, Mooney 106) Australia won by an innings and 122 runs

Australia win series 16-0

Nottingham Forest 7 (Wood 3) Brighton 0

Scotland 31 Italy 19. Hat-trick for Huw Jones

Ireland 27 England 22. Cadan Murley scores a try for England on debut

Leeds 7 Cardiff 0

Irish Gold Cup – Galopin des Champs

Feb 2

Fifth T20 international – India 247-9 (Abhishek Sharma 135) England 97. India won by 150 runs

India win series 4-1

German Masters snooker final – Kyren Wilson bt Hawkins

World Masters darts final – Humphries bt Clayton

Irish Champion Hurdle – State Man

Luka Doncic moves from Dallas Mavericks to Los Angeles Lakers. Anthony Davies is traded to the Mavericks in exchange for Doncic

Feb 3

Transfer deadline day –

Ben Chilwell moves from Chelsea to Crystal Palace on loan

Mathys Tel moves from Bayern Munich to Tottenham on loan

Nico Gonzalez moves from Porto to Man City for £50 million

Marcus Rashford moves from Man Utd to Aston Villa on loan

Marco Asensio moves from Paris St-Germain to Aston Villa on loan

Joao Felix moves from Chelsea to AC Milan on loan

Feb 5

EFL Cup semi-final – Newcastle bt Arsenal

Feb 6

EFL Cup semi-final – Liverpool bt Spurs

Premier League starts in Belfast. Chris Dobey and Stephen Bunting replace Michael Smith and Peter Wright

Mark Hughes is appointed manager of Carlisle Utd

Feb 7

NFL MVP – Josh Allen (Buffalo Bills)

Feb 8

Italy 22 Wales 15

England 26 France 25. Winning try scored by Elliot Daly

Feb 9

FA Cup 4th round – Plymouth 1 (Ryan Hardie) Liverpool 0

Scottish Cup 5th round – Rangers 0 Queen’s Park 1

Scotland 18 Ireland 32

Super Bowl LIX – Philadelphia Eagles 40 Kansas City Chiefs 22

MVP – Jalen Hurts

Game played at Superdome, New Orleans

Half time show headlined by Kendrick Lamar

Feb 11

Warran Gatland leaves as head coach of Wales. Matt Sherratt takes over as interim head coach

Feb 12

European Track Cycling Championships start in Belgium

The last Merseyside derby at Goodison Park finishes 2-2. James Tarkowski scores last-minute equaliser for Everton

Feb 13

Leigh bt Wigan with golden point after the first 0-0 draw in Super League history

Feb 14

Men’s individual pursuit – Josh Charlton

Feb 15

Women’s individual pursuit – Anna Morris, who broke the world record twice in a day

Omar Marmoush hat-trick for Man City against Newcastle

Jannik Sinner accepts a three-month ban from tennis after reaching a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency over his two positive drugs tests last year

St Helens 82 Salford 0

Feb 16

Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo becomes the first person to run a half marathon below 57 minutes

European Track Cycling Championships end. Netherlands topped the medal table

Welsh Open final – Selby bt Maguire

Irish jockey Michael O’Sullivan dies

Feb 17

First test event at Everton’s new stadium. First goal scored by Harrison Rimmer for Wigan under-18s

Feb 18

Champions League Knockout Round Play-offs – Bayern Munich bt Celtic

Feb 19

Champions League Knockout Round Play-offs – Mbappe hat-trick for Real Madrid against Man City

Feb 22

Wales 18 Ireland 27. Garry Ringrose receives a 20-minute red card

England 16 Scotland 15. Finn Russell misses a last-minute conversion

ICC Champions Trophy – England 351-8 (Duckett 165) Australia 356-5 (Inglis 120)

World Seniors Darts Championship final – Ross Montgomery bt Graham Usher

Dmitry Bivol bt Artur Beterbiev to win the undisputed light-heavyweight world title

Saudi Cup – Forever Young

Feb 23

Mirra Andreeva becomes the youngest player to claim a WTA 1000 title after the 17-year-old won the Dubai Tennis Championships

