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Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffers cardiac arrest during match against Cincinnati Bengals
 
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffers cardiac arrest during match against Cincinnati Bengals
  
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PDC semi-finals – Michael Smith bt Gabriel Clemens (Germany), Michael van Gerwyn bt Dimitri Van den Bergh (Belgium)
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PDC semi-finals – Michael Smith bt Gabriel Clemens (Germany), Michael van Gerwen bt Dimitri Van den Bergh (Belgium)
  
 
Jan 3
 
Jan 3
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Australian Open women’s singles semi-finals – Rybakina bt Azarenka, Sabalenka bt Magda Linette (Poland)
 
Australian Open women’s singles semi-finals – Rybakina bt Azarenka, Sabalenka bt Magda Linette (Poland)
  
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ICC Cricketer of the Year awards –  
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ICC Cricketer of the Year awards –
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Men's Cricketer of the Year (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy) – Babar Azam
  
 
Men's Test Cricketer of the Year – Ben Stokes
 
Men's Test Cricketer of the Year – Ben Stokes
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Men's T20 Cricketer of the Year – Suryakumar Yadav
 
Men's T20 Cricketer of the Year – Suryakumar Yadav
  
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Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy – Babar Azam
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Women’s Cricketer of the Year (Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy) – Nat Sciver-Brunt
  
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Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy – Nat Sciver
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Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year – Nat Sciver-Brunt
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Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year – Nat Sciver
 
  
 
Women's T20 Cricketer of the Year – Tahlia McGrath
 
Women's T20 Cricketer of the Year – Tahlia McGrath
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Big Bash League final – Perth Scorchers bt Brisbane Heat
 
Big Bash League final – Perth Scorchers bt Brisbane Heat
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Amanda Serrano bt Erika Cruz to become undisputed world featherweight champion
  
 
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Feb 8
  
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FIFA Club World Cup semi-final – Real Madrid by Al Ahly (Egypt)
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FIFA Club World Cup semi-final – Real Madrid bt Al Ahly (Egypt)
  
 
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Feb 16
  
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Women’s giant slalom – Shriffrin
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Women’s giant slalom – Shiffrin
  
 
Welsh Open round of 32 – Adam Wells bt Trump
 
Welsh Open round of 32 – Adam Wells bt Trump
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Snowboard slopestyle – Mia Brookes, who becomes Great Britain's youngest world champion in snowboarding history at the age of 16
 
Snowboard slopestyle – Mia Brookes, who becomes Great Britain's youngest world champion in snowboarding history at the age of 16
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Jurgen Klinsmann appointed as manager of South Korea
  
 
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West Indies defeated Australia in 1993 in the only other Test match to have been won by one run
 
