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January

Jan 2

Wayne Rooney sacked as manager of Birmingham City after just 83 days in charge

PDC World Darts Championship semi-finals – Luke Littler bt Rob Cross, Luke Humphries bt Scott Williams

Luke Humphries becomes world number one

Jan 3

PDC final – Humphries bt Littler. Humphries is nicknamed “Cool Hand Luke”. Littler is nicknamed “The Nuke” and his walk-on-music is ‘Greenlight’ by American rapper Pitbull

PGA Tour Player of Year – Scottie Scheffler

Jan 4

India bt South Africa by seven wickets in the shortest Test to produce a winner in the history of the game, lasting 642 balls

Jan 6

Mario Zagallo dies

Four Hills Tournament – Ryoyu Kobayashi (Japan)

Jan 8

Ding Junhui 147 against Ronnie O’Sullivan in Masters

Tony Mowbray appointed as manager of Birmingham City

Franz Beckenbauer dies

JPR Williams dies

Jan 10

European Track Cycling Championships start in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands

Jan 11

Bill Belichick leaves New England Patriots after 24 years as head coach

Andy Farrell is appointed head coach of the British and Irish Lions for the 2025 tour to Australia

Jan 12

Mark Allen 147 against Mark Selby in Masters

Men’s individual pursuit – Dan Bigham

Women’s sprint – Emma Finucane

Jan 13

Afcon starts in Ivory Coast

Masters semi-finals – O’Sullivan bt Murphy, Carter bt Allen

Men’s omnium – Ethan Hayter

Women’s 500m time trial – Katy Marchant

Jan 14

Masters final – O’Sullivan bt Carter. Eighth title

Women’s individual pursuit – Josie Knight

Jan 15

Fifa Best Awards –

Best Men’s Player – Lionel Messi

Best Women’s Player – Aitana Bonmati

Best Men’s Coach – Pep Guardiola

Best Women’s Coach – Sarina Wiegman

Best Men’s Goalkeeper – Ederson

Best Women’s Goalkeeper – Mary Earps

Jan 16

Jose Mourinho sacked as Roma manager

Louis Rees-Zammit to quit rugby union to play American football

Jan 19

Jordan Henderson moves from Al-Ettifaq to Ajax

Joe Schmidt appointed as head coach of Australia rugby union team

Bahrain Darts Masters final – Littler bt Van Gerwen

Dakar Rally – Cars classification won by Carlos Sainz, driving an Audi RS Q e-tron. Fourth win for Sainz

Jan 21

Dubai Desert Classic – McIlroy

World Grand Prix final – O’Sullivan bt Trump

Nick Dunlap wins The American Express title to become the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since Phil Mickelson in 1991

Australian Open fourth round – Zverev bt Norrie

Jan 22

World Indoor Bowls Championship. Men’s – Stewart Anderson. Women’s – Katherine Rednall

Jan 23

EFL Cup semi-final – Chelsea 6 Middlesbrough 1. Chelsea win 6-2 on aggregate

Longines World’s Best Racehorse – Equinox

Jan 24

EFL Cup semi-final – Liverpool bt Fulham

Big Bash League final – Brisbane Heat bt Sydney Sixers

Jan 25

Australian Open women’s semi-finals – Sabalenka bt Gauff, Zheng Qinwen bt Dayana Yastremska (Ukraine)

Lancashire spinner Tom Hartley makes England debut against India. His first ball is hit for six by Yashasvi Jaiswal

Jan 26

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

Mixed doubles final – Zielinski and Hsieh bt Skupski and Krawczyk

Luka Doncic scores 73 points for Dallas Mavericks against Atlanta Hawks

ICC Cricketer of the Year awards –

Men's Cricketer of the Year (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy) – Pat Cummins

Men's Test Cricketer of the Year – Usman Khawaja

Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year – Virat Kohli

Men's T20 Cricketer of the Year – Suryakumar Yadav

Women’s Cricketer of the Year (Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy) – Nat Sciver-Brunt

Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year – Chamari Athapaththu

Women's T20 Cricketer of the Year – Hayley Matthews

Jan 27

Australian Open women’s final – Sabalenka bt Zheng

Men’s doubles final – Ebden and Bopanna bt Bolelli and Vavassori

Rohan Bopanna, aged 43, becomes the oldest men's doubles number one

FA Cup fourth round – Maidstone Utd bt Ipswich

Joao Pedro hat-trick for Brighton against Sheffield Utd

Dutch Masters final – Van Gerwen bt Littler

Jan 28

Australian Open men’s final – Sinner bt Medvedev

Women’s doubles final – Hsieh and Mertens bt Kichenok and Ostapenko

First Test (Hyderabad) England 246 and 420 (Pope 196) India 436 and 202 (Hartley 7-62). England won by 28 runs

West Brom vs Wolves FA Cup tie suspended for 38 minutes due to crowd trouble

AFC Championship Game – Kansas City Chiefs bt Baltimore Ravens

NFC Championship Game – San Francisco 49ers bt Detroit Lions

Pegasus World Cup – National Treasure

British Basketball League (BBL) Trophy final – London Lions bt Cheshire Phoenix

WBBL Trophy final – London Lions bt Essex Rebels

Jan 29

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is given a four-year ban for doping

Jan 30

Elijah Adebayo hat-trick for Luton against Brighton

February

Feb 1

Transfer deadline day – Adam Wharton moves from Blackburn Rovers to Crystal Palace

Feb 2

Six Nations captains and coaches –

England – Jamie George and Steve Borthwick

Wales – Dafydd Jenkins and Warren Gatland

Ireland – Peter O’Mahony and Andy Farrell

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

France – Gregory Alldritt and Fabien Galthie

Italy – Michele Lamaro and Gonzalo Quesada

France 17 Ireland 38. Paul Willemse sent off

Shoaib Bashir makes England debut against India

Lewis Hamilton to join Ferrari in 2025

World Aquatics Championships start in Qatar

Mixed team diving – GB

Feb 3

Italy 24 England 27. England debuts for Fraser Dingwall and Ethan Roots. George Ford kicked 17 points

Wales 26 Scotland 27

Irish Gold Cup – Galopin des Champs

Feb 4

Matheus Cunha hat-trick for Wolves against Chelsea

Barry John dies

German Masters snooker final – Trump bt Si Jiahui

Feb 5

Second Test (Visakhapatnam) India 396 (Jaiswal 209) and 255 (Gill 104) England 253 (Bumrah 6-45) and 292. India won by 106 runs

Phil Foden hat-trick for Man City against Brentford

Cazoo Masters final – Bunting bt van Gerwen. First televised PDC title for Bunting

Feb 7

Player of the match award at this year's Super League Grand Final will be renamed after Rob Burrow. The new award will replace the Harry Sunderland Trophy

Feb 9

NFL MVP – Lamar Jackson (Baltimore Ravens)

Feb 10

England 16 Wales 14. Hollie Davidson becomes the first female assistant referee in a men's Six Nations Championship match

Scotland 16 France 20

2023 Asian Cup final (Qatar) Qatar 3 Jordan 1. Akram Afif scored a hat-trick of penalties

Feb 11

Ireland 36 Italy 0

West Ham 0 Arsenal 6

2023 Africa Cup of Nations final (Abidjan) Ivory Coast bt Nigeria. Third title. Ivory Coast lost matches in the group stage to Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria

Super Bowl LVIII – Kansas City Chiefs 25 San Francisco 49ers 22

Winning touchdown scored by Mecole Hardman with just three seconds left in overtime

Chiefs become first team to win back-to-back since the New England Patriots in 2004

MVP – Patrick Mahomes

Game played at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas

Half time show headlined by Usher

Feb 12

Kelvin Kiptum dies

Feb 13

Mansfield 9 Harrogate 2

Feb 14

Men’s 800m freestyle – Daniel Wiffen (Ireland)

Feb 15

Women’s 200m butterfly – Laura Stephens

Men’s high diving – Aiden Heslop

Feb 16

Ashwin takes 500th Test wicket, dismissing Zak Crawley

England are awarded five penalty runs after Ashwin is caught running into the protected area of the pitch

Feb 17

Mike Proctor dies

Welsh Open snooker semi-final – Gary Wilson 147 against John Higgins

Feb 18

Third Test (Rajkot) India 445 (Jadeja 112) and 430-4 (Jaiswal 214*) England 319 (Duckett 153) and 122 (Jadeja 5-41). India won by 434 runs

World Seniors Darts Championship – John Henderson. Lisa Ashton reached the semi-finals

Welsh Open final – Gary Wilson bt Martin O’Donnell

Men’s 1500m freestyle – Daniel Wiffen

Women’s 400m medley – Freya Colbert

China won 23 of the 75 gold medals available at the World Aquatics Championships

Feb 19

Former Eintracht Frankfurt manager Oliver Glasner replaces Roy Hodgson as manager of Crystal Palace

Michael Beale sacked as manager of Sunderland after just 12 games in charge

Feb 20

Andreas Brehme dies

Feb 24

Stan Bowles dies

Chris Nicholl dies

Ireland 31 Wales 7. Ireland equal England's record of 11 consecutive wins in the Six Nations

Scotland 31 England 20. Duhan van der Merwe becomes the first Scotland player to score a Calcutta Cup hat-trick

World Club Challenge – Wigan Warriors bt Penrith Panthers

Claressa Shields bt Kelsey De Santis in first professional women’s MMA bout in Saudi Arabia

Marco Odermatt wins his third consecutive overall Alpine World Cup title with 10 races to spare

Saudi Cup – Senor Buscador

Feb 25

France 13 Italy 13. Paolo Garbisi's injury-time penalty hit the post. Jonathan Danty was sent off and received a five-week suspension

EFL Cup final – Liverpool 1 (Van Dijk) Chelsea 0. Tenth win for Liverpool

Players Championship snooker final – Mark Allen bt Zhang Anda

Feb 26

Fourth Test (Ranchi) England 353 (Root 122*) and 145 (Ashwin 5-51) India 307 (Bashir 5-119) and192-5. India won by five wickets

Jarrod Bowen hat-trick for West Ham against Brentford

FA Cup fifth round – Coventry 5 Maidstone 0

Everton's penalty for breaching Premier League financial rules is reduced from 10 points to six after an appeal