Italy 24 France 73. A championship record of 14 tries were scored in the match

Philippe Clement is sacked as manager of Rangers

Mikaela Shiffrin wins 100th Alpine skiing World Cup race

Feb 26

ICC Champions Trophy – Afghanistan 325-7 (Ibrahim Zadran 177) England 317 (Root 120)

March

Mar 1

ICC Champions Trophy – England 179 South Africa 181-3

Joss Buttler resigns as captain of England

Wigan bt Warrington. Match played in Las Vegas, in first-ever Super League match played outside the UK

Australia Jillaroos 90 Great Britain Lionesses 4. Match played in Las Vegas

World Open final – John Higgins bt Joe O’Connor

Mar 2

UK Open darts final – Littler bt Wade

HSBC Women’s World Championship – Lydia Ko

Mar 4

ICC Champions Trophy semi-final – India bt Australia

Champions League round of 16 – PSV Eindhoven 1 Arsenal 7

LeBron James becomes the first player in NBA history to score 50,000 combined points (regular season and postseason)

Mar 5

ICC Champions Trophy semi-final – New Zealand bt South Africa

Mar 6             

Fred Stolle dies

European Indoor Athletics Championships start in Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Mar 7

Lauren Price bt Natasha Jonas to unify the welterweight division

Mar 8

Ireland 27 France 42. Damian Penaud scores his 38th international try, to become France's joint top try scorer in test history (tied with Serge Blanco)

Scotland 35 Wales 29

Men’s 60m – Jeremiah Azu

Mar 9

England 47 Italy 24. 100th Test cap for Jamie George

World Grand Prix final – Robertson 10 Bingham 0

ICC Champions Trophy final (Dubai) – India bt New Zealand

Player of the Series – Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand)

Men’s 3000m – Jakob Ingebritsen. Silver – George Mills

Women’s 3000m – Sarah Healy (Ireland). Silver – Melissa Courtney-Bryant

Mar 11

Champion Hurdle – Golden Ace (Lorcan Williams), trained by Jeremy Scott. 2^nd Burdett Road 3^rd Winter Fog (150-1)

Supreme Novices Hurdle is renamed as a tribute to jockey Michael O'Sullivan

Champions League round of 16 – Paris St-Germain bt Liverpool

Foster and Partners to design new Man Utd stadium

Mar 12

Queen Mother Champion Chase – Marine Nationale

Mar 13

Stayers’ Hurdle – Bob Olinger

Ryanair Chase – Fact to File

Mar 14

Gold Cup – Inothewayurthinkin (Mark Walsh), trained by Gavin Cromwell. 2^nd Galopin des Champs 3^rd Gentlemansgame. Corbetts Cross suffered a fatal injury after a fall

Prestbury Cup – Ireland bt GB

Leading Jockey – Paul Townend

Leading Trainer – Willie Mullins

Mar 15

Italy 17 Ireland 22. Hat-trick for Dan Sheehan

Wales 14 England 68. Tommy Freeman scored in all five games. Two tries on debut for Henry Pollock

France 35 Scotland 16. Louis Bielle-Biarrey scored in all five games

Thomas Ramos becomes France's all-time top test points scorer, overtaking the record of 436 held by Frederic Michalak

Six Nations final table – France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Wales

Leading points scorer – Thomas Ramos (71)

Leading try scorer – Louis Bielle-Biarrey (8)

Player of the tournament – Louis Bielle-Biarrey

The Six Nations Championship concluded with 829 points and 108 tries scored across 15 matches – both new tournament records

Women’s League Cup final – Chelsea bt Man City

Women’s Premier League final – Mumbai Indians bt Delhi Capitals

Mar 16

EFL Cup final – Newcastle 2 (Burn, Isak) Liverpool 1 (Chiesa). Newcastle win first major trophy since 1969 Fairs Cup and first domestic silverware since 1955 FA Cup

Premiership Women's Rugby final – Gloucester-Hartpury bt Saracens

Premiership Rugby Cup final – Bath bt Exeter

Formula 1 teams –

Red Bull – Max Verstappen, Liam Lawson

McLaren – Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri

Ferrari – Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes – George Russell, Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Italy)

Aston Martin – Fernando Alonso, Lance Stroll

Alpine – Pierre Gasly, Jack Doohan (Australia)