Feb 27

FA Cup fifth round – Luton 2 Man City 6 (Haaland 5)

Feb 29

Paul Pogba is banned from football for four years for a doping offence

March

Mar 1

World Indoor Athletics Championships start at Commonwealth Arena in Glasgow

Men’s 60m – Christian Coleman (USA)

Men’s shot put – Ryan Crouser (USA)

Mar 2

Formula 1 teams –

Red Bull – Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez

Ferrari – Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz

Mercedes – Lewis Hamilton, George Russell

Aston Martin – Fernando Alonso, Lance Stroll

McLaren – Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri

Williams – Logan Sargeant, Alexander Albon

RB – Daniel Ricciardo, Yuki Tsunoda

Alpine – Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon

Haas – Kevin Magnussen, Nico Hulkenberg

Sauber – Valtteri Bottas, Zhou Guanyu

Bahrain GP – Verstappen, Perez, Sainz

Men’s 400m – Alexander Doom (Belgium)

Men’s 3000m – Josh Kerr

Men’s high jump – Hamish Kerr (New Zealand)

Men’s triple jump – Hugues Fabrice Zango (Burkina Faso)

Women’s pole vault – Molly Caudery

Women’s 400m – Femke Bol (Netherlands) in a world record time

Women’s 60m – Julien Alfred (Saint Lucia)

LeBron James becomes the first NBA player to reach 40,000 career regular-season points

Maurice Bembridge dies

Mar 3

UK Open darts final – Van den Burgh bt Humphries

Men’s 1500m – Geordie Beamish (New Zealand)

Men’s pole vault – Armand Duplantis

Women’s 800m – Tsige Duguma (Ethiopia). Silver – Jemma Reekie

Women’s 4x400m relay. Bronze – GB (Lina Nielsen, Laviai Nielsen, Ama Pipi, Jessie Knight)

USA topped the medal table, winning six gold medals

Katie Boulter wins her first WTA 500 title by defeating Marta Kostyuk in the San Diego Open final

HSBC Women’s World Championships – Hannah Green (Australia)

Mar 4

Sheffield Utd 0 Arsenal 6

Mar 6

Riyadh Season World Masters of Snooker final – O’Sullivan bt Brecel. First tournament played with the golden ball, worth 20 points

Mar 7

Jonny Bairstow wins 100th England cap

Mar 9

Jimmy Anderson takes 700th Test wicket, having Kuldeep Yadav caught by Ben Foakes

Fifth Test (Dharamsala) England 218 (Kuldeep 5-72) and 195 (Ashwin 5-77) India 474 (Gill 110, Rohit 103, Bashir 5-173) India won by an innings and 64 runs

India win series 4-1

Anthony Joshua bt Francis Ngannou. Fight held in Saudi Arabia

Mar 10

England 23 Ireland 22. Winning drop goal scored by Marcus Smith. Danny Care wins his 100th cap for England

Italy 31 Scotland 29. First home Six Nations win since 2013

Saudi Arabian GP – Verstappen, Perez, Leclerc. 7^th Oliver Bearman

Oliver Bearman replaced Carlos Sainz who had appendicitis

Mar 12

Champion Hurdle – State Man (Paul Townend), trained by Willie Mullins. 2^nd Irish Point 3^rd Luccia

Supreme Novices' Hurdle – Slade Steel (Rachael Blackmore)

Mar 13

Queen Mother Champion Chase – Captain Guinness (Rachael Blackmore)

Willie Mullins becomes the first person to post 100 winners at the Cheltenham Festival

Bournemouth recover from 3-0 down to beat Luton 4-3

Mar 14

Stayers’ Hurdle – Teahupoo

Ryanair Chase – Protektorat. Owned by Alex Ferguson

TrustATrader Plate Handicap Chase – Shakem Up'Arry. Owned by Harry Redknapp

Europa League – Roma bt Brighton, Benfica bt Rangers

Liverpool 6 Sparta Prague 1. Liverpool win 11-2 on aggregate

Mar 15

Gold Cup – Galopin des Champs (Paul Townend), trained by Willie Mullins. 2^nd Gerri Colombe 3^rd Corach Rambler

Prestbury Cup – Ireland bt GB

Leading Jockey – Paul Townend

Leading Trainer – Willie Mullins

Premiership Rugby Cup final – Gloucester bt Leicester Tigers

Mar 16

Wales 21 Italy 24

George North retires after winning his 121st cap

Ireland 17 Scotland 13

France 33 England 31. Match played in Lyon. Ollie Lawrence scored two tries for England. Thomas Ramos kicked the winning penalty for France

Final table – Ireland, France, England, Scotland, Italy, Wales

Ireland retain the Six Nations title. Wales lost all five matches

Leading points scorer – Thomas Ramos (63)

Leading try scorer – Dan Sheehan, Duhan van der Merwe (5)

Player of the tournament – Tommaso Menoncello

Mar 17

FA Cup quarter-final – Man Utd 4 Liverpool 3. Winning goal scored by Diallo

Indian Wells women’s final – Swiatek bt Sakkiri

Indian Wells men’s final – Alcaraz bt Medvedev

The Players Championship – Scottie Scheffler. First player to defend the title

World Women's Snooker Championship – Bai Yalu (China)

Women’s Premier League final – Royal Challengers Bangalore bt Delhi Capitals

Mar 18

Nottingham Forest receive an immediate four-point deduction for breaching Premier League profit and sustainability rules

Pakistan Super League final – Islamabad United bt Multan Sultans

Mar 22

World Figure Skating Championships (Montreal) –

Women – Kaori Sakamoto (Japan)

Pairs – Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps (Canada)

Mar 23

Men – Ilia Malinin (USA) with a new world record score

Ice dance – Madison Chock and Evan Bates (USA). 4^th Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson

England 0 Brazil 1. Winning goal scored by 17-year-old Endrick. Debut for Anthony Gordon

Jasmin Paris becomes the first woman to complete the Barkley Marathons ultramarathon in Tennessee

Lincoln Handicap – Mr Professor

Mar 24

Australian GP – Sainz, Leclerc, Norris

Marlie Packer wins 100th cap for England, against Italy

World Open snooker final – Trump bt Ding Junhui

Alpine Ski World Cup –

Men’s overall – Marco Odermatt (Switzerland)

Men’s downhill – Marco Odermatt

Women’s overall – Laura Gut-Behrami (Switzerland)

Women’s downhill – Conny Hutter (Austria)

Men’s Ski Jumping World Cup – Stefan Kraft (Austria)

Women’s Ski Jumping World Cup – Nika Prevc (Slovenia)

Scottish Challenge Cup final – Airdrieonians bt The New Saints

Mar 26

European Championship play-off eliminator. Wales 0 Poland 0. Poland win 5-4 on penalties. Daniel James missed the only penalty

Ivan Toney, Kobbie Mainoo, and Ezri Konsa make England debuts against Belgium

Mar 29

Louis Rees-Zammit joins the Kansas City Chiefs

Danny Care retires from international rugby

World Athletics Cross Country Championships (Belgrade) – Kenya wins 6 of the 9 gold medals. GB win bronze in Mixed relay

Mar 30

Cambridge win men’s and women’s boat races

Miami Open women’s final – Collins bt Rybakina

Dubai World Cup – Laurel River

Mar 31

Miami Open men’s final – Sinner bt Dimitrov

Women’s League Cup final – Arsenal bt Chelsea

April

Apr 2

Irish Grand National – Intense Raffles

Apr 3

Phil Foden hat-trick for Man City against Aston Villa

Apr 4

Cole Palmer hat-trick for Chelsea against Man Utd

Apr 6

Frankie Dettori wins six consecutive races at Santa Anita in California

Apr 7

Japanese GP – Verstappen, Perez, Sainz

EFL Trophy final – Peterborough United bt Wycombe Wanderers

Joe Kinnear dies

Tour Championship snooker final – Williams bt O’Sullivan

Apr 8

Everton are deducted two points for a second breach of Premier League financial rules

County Championship – Glamorgan 620-3 (Northeast 335*) Middlesex 665 (Higgins 221)

Apr 10

Masters par 3 contest – Rickie Fowler

Apr 11

Aintree Hurdle – Impaire Et Passe

Aintree Bowl – Gerri Colombe

Sheffield United will start with a two-point deduction the next time they play in the Championship after breaking EFL rules by defaulting on payments to other clubs during their 2022-23 promotion season

Apr 12

Melling Chase – Jonbon

Topham Chase – Arizona Cardinal

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss invest $4.5 million in Real Bedford FC

Tiger Woods makes the cut at the Masters for a record 24th consecutive year

Olga Fikotova dies. She won the discus gold medal at the 1956 Olympics

Apr 13

Grand National – I Am Maximus (Paul Townend), trained by Willie Mullins 2^nd Delta Work 3^rd Minella Indo

Billie Jean King Cup qualifier – GB bt France. Emma Raducanu won both her matches

Apr 14

Masters – Scottie Scheffler 2^nd Ludvig Aberg 3^rd Tommy Fleetwood, Collin Morikawa, Max Homa

EFL Awards –

Championship manager of the year – Kieran McKenna (Ipswich Town)

Championship player of the year – Crysencio Summerville (Leeds Utd)

Apr 15

Derek Underwood dies

Mykolas Alekna (Lithuania) produces a throw of 74.35m in the discus to break the longest-standing men's world record

County Championship – Warwickshire 698-3 against Durham

Chelsea 6 (Palmer 4) Everton 0

Wisden leading cricketers in the world – Nat Sciver-Brunt and Pat Cummins

Cricketers of the Year – Harry Brook, Ashleigh Gardner, Usman Khawaja, Mitchell Starc and Mark Wood

Wisden Trophy for Test performance of the year – Travis Head

Noppon Saengkham hits a maximum break in World Snooker Championship qualifying

Apr 17

Champions League quarter-finals – PSG bt Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund bt Atletico Madrid

Apr 18

Champions League quarter-finals – Real Madrid bt Man City, Bayern Munich bt Arsenal

Women's college basketball superstar Caitlin Clark is drafted into the professional league as the first overall pick by the Indiana Fever. Clark played for Iowa Hawkeyes