Racing Bulls – Yuki Tsunoda, Isack Hadjar (France)

Haas – Esteban Ocon, Oliver Bearman

Williams – Carlos Sainz, Alexander Albon

Sauber – Nico Hulkenberg, Gabriel Bortoleto (Brazil)

Australian GP – Norris, Verstappen, Russell. 5^th Antonelli. 10^th Hamilton

Indian Wells women’s final – Andreeva bt Sabalenka

Indian Wells men’s final – Draper bt Rune

The Players Championship – McIlroy bt J.J. Spaun in a play-off

Mar 20

Eddie Jordan dies

Kirsty Coventry is elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee. 2^nd Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr 3^rd Sebastian Coe

Mar 21

World Indoor Athletics Championships start in Nanjing

Men’s 60m – Azu

England 2 (Lewis-Skelly, Kane) Albania 0

First game as England manager for Thomas Tuchel. Debuts for Myles Lewis-Skelly and Dan Burn

Mar 22

George Foreman dies

Women’s 400m – Amber Anning

Jon Lewis sacked as coach and Heather Knight sacked as captain of England women’s cricket team

Sprint race at Chinese GP won by Lewis Hamilton

Oscar Piastri takes pole position for the first time for the Chinese GP

Mar 23

Chinese GP – Piastri, Norris, Russell

Men’s 1500m – Ingebrigtsen. Silver – Neil Gourley

Women’s 1500m. Bronze – Georgia Hunter Bell

USA topped the medal table

Players Championship final – Kyren Wilson bt Trump

Mar 24

Morgan Rogers debut for England against Latvia. First England goal for Eberechi Eze

Mar 25

TGL final – Atlanta Drive GC bt New York GC

Mar 26

Liam Lawson swaps places with Japanese driver Yuki Tsunoda and return to Red Bull's second team, Racing Bulls, after being dropped by Red Bull after two races

Mar 27

Peter Lever dies

Alpine Ski World Cup –

Men’s overall and downhill – Marco Odermatt

Women’s overall and downhill – Federica Brignone

Mar 29

Miami Open women’s final – Sabalenka bt Pegula

Miami Open men’s doubles final – Arevalo and Pavic bt Cash and Glasspool

World Figure Skating Championships (Boston) –

Men – Ilia Malinin (USA)

Women – Aylsa Liu (USA)

Pairs – Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara (Japan)

Ice dance – Madison Chock and Evan Bates (USA). Bronze – Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson

Mar 30

Scottish Challenge Cup final –Livingston bt Queen’s Park

Men’s Ski Jumping World Cup – Daniel Tschofenig

Women’s Ski Jumping World Cup – Nika Prevc

Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships (St Moritz) –

Women’s ski halfpipe – Zoe Atkin

Women’s snowboard cross. Silver – Charlotte Bankes

Lincoln Handicap – Godwinson

Miami Open men’s final – Jakub Mensik (Czech Republic) bt Djokovic

Rory McIlroy becomes the second golfer after Tiger Woods to exceed $100m (£77m) in career earnings on the PGA Tour

April

Apr 1

Charlotte Edwards is appointed head coach of England women’s cricket team

Apr 3

Aintree Hurdle – Lossiemouth

Apr 4

Melling Chase – Jonbon

Topham Chase – Gentleman De Mee

Apr 5

Grand National – Nick Rockett (Patrick Mullins), trained by Willie Mullins 2^nd I Am Maximus 3^rd Grangeclare West

Willie Mullins trained the horses that finished first, second, third, fifth and seventh

Celebre d’Allen died following the race. Jockey Michael Nolan was handed a 10-day suspension

Champions Cup round of 16 – Toulon 72 Saracens 42

Champions Cup round of 16 – Leinster 62 Harlequins 0

Dubai World Cup – Hit Show

Apr 6

Japanese GP – Verstappen, Norris, Piastri

Somerset 670-7 (Banton 371) vs Worcestershire

Southampton are the first Premier League side to be relegated with seven games left after losing to Spurs

Tour Championship snooker final – Higgins bt Selby

Alex Ovechkin becomes the National Hockey League's highest all-time scorer by hitting his 895th career goal to surpass Wayne Gretzky's 31-year mark

Apr 7

Harry Brook is named England white-ball captain

Apr 9

Masters par 3 contest – Nicolas Echavarria

Apr 11

Jimmy Anderson is awarded a knighthood in Rishi Sunak's resignation honours list

Apr 12

Semi-automated offsides start in Premier League

Scottish Grand National – Captain Cody

Apr 13

Bahrain GP – Piastri, Russell, Norris

The Masters – McIlroy 2^nd Rose 3^rd Reed

McIlroy won on first play-off hole

The Boat Race – Cambridge win men’s and women’s races

EFL Trophy final – Peterborough bt Birmingham. Currently known as the Vertu Trophy for sponsorship reasons

Apr 14

Jackson Page becomes the first player to make a maximum 147 break twice in one match in qualifier for the World Snooker Championship, winning £147,000

Apr 15

Champions League quarter-finals – PSG bt Aston Villa, Barcelona bt Borussia Dortmund

Apr 16

Champions League quarter-finals – Arsenal bt Real Madrid, Inter Milan bt Bayern Munich

Apr 17

Europa League quarter-final – Athletic Bilbao bt Rangers, Man Utd bt Lyon 5-4 (7-6 on aggregate)

Apr 19

Fourteen-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi hits his first ball for six having become the youngest player to ever feature in the Indian Premier League

World Snooker Championship first round – Lei Peifan bt Kyren Wilson

Apr 20

Saudi Arabia GP – Piastri, Verstappen, Leclerc

Apr 21

Leeds Utd 6 (Joel Piroe 4) Stoke 0. Leeds are promoted to the Premier League

Irish Grand National – Haiti Couleurs

Wisden leading cricketers in the world – Jasprit Bumrah and Smriti Mandhana

Cricketers of the Year – Gus Atkinson, Liam Dawson, Sophie Ecclestone, Jamie Smith, Dan Worrall

World's leading T20 player – Nicholas Pooran

Laureus World Sports Awards –

Sportsman of the Year award – Mondo Duplantis

Sportswoman of the Year award – Simone Biles

Team of the Year award – Real Madrid

Breakthrough of the Year award – Lamine Yamal

Comeback of the Year award – Rebeca Andrade

Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability award – Yuyan Jiang (Chinese para swimmer)

Action Sportsperson of the Year award – Tom Pidcock

Sport for Good award – Kick4Life (football in Lesotho)

Apr 24

World Snooker Championship first round – Ben Woolaston bt Mark Selby

Apr 25

World Snooker Championship second round – Mark Allen 147 against Chris Wakelin

Apr 26

FA Cup semi-final – Crystal Palace bt Aston Villa

Women's Six Nations – England 43 France 42

England win a fourth consecutive Women's Six Nations Grand Slam and a seventh straight title

Top points scorer –

Morgane Bourgeois (France) 73

Top try scorer – Abby Dow (England) 6

Chris Eubank Jr bt Conor Benn. Fight held at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Apr 27

London Marathon –

Men’s – Sabastian Sawe (Kenya). 14^th Alex Yee

Women’s – Tigst Assefa (Ethiopia) in a women's-only record time. 8^th Eilish McColgan

Men’s wheelchair – Marcel Hug (Switzerland). Seventh win

Women’s wheelchair – Catherine Debrunner (Switzerland)

FA Cup semi-final – Man City bt Nottingham Forest

Liverpool 5 Spurs 1. Liverpool win 20^th title

Women’s Champions League semi-finals – Barcelona bt Chelsea 8-2 on aggregate, Arsenal bt Lyon

Gloucester 79 Exeter17

NFL draft first pick – Cam Ward (Tennessee Titans)

Chevron Championship – Mao Saigo (Japan)

EFL Awards –

Championship Manager of the Year – Scott Parker (Burnley)

Championship Player of the Year – Gustavo Hamer (Sheffield Utd)

Championship Young Player of the Year – Jobe Bellingham (Sunderland)

Apr 28

Rajasthan Royals' 14-year-old batter Vaibhav Suryavanshi becomes the youngest player to hit a century in men's T20s

Apr 29

Nat Sciver-Brunt is appointed as captain of England women’s cricket team