Ken Owens retires

Apr 19

Leighton James dies

Apr 20

Scottish Grand National – Macdermott

FA Cup semi-final – Man City 1 Chelsea 0

World Snooker Championship first round – David Gilbert bt Luca Brecel

Apr 21

Chinese GP – Verstappen, Norris, Perez

FA Cup semi-final – Man Utd 3 Coventry City 3. Man Utd won on penalties

London Marathon –

Men’s – Alexander Mutiso Munyao (Kenya) 2^nd Kenenisa Bekele 3^rd Emile Cairess

Women’s – Peres Jepchirchir (Kenya) in a women's only record time

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

Women’s wheelchair – Catherine Debrunner (Switzerland)

Chevron Championship – Nelly Korda, who equals an LPGA record by winning her fifth tournament in a row

Apr 22

World Snooker Championship first round – Joe O’Connor bt Mark Selby

Laureus Awards –

Sportsman of the Year award – Novak Djokovic

Sportswoman of the Year award – Aitana Bonmati

Team of the Year award – Spain women’s football team

Breakthrough of the Year award – Jude Bellingham

Comeback of the Year award – Simone Biles

Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability award – Diede de Groot (tennis)

Action Sportsperson of the Year award – Arisa Trew (skateboarding)

Sport for Good award – Fundacion Rafa Nadal

Apr 23

World Snooker Championship first round – Si Jiahui bt Mark Williams

Gateshead are excluded from the National League play-offs due to not meeting the Football League's ground ownership requirements

Apr 24

European Men’s Gymnastics Championships start in Rimini

Apr 25

Red Bull design chief Adrian Newey is to leave the team in the wake of the controversy involving allegations about team principal Christian Horner

Apr 27

Women’s Champions League semi-final – Barcelona bt Chelsea

British jump trainers' championship – Willie Mullins

British jump jockeys' championship – Harry Cobden

Women’s Six Nations – England bt France to win a third consecutive Six Nations Grand Slam and sixth straight title

Top scorer – Ellie Kildunne 45 (9 tries)

Player of the tournament – Ellie Kildunne

NFL draft first pick – Caleb Williams (Chicago Bears)

May

May 1

World Snooker Championship quarter-final – Stuart Bingham bt Ronnie O’Sullivan

World Snooker Championship quarter-final – Jak Jones bt Judd Trump

May 2

Peter Oosterhuis dies

Worcestershire spinner Josh Baker dies

FWA footballers of the year. Men – Phil Foden. Women – Khadija Shaw (Man City)

European Women’s Gymnastics Championships start in Rimini

May 4

2000 Guineas – Notable Speech (William Buick), trained by Charlie Appleby

European Champions Cup semi-final – Leinster bt Northampton. Hat-trick for James Lowe

Haaland scores four goals for Man City against Wolves

World Snooker Championship semi-finals – Kyren Wilson bt Dave Gilbert, Jak Jones bt Stuart Bingham

Kentucky Derby – Mystik Dan

May 5

1000 Guineas – Elmalka (Silvestre De Souza), trained by Roger Varian

European Champions Cup semi-final – Toulouse bt Harlequins

National League play-off final – Bromley bt Solihull Moors

Champions – Chesterfield

Miami GP – Norris, Verstappen, Leclerc. Maiden Formula 1 victory for Norris in his 110th grand prix. He had previously held the record for number of podium finishes (14) without winning a GP

Cesar Luis Menotti dies

PFA Scotland Premiership player of the year – Lawrence Shankland (Hearts)

World’s Strongest Man – Tom Stoltman

May 6

World Snooker Championship final – Kyren Wilson bt Jak Jones

Highest break – 147 by Noppon Saengkham (Thailand) during the qualifying rounds

May 7

Champions League semi-final – Borussia Dortmund bt Paris St-Germain

May 8

Champions League semi-final – Real Madrid bt Bayern Munich. Winning goal scored by Joselu

May 9

Europa Conference League semi-final – Olympiakos bt Aston Villa

May 10

World Snooker Tour Player of the Year – Ronnie O’Sullivan

May 11

Lauren Price becomes Wales’s first female world champion boxer

Premiership Rugby – Northampton 90 Gloucester 0

FA Trophy final – Gateshead bt Solihull Moors

FA Vase final – Romford bt Great Wakering Rovers

May 12

World Snooker Seniors Championship final – Igor Figueiredo (Brazil) bt Ken Doherty

Women’s FA Cup final – Man Utd bt Tottenham

Badminton Horse Trials – Caroline Powell, riding Greenacres Special Cavalier

May 14

Premiership Rugby player of the year – Fin Smith (Northampton Saints)

England player of the year – Ben Earl (Saracens)

Young player of the year –Immanuel Feyi-Waboso (Exeter Chiefs)

England women player of the year – Alex Matthews (Gloucester-Hartpury)

May 16

Xander Schauffele shoots 62 in first round of US PGA

Scottie Scheffler charged with police officer assault before US PGA second round

Feyenoord coach Arne Slot confirms he will replace Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool manager

May 17

World Para Athletics Championships start in Kobe, Japan

May 18

Chelsea bt Man Utd 6-0 to win Women’s Super League. Runners-up – Man City

League One play-off final – Oxford Utd bt Bolton

Promoted – Portsmouth, Derby County, Oxford Utd

Relegated – Cheltenham, Fleetwood, Port Vale, Carlisle

Leading scorer – Alfie May (Charlton Athletic) 23 goals

Scottish Premiership – Celtic. 2^nd Rangers

Relegated – Livingston

Leading scorer – Lawrence Shankland (Hearts) 24 goals

Scottish Premiership play-off – Ross County bt Raith Rovers

Scottish Championship – Dundee Utd

Scottish League One – Falkirk

Scottish League Two – Stenhousemuir

Highland League – Buckie Thistle

Lowland League – East Kilbride

Scottish League Two play-off final – Stranraer bt East Kilbride

UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship Final – Spain bt England

Bayer Leverkusen become the first Bundesliga team to finish a league season unbeaten

Glos 706-6 vs Leics

Shane Lowry shoots 62 in third round of US PGA

Oleksandr Usyk bt Tyson Fury in Riyadh to become the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis in 1999

Northampton Saints finish top of Premiership Rugby

World Squash Championships (Cairo). Men – Diego Elias (Peru). Women – Nouran Gohar (Egypt)

Preakness Stakes – Seize the Grey

May 19

Premier League – Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Aston Villa

Relegated – Luton, Burnley, Sheffield Utd

Leading Scorer – Erling Haaland (Man City) 27 goals

Man City beat West Ham to win Premier League for fourth successive year

Sheffield Utd won three matches and conceded 104 goals

Mateta hat-trick for Crystal Palace against Aston Villa

Roberto de Zerbi leaves Brighton

League Two play-off final – Crawley bt Crewe

Promoted – Stockport County, Wrexham, Mansfield Town, Crawley

Relegated – Sutton Utd, Forest Green Rovers

Leading scorer – Macauley Langstaff (Notts County) 28 goals

Emilia Romagna Grand Prix – Verstappen, Norris, Leclerc

US PGA Championship (Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, Kentucky) – Xander Schauffele. 2^nd Bryson DeChambeau 3^rd Viktor Hovland

Schauffele wins his first major, finishing on 21 under, the lowest overall total in a major

BBL Playoff final – London Lions bt Cheshire Pheonix

WBBL Playoff final – London Lions bt Newcastle Eagles

May 21

Chelsea manager Mauricio Pocettino leaves the club by mutual consent

Cheltenham and Aintree are among racecourses which will switch to 'safer' foam-padded hurdles

Barclays Manager of the Season – Pep Guardiola

League Managers Association manager of the year – Kieran McKenna (Ipswich)

May 22

Europa League final (Aviva Stadium, Dublin) Atalanta 3 Bayer Leverkusen 0. Hat-trick for Ademola Lookman

Bayer Leverkusen’s 51-game unbeaten run comes to an end

David Wilkie dies

May 23

Julen Lopetegui appointed as manager of West Ham

Premier League Darts finals night (O2 Arena). Semi-finals – Littler bt Smith, Humphries bt Van Gerwen. Final – Littler bt Humphries

May 24

European Challenge Cup final – Sharks bt Gloucester

May 25

Champions Cup final (Tottenham Hotspur Stadium) Toulouse bt Leinster. Sixth win for Toulouse. Man-of-the-match – Antoine Dupont

FA Cup final – Man Utd 2 (Garnacho, Mainoo) Man City 1 (Doku)

Scottish Cup final – Celtic bt Rangers

Women’s Champions League final – Barcelona bt Olympique Lyonnais

Wayne Rooney appointed as manager of Plymouth Argyle

A-League Grand Final – Central Coast Mariners bt Melbourne Victory

May 26

Championship play-off final – Southampton 1 (Armstrong) Leeds Utd 0

Promoted – Leicester, Ipswich, Southampton

Relegated – Birmingham City, Huddersfield, Rotherham

Leading scorer – Sammie Szmodics (Blackburn Rovers) 27 goals

Monaco GP – Leclerc, Piastri, Sainz

Indian Premier League final – Kolkata Knight Riders bt Sunrisers Hyderabad

Player of the series – Sunil Narine (Kolkata Knight Riders)

Most runs (Orange Cap) – Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

Most wickets (Purple Cap) – Harshal Patel (Punjab Kings)

Giro d’Italia – Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates). 3^rd Geraint Thomas

French Open first round – Wawrinka bt Murray

Josh Kerr breaks Steve Cram's 39-year-old British mile record

Indianapolis 500 – Josef Newgarden

May 27

French Open first round – Zverev bt Nadal

Serie A – Inter Milan

La Liga – Real Madrid

Bundesliga – Bayer Leverkusen. 2^nd VfB Stuttgart

Primeira Liga – Sporting CP

Ligue 1 – Paris St-Germain

Eredivisie – PSV Eindhoven

May 29

Olympique Lyonnais manager Sonia Bompastor moves to Chelsea

Burnley manager Vincent Kompany moves to Bayern Munich

Xavi replaced by Hansi Flick as manager of Barcelona

Europa Conference League final (Athens) – Olympiakos bt Fiorentina. First Greek team to ever win a European trophy

May 31

The Oaks – Ezeliya (Chris Hayes), trained by Dermot Weld

Premiership Rugby semi-final – Northampton Saints bt Saracens

June

Jun 1

Epsom Derby – City of Troy (Ryan Moore), trained by Aidan O’Brien. 2^nd Ambiente Friendly 3^rd Los Angeles. 10th victory in the race for O’Brien

Premiership semi-final – Bath bt Sale

Champions League final (Wembley) – Real Madrid 2 (Carvajal, Vinicius Jr) Borussia Dortmund 0. Fifteenth win for Real Madrid

USA bt Canada in opening match of Men’s T20 World Cup. Match played in Dallas

Queensbury (Frank Warren) bt Matchroom (Eddie Hearn) in 5v5 event in Saudi Arabia. Zhang bt Wilder in final fight

Jose Mourinho is appointed as manager of Fenerbahce

Jun 2

Rob Burrow dies

U.S. Women’s Open – Yuka Saso (Japan)

Jun 3

Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca moves to Chelsea

Jun 5

Antonio Conte appointed as manager of Napoli

Jun 6

Men’s T20 World Cup – Uganda bt Papua New Guinea to earn their first win at a world cup

Men’s T20 World Cup – USA bt Pakistan in a super over

French Open women’s singles semi-finals – Swiatek bt Gauff, Jasmine Popalina (Italy) bt Andreeva

French Open mixed doubles final – Seigemund and Roger-Vasselin bt Krawczyk and Skupski

Wolverhampton Wanderers lose vote to axe VAR in Premier League by 19-1

Jun 7

French Open men’s singles semi-finals – Alvarez bt Sinner, Zverev bt Ruud

Men’s T20 World Cup – Canada bt Ireland

Iceland bt England in final warm-up match before Euro 2024

European Athletics Championships start in Rome

Mixed 4x400m relay – Ireland

World Rugby Sevens Series (SVNS) – France

Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year – “The Extra Mile” by Kevin Sinfield

Jun 8

Women’s Challenge Cup final – St Helens bt Leeds

Challenge Cup final – Wigan bt Warrington. Lance Todd trophy – Bevan French

French Open women’s final – Swiatek bt Popalina

French Open men’s doubles final – Arevalo and Pavic bt Bolelli and Vavassori

Premiership Rugby final – Northampton 25 Bath 21. Winning try scored by Alex Mitchell. Bath prop Beno Obano was sent off

Premiership Rugby top try scorer – Ollie Sleighthome (Northampton) 14 tries

Premiership Rugby top points scorer – Henry Slade (Exeter) 152 points

Belmont Stakes – Dornoch

Men’s 100m – Marcell Jacobs (Italy)

Men’s 5000m – Jakob Ingebritsen (Norway). Silver – George Mills

Jun 9

French Open men’s final – Alcaraz bt Zverev

French Open women’s doubles final – Gauff and Siniakova bt Popalina and Errani

Men’s T20 World Cup – Uganda bowled out for 39 by West Indies

Canadian GP – Verstappen, Norris, Russell

Women’s 100m – Dina Asher-Smith

Women’s half-marathon team – GB

Women’s 800m – Ciara Mageean (Ireland). Silver – Georgia Bell

New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies draw Major League Baseball's two-game London Series

Jun 10

Men’s 400m – Alexander Doom (Belgium). Silver – Charlie Dobson

Jun 11

Men’s 400m hurdles – Karsten Warholm (Norway)

Women’s 200m – Mujinga Kambundji (Switzerland). Silver – Daryll Neita

Women’s 400m hurdles – Femke Bol (Netherlands)

Jun 12

Women’s 800m – Keely Hodgkinson

Women’s 4x100m relay – GB (Dina Asher-Smith, Desiree Henry, Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita)

Italy topped the medal table

Jun 13

T20 World Cup – Oman 47 England 50-2 (3.1 overs)

Jun 14

UEFA Euro 2024 starts in Germany

Germany 5 Scotland 1 in opening match. First goal scored by Florian Wirtz. Ryan Porteous was sent off. Scotland’s goal was an own goal by Antonio Rudiger

Men’s T20 World Cup – Uganda bowled out for 40 by New Zealand

Jun 15

Kevin Campbell dies

King’s Birthday Honours –

Knighthood – Mark Cavendish

CBE – Graeme Souness

MBE – Jasmin Paris

OBE – Ally McCoist, Sandy Lyle, Karen Carney, Katherine Sciver-Brunt, Wayne Barnes

Jun 16

England 1 (Bellingham) Serbia 0. Match played in Gelsenkirchen

Nottingham Open semi-final – Boulter bt Raducanu. Final – Boulter bt Pliskova

US Open (Pinehurst) – Bryson Dechambeau 2nd Rory McIlroy

Le Mans 24 Hours – Ferrari 499P Hypercar

Jun 17

Slovakia 1 Belgium 0

New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka fail to qualify for Super 8s in T20 World Cup

NBA finals – Boston Celtics bt Dallas Mavericks. 18th championship for Boston

Finals MVP – Jaylen Brown

Regular season MVP – Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets)

Regular season top scorer – Luka Doncic (Dallas Mavericks)

Jun 18

St James’s Palace Stakes – Rosallion

Willie Mays dies

Michael Johnson launches Grand Slam Track athletics league

Jun 19

Scotland 1 (McTominay) Switzerland 1

Prince of Wales's Stakes – Auguste Rodin

Royal Hunt Cup – Wild Tiger

Jun 20      

England 1 (Kane) Denmark 1. Match played in Frankfurt

Queen’s second round – Draper bt Alcaraz

Gold Cup – Kyprios (Ryan Moore)

King George V Stakes – Going the Distance

T20 World Cup – Pat Cummins hat-trick for Australia against Bangladesh

Jun 21

Rob Page sacked as manager of Wales

Coronation Stakes – Porta Fortuna

Leading jockey at Ascot – Ryan Moore

Leading trainer at Ascot – Aidan O’Brien

Jun 22

United Rugby Championship Grand Final – Glasgow Warriors bt Bulls

Charlotte Edwards Cup final – South East Stars 141-9 The Blaze 143-3 (Kathryn Bryce 62, Sarah Bryce 52)

T20 World Cup – Afghanistan bt Australia for the first time in any form of cricket. Hat-trick for Pat Cummins

Premiership Women’s Rugby final – Gloucester-Hartpury bt Bristol Bears

Super Rugby Pacific final – Blues bt Chiefs

Jun 23

Birmingham Classic final – Yulia Putintseva bt Ajla Tomljanovic

Queen’s Club Championship final – Tommy Paul bt Lorenzo Musetti

T20 World Cup – Chris Jordan takes hat-trick and four wickets in five balls for England against USA, who lost their last five wickets for no runs

Spanish GP – Verstappen, Norris, Hamilton

Scotland 0 Hungary 1 (Csoboth)

Women’s PGA Championship – Amy Yang (South Korea)

Jun 24

Stanley Cup – Florida Panthers bt Edmonton Oilers

MVP – Connor McDavid (Edmonton Oilers)

Regular season MVP – Nathan MacKinnon (Colorado Avalanche)

Top 14 final – Toulouse bt Bordeaux Begles

Jun 25

England 0 Slovenia 0

Mary Earps to move from Man Utd to Paris St-Germain

Jun 26

All four teams in Group E finish on four points

Spain were the only country to win all three group matches

Final group tables –

Group A – Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Scotland

Group B – Spain, Italy, Croatia, Albania

Group C – England, Denmark, Slovenia, Serbia

Group D – Austria, France, Netherlands, Poland

Group E – Romania, Belgium, Slovakia, Ukraine

Group F – Portugal, Turkey, Georgia, Czech Republic

Ollie Robinson is hit for 43 runs in an over by Leicestershire's Louis Kimber in the County Championship

T20 World Cup semi-final – Afghanistan 56 South Africa 60-1

Wes Foderingham moves from Sheffield Utd to West Ham

Jun 27

T20 World Cup semi-final – India 171-7 England 103

Zaccharie Risacher is selected with the first overall pick by the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA draft

Jun 29

Round of 16 – Switzerland bt Italy, Germany bt Denmark

Tour de France Grand Depart takes place in Italy for the first time. Stage One from Florence to Rimini won by Romain Bardet

T20 World Cup final (Kensington Oval, Barbados) – India 176-7 (Kohli 76) South Africa 169-8. India won by 7 runs

Eastbourne International women’s final – Kasatkina bt Fernandez

Eastbourne International men’s final – Fritz bt Purcell

Netball Super League final – Loughborough Lightning bt Manchester Thunder

English Greyhound Derby – De Lahdedah

Roberto De Zerbi is appointed as manager of Olympique Marseille

Jun 30

Round of 16 – England 2 (Bellingham, Kane) Slovakia 1

Bellingham equalised with a bicycle kick in the 95th minute

Spain bt Georgia

Douglas Luiz moves from Aston Villa to Juventus

Austrian GP – Russell, Piastri, Sainz

World Cup of Darts final – England (Humphries and Michael Smith) bt Austria (Suljovic and Rodriguez)

Irish Derby – Los Angeles

July

Jul 1

Round of 16 – France bt Belgium

Portugal bt Slovenia. Diogo Costa saved all three penalties in shootout

Biniam Girmay becomes the first black African to win a Tour de France stage

Kylian Mbappe moves from Paris St-Germain to Real Madrid

Ross Barklay moves from Luton to Aston Villa

Jul 2

Round of 16 – Netherlands bt Romania

Turkey bt Austria

Wimbledon women’s singles first round – Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (Spain) bt Vondrousova

Anderson 7-35 for Lancs against Notts

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall moves from Leicester to Chelsea

Archie Gray moves from Leeds to Tottenham

Jul 3

Jack Rowell dies

Mark Cavendish beaks Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 Tour de France stage wins

Glamorgan score 592 to tie against Gloucestershire in County Championship

Championship League Snooker final – Ali Carter bt Jackson Page

Jul 4

Wimbledon women’s singles second round – Dart bt Boulter

Wimbledon men’s singles second round – Norrie bt Draper

Wimbledon men’s singles second round – Djokovic bt Jacob Fearnley

Wimbledon men’s doubles first round – Peers and Hijikata bt Murray and Murray

Jul 5

Quarter finals –

Spain bt Germany

France bt Portugal

Wimbledon women’s singles third round – Gauff bt Sonay Kartal

Jul 6

Quarter-finals –

England 1 (Saka) Switzerland 1 (Embolo). England won 5-3 on penalties

Netherlands bt Turkey

Wimbledon men’s singles third round – Zverev bt Norrie. Zverev won third set tie break 17-15

Wimbledon women’s singles third round – Putintseva bt Swiatek

Raducanu pulls out of mixed doubles with Andy Murray, in what was to be Murray’s final appearance at Wimbledon

Oliver Bearman joins Haas for 2005

Coral-Eclipse Stakes – City of Troy

Max Kilman moves from Wolves to West Ham

Jul 7

British GP – Hamilton, Verstappen, Norris. Ninth British GP victory for Hamilton, and first GP victory since 2021

Paris Diamond League –

Women’s 1500m – Faith Kipyegon in a world record time of 3:49.04

Women’s high jump – Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Ukraine), breaking Stefka Kostadinova's 1987 world record

Wimbledon women’s singles fourth round – Lulu Sun (New Zealand) bt Raducanu

Michael Olise moves from Crystal Palace to Bayern Munich

Jul 8

Keegan Bradley will captain the United States in the 2025 Ryder Cup against Europe

Jul 9

Semi-final – Spain 2 France 1

Craig Bellamy is appointed as manager of Wales

Jul 10

Semi-final – England 2 (Kane (pen), Watkins) Netherlands 1

Gus Atkinson and Jamie Smith make England debuts against West Indies

Heimir Hallgrimsson is appointed as manager of Republic of Ireland

Jul 11

Wimbledon women’s singles semi-finals – Paolini bt Vekic, Krejcikova bt Rybakina

Joao Palhinha moves from Fulham to Bayern Munich

Jul 12

First Test (Lord’s) – West Indies 121 (Atkinson 7-45) and 136 (Atkinson 5-61) England 371. England won by an innings and 114 runs

Jimmy Anderson retires from Test cricket. He played 188 Tests and took 704 wickets. Final wicket taken by Anderson – Jayden Seales

Wimbledon men’s singles semi-finals – Alcaraz bt Medvedev, Djokovic bt Musetti

Jul 13

South Africa 24 Ireland 25. Winning drop goal scored by Ciaran Frawley

Wimbledon women’s singles final – Krejcikova bt Paolini

Wimbledon men’s doubles final – Heliovaara and Patten bt Purcell and Thompson

Wimbledon women’s doubles final – Siniakova and Townsend bt Dabrowski and Routliffe

Women’s wheelchair – Diede De Groot

Speedway of Nations – GB (Robert Lambert and Dan Bewley)

Jul 14

Final (Berlin) Spain 2 (Williams, Oyarzabal) England 1 (Palmer)

Golden Ball – Rodri

Golden boot – six players (including Harry Kane) all scored three goals

Young player – Yamal (Spain)

Copa America final (Miami) – Colombia bt Argentina

Wimbledon men’s singles final – Alcaraz bt Djokovic

Wimbledon mixed doubles final – Zielinski and Hsieh bt Gonzalez and Olmos

Men’s wheelchair – Hewett, who completes a career Grand Slam

Men’s doubles wheelchair – Hewett and Reid

Scottish Open – Rob MacIntyre

Evian Championship – Ayake Furue (Japan)

Joshua Zirkzee moves from Bologna to Man Utd

Jul 15

World Matchplay first round – Van Gerwen bt Littler

Jul 16

Gareth Southgate resigns as England manager

Jul 17

State of Origin – New South Wales Blues bt Queensland Maroons

Jul 18

Leny Yoro moves from Lille to Man Utd

Savinho moves from Troyes to Man City

The Open first round leader – Dan Brown

Jul 19

World Rugby Under-20 Championship final – England bt France

Jul 20

Ray Reardon dies

Hole-in-one for Si Woo Kim

The par five 6th hole at Royal Troon is lengthened to 623 yards, to become the longest hole in Open history. The 8th hole, the Postage Stamp, is the shortest to be ever played at The Open Championship and measures 123 yards

Jul 21

The Open Championship (Royal Troon) – Xander Schauffele. 2^nd Justin Rose, Billie Horschel

Hungarian GP – Piastri, Norris, Hamilton. First GP victory for Piastri

Shanghai Masters final – Trump bt Murphy

World Matchplay darts final – Humphries bt Van Gerwen

Women’s World Matchplay darts final – Greaves bt Sherrock

Tour de France finishes in Nice, with a time trial. 1^st Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), who won six stages. 2^nd Jonas Vingegaard 3^rd Remco Evenepoel

Adam Yates finished in tenth place

Points – Biniam Girmay

Mountains – Richard Carapaz

Youth – Remco Evenepoel

Combativity – Richard Carapaz

Team – UAE Team Emirates

Second Test (Trent Bridge) England 416 (Pope 121) and 425 (Root 122, Brook 109) West Indies 457 (Hodge 120) and 143 (Bashir 5-43). England won by 241 runs

All-Ireland Hurling final – Clare bt Cork

Formula E World Championship – Pascal Wehrlein (Germany). Jaguar won the Teams’ Championship

Jul 22

Amadou Onana moves from Everton to Aston Villa

Jul 23

Charlotte Dujardin given provisional ban and is out of Olympics after a video emerges of her whipping a horse

Jul 24

Men’s football and men’s rugby sevens start at Olympics

Argentina and Morocco's opening men’s football match is suspended for nearly two hours due to crowd trouble

Jul 25

South Korea archer Lim Si-hyeon becomes the first person to break a world record at the Games

Jul 26

Opening ceremony. The parade of nations was held as part of a boat parade along the Seine. Games opened by President Macron. British flag carriers – Tom Daley and Helen Glover. Cauldron lit by Teddy Riner and Jose-Marie Perec. Opening and closing ceremonies designed by Thomas Jolly. Mascot – Phryge, an anthropomorphic Phrygian cap

Australian hockey player Matt Dawson opts to amputate part of his finger to compete at the Olympics

Repechage used in athletics events for the first time

Jul 27

First gold medal won by China in mixed team 10m air rifle

Women’s synchronised 3m springboard – China. Bronze – GB (Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen)

Women’s time trial – Grace Brown (Australia), Silver – Anna Henderson, Bronze – Chloe Dygart (USA)

Men’s time trial – Remco Evanepoel (Belgium). 4^th Josh Tarling

Men’s rugby sevens final – France bt Fiji

Canada's women's football team are deducted six points from their group and coach Bev Priestman is banned for one year after a drone was used to spy on a rival team's training sessions

Duhan van der Merwe becomes Scotland’s record try scorer

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes – Goliath

Jul 28

Canoe slalom women’s kayak singles – Jessica Fox (Australia). Bronze – Kimberley Woods

Men’s doubles first round – GB (Murray and Evans) bt Japan (Daniel and Nishikori). GB saved five match points in a tie-break decider

Men’s 100m breaststroke – Nicolo Martinenghi (Italy). Joint silver – Adam Peaty and Nic Funk (USA)

Men’s 400m individual medley – Leon Marchand (France). 4^th Max Litchfield

Third Test (Edgbaston) West Indies 282 and 175 (Wood 5-40) England 376 and 87-0. England won by 10 wickets

Ben Stokes hits England's fastest-ever Test half-century off just 24 balls

Belgium GP – Hamilton, Piastri, Leclerc. Russell finished first but was later disqualified as his car was 1.5kg underweight

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final – Armagh bt Galway

Senior Open Championship – K.J. Choi

Jul 29

Men’s synchronised 10m platform – China. Silver – Tom Daley and Noah Williams

Team eventing – GB (Ros Canter, Tom McEwan and Laura Collett). GB’s first gold medal

Eventing individual jumping final – Michael Jung (Germany). Bronze – Laura Collett, riding London 52

Men’s second round – Djokovic bt Nadal

Men’s mountain bike – Tom Pidcock

Canoe slalom men’s singles. Silver – Adam Burgess

Men’s 200m freestyle – David Popovici (Romania). Silver – Matt Richards

Women’s 100m breaststroke. Bronze – Mona McSharry (Ireland)

Women’s 400m individual medley – Summer McIntosh (Canada). 4^th Freya Colbert

Riccardo Calafiori moves from Bologna to Arsenal

Jul 30

Men’s 800m freestyle – Daniel Wiffen (Ireland)

Men’s trap – Nathan Hales

Men’s doubles second round – GB (Murray and Evans) bt Belgium (Gille and Vliegen)

Women’s gymnastics team final – USA (including Simone Biles)

Men's individual triathlon postponed because of poor water quality levels in River Seine

Matthew Mott steps down as England white-ball coach

Goodwood Cup – Kyprios

Jul 31

Men’s triathlon – Alex Yee

Women’s triathlon – Cassandre Beaugrand (France). Bronze – Beth Potter

Women’s quadruple sculls – GB (Henry, Anderson, Brayshaw, Scott)

Women’s synchronised 10m platform. Bronze – Lois Toulson and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix

Men’s BMX freestyle – Jose Torres Gil (Argentina). Silver – Kieran Reilly

Luke Greenbank is disqualified from a heat of the men's 200m backstroke for travelling too far underwater

Men’s 200m breaststroke – Leon Marchand (France)

Men’s 200m butterfly – Leon Marchand

Men’s 100m freestyle – Pan Zhanle (China) in a world record time of 46.40 seconds

Women’s 1500m – Katie Ledecky (USA)

Sussex Stakes – Notable Speech

August

Aug 1

Men’s four final – USA. Bronze – GB (Wilkes, Ambler, Aldridge, Davidson)

Women’s four final – Netherlands. Silver – GB (Glover, Booth, Redgrave, Shorten)

Women’s double sculls – New Zealand. Bronze – GB (Hodgkins-Byrne and Wilde)

Nassau Stakes – Opera Singer

Aug 2

Women’s lightweight double sculls – GB (Craig and Grant)

Men’s pair – Croatia. Silver – GB (George and Wynne-Griffith)

Men’s synchronised 3m springboard. Bronze – GB (Harding and Laugher)

Men’s lightweight double sculls – Ireland (O’Donovan and McCarthy)

Women’s trampoline – Bryony Page

Equestrian team jumping – GB (Brash, Maher, Charles)

Men’s 200m individual medley – Leon Marchand. Silver – Duncan Scott. Fourth gold medal for Leon Marchand

Men’s 50m – Cameron McEvoy (Australia). Silver – Ben Proud

Men’s 10000m – Joshua Cheptegei (Ugamda)

Men’s football quarter-final – France bt Argentina

Mixed doubles final – Czech Republic (Machac and Siniakova) bt China (Zheng and Wang)

Men’s heavyweight judo – Teddy Riner (France)

Men’s BMX – podium sweep for France

Emile Smith Rowe moves from Arsenal to Fulham

Aug 3

Women’s eight – Romania. Bronze – GB

Men’s eight – GB

Jeremiah Azu disqualified from 100m heats because of a false start

Women’s windsurfing. Bronze – Emma Wilson

Dressage team – Germany. Bronze – GB (Moody, Hester, Fry). Isabell Werth wins eighth gold medal

Becky Moody replaced Charlotte Dujardin

Women’s vault – Biles

Men’s pommel horse – Rhys McClenaghan (Ireland). 4^th Max Whitlock

Men’s floor – Carlos Yulo (Philippines) Bronze – Jake Jarman

Men’s road race – Remco Evenepoel (Belgium)

Women’s singles – Zheng bt Vekic. Bronze – Swiatek

Mixed 4x400m relay – Netherlands. Bronze – GB (Reardon, Nielsen, Haydock-Wilson, Anning)

Women’s 100m – Julien Alfred (Saint Lucia). Silver – Sha'Carri Richardson (USA). 4^th Daryll Neita. First-ever medal for Saint Lucia

Women’s triple jump – Thea Lafond (Dominica). First-ever medal for Dominica

Women’s 800m freestyle – Katie Ledecky. Fourth successive win

Crysencio Summerville moves from Leeds to West Ham

Aug 4

Men’s 100m – Noah Lyles (USA). Silver – Kishane Thompson (Jamaica). Bronze – Fred Kerley (USA)

Men’s golf – Scottie Scheffler. Silver – Tommy Fleetwood. Bronze – Hideki Matsuyama

Men’s singles final – Djokovic bt Alvarez. Bronze – Musetti

Women’s skeet shooting. Silver – Amber Rutter

Amber Rutter was controversially denied a chance to shoot for gold when she was called to have missed a shot which slow motion replays appeared to show she hit

Individual dressage. Bronze – Lottie Fry

Men’s vault. Bronze – Harry Hepworth

USA topped the swimming medal table for most golds (8)

Women’s middleweight boxing. Bronze – Cindy Ngamba (Refugee Olympic Team). First-ever medal for Refugee Olympic Team

Men’s hockey quarter-finals – India bt GB

Men’s 1500m freestyle. Bronze – Daniel Wiffen

Niclas Fullkrug moves from Borussia Dortmund to West Ham

Aug 5

Women’s 800m – Keely Hodgkinson

Cycling women’s team sprint – GB (Marchant, Capewell, Finucane)

Men’s kayak cross. Silver – Joe Clarke

Women’s kayak cross. Bronze – Kimberley Woods

Triathlon mixed team relay – Germany. Bronze – GB (Yee, Taylor-Brown, Dickinson, Potter)

Women’s hockey quarter-final – Netherlands bt GB

Women’s floor – Rebeca Andrade (Brazil). Silver – Simone Biles

Graham Thorpe dies

Twickenham is to be renamed as the Allianz Stadium in a new sponsorship deal

Aug 6

Skateboarding women’s park. Bronze – Sky Brown

Men’s 1500m – Cole Hocker (USA). Silver – Josh Kerr

Men’s team sprint – Netherlands. Silver – GB (Carlin, Turnbull, Lowe)

Women’s 200m – Gabby Thomas (USA). Silver – Julien Alfred. 4^th Dina Asher-Smith

Men’s welterweight. Bronze – Lewis Richardson. Only British boxer to win a bout

Women’s lightweight – Kellie Harrington (Ireland)

Men’s Greco-Roman 130kg – Mijain Lopez (Cuba)

Mijaín Lopez became the first and only athlete in modern Olympics history to win five consecutive gold medals in the same individual event

Aug 7

Men’s 400m – Quincy Hall (USA). Silver – Matthew Hudson-Smith

Men’s team pursuit – Australia. Silver – GB (Hayter, Tanfield, Bigham, Vernon)

Women’s team pursuit – USA. Bronze – GB (Barker, Knight, Morris, Roberts)

Aug 8

Women’s kiteboarding – Ellie Aldridge

Men’s 200m – Letsile Tebogo (Botswana). Silver – Kenneth Bednarek (USA). Bronze – Noah Lyles (USA). Lyles tested positive for Covid before the final

Women’s 400m hurdles – Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA) in a world record time

Women’s keirin. Bronze – Emma Finucane. 4^th Katy Marchant

Lee Carsley appointed as interim manager of England

Aug 9

Sport climbing – men’s boulder and lead – Toby Roberts

Heptathlon – Nafissatou Thiam (Belgium). Silver – Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Third successive gold for Thiam

Women’s 4x100m relay – USA. Silver – GB (Asher-Smith, Lansiquot, Hunt, Neita)

Men’s 4x100m relay – Canada. Bronze – GB (Azu, Hinchliffe, Mitchell-Blake, Hughes)

Women’s madison. Silver – GB (Evans and Barker)

Men’s sprint. Bronze – Jack Carlin

Women’s welterweight boxing – Imane Khelif (Algeria)

Men’s football final – Spain 5 France 3

The Breaking B-Girls event is marred by the controversy generated on social media by the performance and choice of clothing of Australian breaker Raygun (Rachael Gunn)

Aug 10

Women’s 1500m – Faith Kipyegon. Bronze – Georgia Bell

Men’s 4x400m relay – USA. Bronze – GB (Haydock-Wilson, Hudson-Smith, Davey, Dobson)

Women’s 4x400m relay – USA. Bronze – GB (Ohuruogu, Nielsen, Yeargin, Anning)

Men’s marathon – Tamirat Tola (Ethiopia). 4^th Emile Cairess

Artistic swimming. Silver – GB (Shortman and Thorpe)

Taekwondo men’s +80kg. Silver – Caden Cunningham

Men’s 10m platform. Bronze – Noah Williams

China won all eight diving gold medals

Women’s football final – USA bt Brazil

Women’s golf – Lydia Ko (New Zealand)

Women’s featherweight boxing – Lin Yu-ting (Chinese Taipei)

Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif were controversially allowed to compete in Paris despite being disqualified from last year’s World Championships after reportedly failing gender eligibility tests

Community Shield – Man City bt Man Utd

Dominic Solanke moves from Bournemouth to Tottenham

Aug 11

Women’s sprint. Bronze – Emma Finucane

Women’s +81kg weightlifting. Bronze – Emily Campbell

Women’s basketball final – USA 67 France 66. Eighth gold medal in a row for USA

Olympic Games closing ceremony at Stade de France. British flag carried by Alex Yee and Bryony Page

Final medal table – 1st USA (40-44-42) 126 2nd China (40-27-24) 91 3rd Japan (20-12-13) 45 7th GB (14-22-29) 65

Most gold medals – Leon Marchand (4)

Most medals – Zhang Yufei (6). Chinese swimmer

Arlington Million – Nations Pride

Pedro Neto moves from Wolves to Chelsea

Aug 12

Fabio Carvalho moves from Liverpool to Brentford

Julian Alvarez moves from Man City to Atletico Madrid for £81 million

Aug 13

Champions League third qualifying round – Dynamo Kyiv bt Rangers

Matthijs de Ligt moves from Bayern Munich to Man Utd

Noussair Mazraoui moves from Bayern Munich to Man Utd

Aaron Wan-Bissaka moves from Man Utd to West Ham

Aug 14

European Super Cup (Warsaw) Real Madrid 2 (Valverde, Mbappe) Atalanta 0

Aug 16

First goal in Premier League – Joshua Zirkzee for Man Utd against Fulham

Premier League shirt sponsors: Aston Villa – Betano, Bournemouth – bj88, Crystal Palace – NET88, Ipswich +-=÷×, Leicester – BC.GAME, Man Utd – Snapdragon, Southampton, Rollbit, Wolves – DEBET

Chelsea currently have no shirt sponsor

Evanilson moves from Porto to Bournemouth

Wilson Odobert moves from Burnley to Tottenham

Aug 18

Tour de France Femmes – Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Poland)

The Hundred finals (Lord’s). Men’s – Oval Invincibles bt Southern Brave. Women’s – London Spirit bt Welsh Fire

Men: most runs – James Vince (Southern Brave), most wickets – Adam Zampa (Oval Invincibles) and Tymal Mills (Southern Brave)

Women: most runs – Nat Sciver-Brunt (Trent Rockets), most wickets – Linsey Smith (Northern Superchargers)

Men’s player of the series – Sam Curran (Oval Invincibles)

Women’s player of the series – Annabel Sutherland (London Spirit)

Aug 19

Oliver Skipp moves from Tottenham to Leicester

Georginio Rutter moves from Leeds to Brighton

Matthew Richardson, who won three medals for Australia at the Olympics, leaves the Australian cycling roster and will instead represent Great Britain, the country of his birth

Aug 20

PFA Awards –

Men’s player of the year – Phil Foden

Men’s young player of the year – Cole Palmer

Women’s player of the year – Khadija Shaw (Man City)

Women's young player of the year – Grace Clinton (Man Utd)

Aug 21

Joao Felix moves from Atletico Madrid to Chelsea

Conor Gallagher moves from Chelsea to Atletico Madrid

Aug 23

Rocky Flintoff makes debut for Lancashire. Son of Freddie Flintoff

Ilkay Gundowan returns to Man City from Barcelona

Jordan Ayew moves from Crystal Palace to Leicester

Aug 24

Haaland hat-trick for Man City against Ipswich

Paralympic flame lit at Stoke Mandeville

First Test (Old Trafford) Sri Lanka 236 and 358 (Kamindu Mendis 113) England 358 (Smith 111) and 205-5. England won by five wickets

Ollie Pope captains England for the first time

Aug 25

Jakob Ingebritsen breaks Daniel Komen's 28-year-old 3000m world record

Wolves 2 Chelsea 6 (Madueke 3)

Dutch GP – Norris, Verstappen, Leclerc

Women’s Open (St Andrews) – Lydia Ko

Aug 26

Sven-Goran Eriksson dies

Aug 27

US Open first round – Dan Evans bt Karen Khachanov to win the longest match in US Open history, in five hours and 35 minutes

Mikel Merino moves from Real Sociedad to Arsenal

Aug 28

EFL Cup second round – AFC Wimbledon bt Ipswich

Paris 2024 Paralympics opening ceremony. Athletes parade along the Champs-Elysees to Place de la Concorde

The Phryge representing the Paralympics wears a running blade on one of its legs

Aug 29

Archie Vaughan makes debut for Somerset. Son of Michael Vaughan

Poppy Maskill wins Britain's first gold of the Paralympics, in the S14 100m butterfly

Louis Rees-Zammit joins the Jacksonville Jaguars practice squad after failing to make the Kansas City Chiefs' 53-player roster

Aug 30

US Open second round – Botic van de Zandschulp bt Carlos Alvarez

Transfer deadline day –

Aaron Ramsdale moves from Arsenal to Southampton

Sam Johnstone moves from Crystal Palace to Wolves

Scott McTominay moves from Man Utd to Napoli

Manuel Ugarte moves from Paris St-Germain to Man Utd

Eddie Nketiah moves from Arsenal to Crystal Palace

Aug 31

US Open third round – Alexei Popyrin bt Novak Djokovic

Joe Root hits 34th Test century, taking him past Alistair Cook’s record for the most centuries by an England batter

Joe Root takes 200th Test catch

Haaland hat-trick for Man City against West Ham

September

Sep 1

Italian GP – Leclerc, Piastri, Norris

Franco Colapinto (Argentina) replaces Logan Sargeant in the Williams team

Second Test (Lord’s) England 427 (Root 143, Atkinson 118, AM Fernando 5-102) and 251 (Root 103) Sri Lanka 196 and 292 (Atkinson 5-62). England won by 190 runs

Tour Championship and FedEx Cup – Scottie Scheffler. 2^nd Collin Morikawa

Curtis Cup (Sunningdale) – Great Britain and Ireland 10 ½ USA 9 ½

Sep 2

Transgender woman Valentina Petrillo reaches the semi-finals of the T12 women's 400 metres at the Paralympics

Sep 3

Brendon McCullum is appointed as England men's white-ball coach

Sep 4

US Open men’s quarter-final – Draper bt De Minaur

Sep 5

US Open women’s semi-finals – Pegula bt Muchova, Sabalenka bt Navarro

US Open mixed doubles final – Vavassori and Errani bt Young and Townsend

San Marino win a competitive match for the first time with victory against Liechtenstein in the Nations League

Sep 6

US Open men’s semi-finals – Sinner bt Draper, Fritz bt Tiafoe

US Open women’s doubles final – Kichenok and Ostapenko bt Mladenovic and Zhang

Josh Hull makes debut for England against Sri Lanka

Philadelphia Eagles bt Green Bay Packers in Sao Paulo. First NFL game played in South America

Sep 7

Ron Yeats dies

Republic of Ireland 0 England 2 (Rice, Grealish). Lee Carsley’s first match as England interim manager

US Open women’s singles final – Sabalenka bt Pegula

US Open men’s doubles final – Purcell and Thompson bt Krawietz and Puetz

Sep 8

US Open men’s singles final – Sinner bt Fritz

Burghley Horse Trials – Ros Canter, riding Lordships Graffalo

Vuelta e Espana – Primoz Roglic (Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe). Fourth title

Paralympics ends. Final medal table – 1^st China (94-76-50) 220 2^nd GB (49-44-31) 124 3^rd USA (36-42-27) 105

GB won 18 gold medals and 32 medals in total in swimming

GB’s most successful medalists were para-swimmer Poppy Maskill (3 golds and 2 silvers), para-swimmer Alice Tai (2 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronzes) and wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn (1 gold and 4 silvers)

Sarah Storey won two gold medals, taking her total to 30 medals, including 19 golds

Hannah Cockroft won two gold medals, taking her total to nine medals, all of them gold

Tour of Britain – Stephen Williams

Sep 9

Third Test (The Oval) England 325 (Pope 154) and 156 Sri Lanka 263 and 219-2 (Nissanka 127*). Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets

England win the series 2-1

Ireland bowled out for 45 by England in women’s ODI

Sep 10

Harry Kane wins 100th cap for England, against Finland

Angel Gomes makes England debut

Adrian Newey joins Aston Martin Formula 1 team

Mauricio Pochettino is appointed as manager of USA

Sep 11

Essex are docked 12 points by the Cricket Discipline Commission after one of their players used an oversized bat

Sep 12

Matthew Potts takes 9-68 for Durham against Lancashire

Archie Vaughan takes 11 wickets for Somerset in the match against Surrey. Son of Michael Vaughan

Sep 14

T20 Blast Finals Day (Edgbaston). Semi-finals – Somerset bt Surrey, Gloucestershire bt Sussex Sharks. Final – Gloucestershire bt Somerset

St Leger – Jan Brueghel (Sean Levey), trained by Aidan O’Brien

Diamond League finals (Brussels, Memorial Van Damme) –

Men’s 100m – Ackeem Blake

Men’s 200m – Kenny Bednarek

Men’s 400m – Charlie Dobson

Men’s 800m – Emmanuel Wanyonyi

Men’s 1500m – Jakob Ingebritsen

Men’s long jump – Tajay Gayle

Men’s high jump – Gianmarco Tamberi

Men’s pole vault – Armand Duplantis

Women’s 100m – Julien Alfred

Women’s 200m – Brittany Brown

Women’s 400m – Marileidy Paulino

Women’s 800m – Mary Moraa

Women’s 1500m – Faith Kipyegon

Women’s 5000m – Beatrice Chebet

Women’s 400m hurdles – Femke Bol

Women’s high jump – Yaroslava Mahuchikh

Women’s pole vault – Nina Kennedy

Sep 15

Solheim Cup (Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainsville, Virginia) USA 15 ½ Europe 12 ½. Lilia Vu holed the winning putt. Charley Hull beat Nelly Korda in the first singles match. Rose Zhang was the only player to win all her matches

Team captains – Stacy Lewis (USA) and Suzann Pettersen (Europe)

Irish Open – Rasmus Hojgaard

Davis Cup qualifier (Manchester) Canada bt GB

Azerbaijan GP – Piastri, Leclerc, Russell

World Series of Darts final – Luke Littler bt Michael Smith

IndyCar Series – Alex Palou (Spain). Third win

Sep 16

Gary Shaw dies

Sep 17

Brest and Girona make Champions League debuts. This season there are 36 teams, who play 8 games in a single league

Champions League – Bayern Munich 9 (Kane 4) Dinamo Zagreb 2

League Cup 3rd round – Man Utd 7 Barnsley 0

Preston 1 Fulham 1. Preston win 16-15 on penalties

Sep 18

Toto Schillaci dies

Sep 20

Shohei Ohtani becomes the first player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season

Sep 21

Daniel Dubois beats Anthony Joshua in five rounds in front of 96,000 fans at Wembley to retain the IBF heavyweight title

Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships start in Zurich

League Leaders’ Shield – Wigan Warriors

Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy final – Sunrisers bt South East Stars

Sep 22

Women’s time trial – Grace Brown (Australia)

Men’s time trial – Remco Evenepoel (Belgium)

Singapore GP – Norris, Verstappen, Piastri

Brian Huggett dies

BMW PGA Championship – Billy Horschel

Erling Haaland scores his 100th goal for Man City in his 105th appearance

Laver Cup – Team Europe bt Team World

English Open snooker final – Neil Robertson bt Wu Yize

Sep 23

One Day Cup final (Trent Bridge) Glamorgan bt Somerset

Erling Haaland tells Mikel Arteta to “stay humble, eh”

Sep 24

EFL Cup third round – Chelsea 5 (Nkunku 3) Barrow 0

Sep 26

Daniel Ricciardo is replaced at RB by Liam Lawson for the remainder of the Formula 1 season

UCI Road Cycling World Championships start in Zurich

Sep 27

Clive Everton dies

Sep 28

Women’s road race – Lotte Kopecky (Belgium)

The Rugby Championship – South Africa

Cole Palmer scores four goals for Chelsea against Brighton

Chicago White Sox break the modern-day record for most losses in a Major League Baseball season with their 121st defeat

AFL Grand Final – Brisbane Lions bt Sydney Swans

Cambridgeshire Handicap – Liberty Lane

Speedway Grand Prix – Bartosz Zmarzlik (Poland). Fifth world title

Eben Etzebeth wins 128th cap, breaking Victor Matfield's South African record

Sep 29

Men’s road race – Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia)

Pogacar wins the 'Triple Crown' of the men's Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and world title in the same year

County Championship – Surrey. Runners-up – Hampshire. Relegated – Lancashire, Kent

Division 2 – Sussex. Promoted – Yorkshire

Presidents Cup (Montreal) – United States team bt International team. Captains – Jim Furyk and Mike Weir

British Open snooker final – Selby bt Higgins

Sep 30

GMR Group, which co-owns the Delhi Capitals of the Indian Premier League, complete a takeover of Hampshire

October

Oct 1

Champions League – Borussia Dortmund 7 Celtic 1

Oct 2

PCA Player of the Year – Liam Dawson

Young Player – Jamie Smith

Women’s Player – Kathryn Bryce

Oct 3

Women’s T20 World Cup starts in UAE. The tournament was relocated due to political unrest in Bangladesh

Oct 4

Great Britain will compete for the America's Cup for the first time since 1964 after beating Luna Rossa Italy 7-4 in a qualifying event in Barcelona

Oct 6

Women's Super League Grand Final – York Valkyrie bt St Helens

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Bluestocking

Alfred Dunhill Links Championship – Tyrell Hatton

NRL Grand Final – Penrith Panthers bt Melbourne Storm

British Touring Car Championship – Jake Hill

Oct 7

Brydon Carse makes debut for England against Pakistan

Johan Neeskens dies

Oct 9

Joe Root breaks Alistair Cook’s England record of 12,472 runs in Test matches

Jurgen Klopp is appointed global head of soccer at Red Bull

Steve Prescott Man of Steel – Mikey Lewis (Hull KR)

Woman of Steel – Georgie Hetherington (York Valkyrie)

Oct 10

Former Sheffield Utd and Greece player George Baldock dies

Friendly international – England 1 Greece 2

Oct 11

First Test (Multan) Pakistan 556 (Shan Masood 151, Abdullah Shafique 102, Salman Ali Agha 104*) and 220 England 823-7 (Brook 317, Root 262). England won by an innings and 47 runs

Brook and Root added 454 for the fourth wicket

Oct 12

Super League Grand Final – Wigan bt Hull KR. Only try scored by Bevan French, who won the inaugural Rob Burrow award for Man of the Match

Cesarewitch – Alphonse Le Grande

Italy's Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli win the first-ever Women's America's Cup after beating Britain's Athena Pathway in the final

England bt Canada to retain WXV1 women’s rugby union title

Artur Beterbiev bt Dmitry Bivol to become the undisputed light-heavyweight world champion

Oct 13

World Grand Prix final – Mike De Decker (Belgium) bt Luke Humphries

Ruth Chepngetich breaks the 2 hours 10 minutes barrier at the Chicago Marathon

Dean Henderson makes England debut against Finland

British Superbike Championship – Kyle Ryde

Oct 15

Thomas Tuchel will become head coach of England on 1 January 2025

Women’s T20 World Cup group stage – West Indies bt England. England won their other three matches but were eliminated on net run-rate

Oct 16

UCI Track Cycling World Championships start in Ballerup, Denmark

Women’s team sprint – GB (Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane)

Oct 17

Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final – South Africa bt Australia

Women’s team pursuit – GB (Jessica Roberts, Katie Archibald, Josie Knight, Anna Morris)

Champion flat jockey – Oisin Murphy

Champion flat trainer – Aidan O’Brien

Oct 18

Second Test (Multan) Pakistan 366 (Ghulam 118) and 221 England 291 (Duckett 114, (Sajid Khan 7-111) and 144 (Noman Ali 8-46). Pakistan won by 152 runs

Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final – New Zealand bt West Indies

Newcastle Falcons beat Exeter Chiefs to end their 25-match losing run

Women’s sprint – Emma Finucane

Oct 19

America’s Cup – New Zealand bt Great Britain 7-2. Held in Barcelona

The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron was represented by Taihoro, sailed by Emirates Team New Zealand and skippered by Peter Burling

The Royal Yacht Squadron was represented by Britannia, sailed by INEOS Britannia and skippered by Ben Ainslie

RFL Championship Grand Final – Wakefield Trinity bt Toulouse Olympique

Oct 20

Women’s T20 World Cup final (Dubai) – New Zealand bt South Africa

World Triathlon Championship Series Finals. Men’s – Alex Yee. Women’s – Cassandre Beaugrand (France) 2^nd Beth Potter

US Grand Prix – Leclerc, Sainz, Verstappen. 9^th Liam Lawson 10^th Franco Colapinto

WNBA Finals – New York Liberty bt Minnesota Lynx

Superbike World Championships – Toprak Razgatlıoglu (Turkey)

Women’s individual pursuit – Anna Morris

Netherlands, Great Britain and Denmark all won four gold medals

Oct 22

LeBron James and his son Bronny make history as the first father-son duo to share the court in an NBA game

Oct 23

Wakefield Trinity will replace London Broncos in Super League for 2025 having been awarded Grade A status

Geoff Capes dies

Oct 24

The New Saints (TNS) become the first domestic Welsh club to win in the group stage of a major European competition, beating FC Astana in the UEFA Conference League

Fenerbahçe manager Jose Mourinho is sent off during Europa League match against Man Utd

Oct 25

Freddie Freeman hits the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in game one

Oct 26

Third Test (Rawalpindi) England 267 (Sajid Khan 6-128) and 112 (Noman Ali 6-42) Pakistan 344 (Saud Shakeel 134) and 37-1. Pakistan won by nine wickets

Pakistan win series 2-1

Oct 27

European Darts Championship final – Ritchie Edhouse bt Jermaine Wattimena

Mexican GP – Sainz, Norris, Leclerc

Jack Draper beats Karen Khachanov in Vienna to win his first ATP 500 event

Oct 28

Erik ten Hag sacked as Man Utd manager. Ruud van Nistelrooy is appointed as interim manager

Ballon d’Or – Rodri

Women’s Ballon d’Or – Aitana Bonmati

Kopa Trophy – Lamine Yamal

Coach of the Year – Carlo Ancelotti

Women’s Coach of the Year – Emma Hayes

Oct 30

World Series – Los Angeles Dodgers bt New York Yankees.  MVP – Freddie Freeman

American League MVP – Aaron Judge (New York Yankees)

National League MVP – Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Dodgers)

League Cup last 16 – Spurs bt Man City

Oct 31

Trevor Whymark dies

John Turner, Jordan Cox, Dan Mousley and Jamie Overton make England debuts in ODI against West Indies

November

Nov 1

Sporting CP coach Ruben Amorim is appointed as manager of Man Utd

League of Ireland – Shelbourne

Nov 2

England 22 New Zealand 24. Winning try scored by Mark Tele’a. George Ford missed a drop goal with the last play of the match

Breeders’ Cup Classic – Sierra Leone. City of Troy finishes eighth in his last race

Nov 3

Brazilian GP – Verstappen, Ocon, Gasly

Joe Marler retires from international rugby

Nov 5

Luiz Diaz hat-trick for Liverpool against Bayer Leverkusen

Viktor Gyokeres hat-trick for Sporting CP against Man City

Aston Villa defender Tyrone Mings concedes a penalty for picking the ball up inside the penalty area, not realizing that the ball was in play in a Champions League match gt`1 Club Brugge

Melbourne Cup – Knight’s Choice, at odds of 90-1. Ridden by Irish jockey Robbie Dolan, who was previously best known as a contestant on ‘The Voice Australia’

Cricket Writers' Club awards –

Bob Willis Trophy – Gus Atkinson

Young Cricketer – Shoaib Bashir

Women’s Cricket Award – Sophie Ecclestone

Nov 7

UEFA Conference League – Chelsea 8 FC Noah 0. Noah are an Armenian team named after the biblical patriarch

Nov 8

WTA Tour semi-finals – Zheng Qinwen bt Barbora Krejcikova, Coco Gauff bt Aryna Sabalenka

Nov 9

England 37 Australia 42. Winning try scored by Max Jorgensen

WTA Tour final (Saudi Arabia) Gauff bt Zheng

Doubles final – Dabrowski and Routledge bt Siniakova and Townsend

Nov 10

Mark Cavendish wins his final race in Singapore before retirement

NASCAR Cup Series – Joey Logano

International Championship snooker final – Ding Junhui bt Chris Wakelin

Nov 14

Curtis Jones scores on England debut against Greece in Nations League match

Nov 15

Jake Paul bt Mike Tyson. Fight held at AT&T Stadium in Texas

Katie Taylor bt Amanda Serrano

Nov 17

Rory McIlroy wins the DP World Tour Championship and his sixth Race to Dubai title

ATP World Tour Finals (Turin) –

Singles final – Sinner bt Fritz

Doubles final –Putz and Krawietz bt Arevalo and Pavic

Helioevaara and Patten were beaten in the semi-finals

Nations League – England 5 Ireland 0. Anthony Gordon, Conor Gallagher, Jarrod Bowen, and Taylor Harwood-Bellis all score their first goals for England. Debuts for Taylor Harwood-Bellis. Lewis Hall and Tino Livramento

England earn promotion to Nations League top tier

Grand Slam of Darts final (Wolverhampton) – Luke Littler 16 Martin Lukeman 3

Champion of Champions final – Mark Williams bt Xiao Guodong

Grey Cup – Toronto Argonauts bt Winnipeg Blue Bombers

MotoGP – Jorge Martin (Spain), riding a Ducati

Constructors’ champion – Ducati

Moto2 – Ai Ogura (Japan)

Moto3 – David Alonso (Colombia)

MotoE – Hector Garzo (Spain)

Nov 19

Billie Jean King (BJK) Cup Finals semi-final – Slovakia bt Great Britain

Davis Cup quarter-final – Netherlands bt Spain. Rafael Nadel retires after losing his match to Botic van de Zandschulp

William Hill Sports Book of the Year – ‘The Racket’ by Conor Niland. Irish tennis player

Nov 20

Billie Jean King Cup Finals (Malaga) – Italy bt Slovakia. Lucia Bronnzetti and Jasmine Paolini won their singles matches

Nov 21

City of Troy named horse of the year at Cartier Racing Awards

Nov 23

UK Championship round of 32 – Hawkins bt O’Sullivan

Harry Kane reaches 50 Bundesliga goals in 43 matches

Wales are beaten by South Africa to extend their record losing run to 12 Tests in a row and complete a winless 2024

Nov 24

Las Vegas GP – Russell, Hamilton, Sainz

Verstappen finishes fifth and wins his fourth consecutive world title, with two races to spare

Davis Cup final (Malaga) – Italy bt Netherlands. Matteo Berrettini and Jannik Sinner won their singles matches

World Rally Championship – Thierry Neuville (Belgium), driving a Hyundai i20

Steve Cooper is sacked as manager of Leicester City

Players Championship final (Minehead) – Humphries bt Littler

World Rugby player of the year awards –

Men – Pieter-Steph du Toit

Women – Ellie Kildunne

Nov 26

Zambia and Orlando Pride forward Barbra Banda is voted BBC Women's Footballer of the Year

Zhang Anda makes maximum 147 break at UK Championship

Man City draw with Feyenoord, after leading3-0

Real Tennis British Open – Camden Riviere (USA)

Nov 27

Jacob Bethell makes England debut against New Zealand

Nov 28

Sri Lanka bowled out for 42 by South Africa. Marco Jansen takes 7-13

Frank Lampard appointed as manager of Coventry City

Iga Swiatek accepts a one-month suspension after testing positive for a banned substance

Nov 29

Ruud van Nistelrooy is appointed as new manager of Leicester City

Dakota Ditcheva becomes the first British woman to win an MMA world title

Nov 30

Justin Kluivert becomes the first man in the Premier League era to score a hat-trick of penalties, for Bournemouth against Wolves

Kevin Schade hat-trick for Brentford against Leicester

Cian Healy wins 134th cap, breaking Brian O'Driscoll's Irish record

Copa Libertadores final – Botafogo bt Atletico Mineiro