West Indies defeated Australia in 1993 in the only other Test match to have been won by one run
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== March ==
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Mar 1
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Just Fontaine dies
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FA Cup fifth round – Grimsby bt Southampton
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Mar 2
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Mixed snowboard team cross – GB (Huw Nightingale and Charlotte Bankes)
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European Athletics Indoor Championships start in Istanbul
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Mar 4
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Philip Billing scores after 9 seconds for Bournemouth against Arsenal
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Ski halfpipe. Silver – Zoe Atkin
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1500m – Laura Muir
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Mumbai Indians bt Gujarat Giants in the first game of the Indian Women’s Premier League
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World Women’s Snooker Championship – Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan (Thailand)
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Mar 5
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Formula One teams –
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Red Bull – Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez
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Ferrari – Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz
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Mercedes – Lewis Hamilton, George Russell
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Aston Martin – Fernando Alonso, Lance Stroll
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McLaren – Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri (Australia)
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Williams – Logan Sargeant (USA), Alexander Albon
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AlphaTauri – Nyck de Vries (Netherlands), Yuki Tsunoda
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Alpine – Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon
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Haas – Kevin Magnussen, Nico Hulkenberg
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Alfa Romeo – Valtteri Bottas, Zhou Guanyu
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Bahrain GP – Verstappen, Perez, Alonso
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Liverpool 7 Man Utd 0
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Salah breaks Robbie Fowler's record of 128 Premier League goals for Liverpool
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Women’s League Cup final – Arsenal bt Chelsea
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800m – Keely Hodgkinson
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Long jump – Jazmin Sawyers
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UK Open darts championship – Andrew Gilding bt Michael van Gerwen
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HSBC Women’s World Championships – JY Ko (South Korea)
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Mar 7
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Champions League Round of 16 – AC Milan bt Spurs
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Mar 11
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Six Nations – England 10 France 53
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Six Nations – Wales bt Italy
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Mikaela Shiffrin becomes the greatest Alpine skier of all time with her 87th World Cup win, surpassing the record of 86 held by Swede Ingemar Stenmark since 1989
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Mar 12
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Six Nations – Ireland bt Scotland
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Players Championship (Sawgrass) – Scottie Scheffler. 2<sup>nd</sup> Tyrell Hatton
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Aaron Rai made a hole-in-one at the 17th hole
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Mar 13
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Dick Fosbury dies
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Mar 14
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Champions League Round of 16 – Man City 7 (Haaland (5)) RB Leipzig 0
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Fifa switch the format for the expanded 2026 World Cup back to four-team groups
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Champion Hurdle – Constitution Hill (Nico de Boinville), trained by Nicky Henderson. 2<sup>nd</sup> State Man 3<sup>rd</sup> Zanahiyr
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Mares’ Hurdle – Honeysuckle (Rachael Blackmore)
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Bangladesh bt England 3-0 in T20 series
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Mar 15
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Queen Mother Champion Chase – Energumene
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Cross Country Chase – Delta Work
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Champions League Round of 16 – Real Madrid bt Liverpool
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Mar 16
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Ryanair Chase – Envoi Allen
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Stayers’ Hurdle – Sire Du Berlais
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Europa League Round of 16 – Sporting Lisbon bt Arsenal
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Women’s snooker pioneer Vera Selby dies
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Mar 17
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Crystal Palace manager Patrick Vieira is sacked
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Gold Cup – Galopin des Champs (Paul Townend), trained by Willie Mullins. 2<sup>nd</sup> Bravemansgame 3<sup>rd</sup> Conflated 4<sup>th</sup> Noble Yeats
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Prestbury Cup – Ireland bt GB
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Leading Jockey – Paul Townend
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Leading Trainer – Willie Mullins
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Mar 18
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Six Nations – Scotland bt Italy. Hat-trick for Blair Kinghorn
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Six Nations – Wales bt France. 100th cap for Taulupe Faletau
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Six Nations – Ireland bt England. Freddie Steward sent off. 100th cap for Dan Cole
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Johnny Sexton surpasses Ronan O'Gara (557 points) as the Six Nations' record scorer
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Ireland's first Grand Slam in five years, and first win in Dublin
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Final table – Ireland, France, Scotland, England, Wales, Italy
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Leading points scorer – Thomas Ramos (84)
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Leading try scorer – Damian Penaud (5)
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Player of the tournament – Antoine Dupont
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FA Cup quarter-final – Man City 6 (Haaland (3)) Burnley 0
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Pakistan Super League final – Lahore Qalandars bt Multan Sultans
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Mar 19
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FA Cup quarter-final – Brighton 5 Grimsby 0
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Premiership Rugby Cup final – Exeter Chiefs bt London Irish
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Saudi Arabia GP – Perez, Verstappen, Russell
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Indian Wells Masters. Men’s – Alcaraz. Women’s – Rybakina
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Alpine Ski World Cup –
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Men’s overall – Marco Odermatt (Switzerland)
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Men’s downhill – Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (Norway)
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Women’s overall – Mikaela Shiffrin (USA)
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Women’s downhill – Sofia Goggia (Italy)
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Men’s Ski Jumping World Cup – Halvor Egner Granerud (Norway)
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Women’s Ski Jumping World Cup – Eva Pinkelnig (Austria)
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Mar 21
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World Baseball Classic final – Japan bt USA
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Roy Hodgson appointed as manager of Crystal Palace
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Mar 22
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World Figure Skating Championships start in Japan
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Mar 23
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Harry Kane scores against Italy to become England's all-time top goalscorer with his 54th goal, breaking Wayne Rooney's record. Luke Shaw sent off. Match played in Diego Armando Maradona Stadium, Naples
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Cristiano Ronaldo makes a world-record 197th men's international appearance in Portugal's match against Liechtenstein
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Mar 24
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Thomas Tuchel replaces Julian Nagelsmann as manager of Bayern Munich
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Women’s singles – Kaori Sakamoto (Japan)
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Mar 25
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Men’s singles – Shoma Uno (Japan)
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Ilia Malinin (USA) lands a quadruple axel for the first time on the world stage
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Ice Dance – Madison Chock and Evan Bates (USA). 4<sup>th</sup> Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson (UK)
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Dubai World Cup – Ushba Tesoro
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Women’s Six Nations – England bt Scotland. Sarah Hunter retires after winning 141 caps
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Mar 26
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WPL final – Mumbai Indians bt Delhi Capitals
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Scottish Challenge Cup final – Hamilton Academical bt Raith Rovers
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Cambridge win men’s and women’s boat races
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South Africa chase down 259, the highest pursuit in T20 history, to beat West Indies in T20 international
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Ivan Toney makes England debut, against Ukraine
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World Match Play Championship final – Sam Burns bt Cameron Young. Third-place play-off – McIlroy bt Scheffler
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BBL Trophy final – Caledonia Gladiators bt Cheshire Phoenix
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WBBL Trophy final – London Lions bt Leicester Riders
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Mar 27
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Antonio Conte leaves Spurs by mutual consent
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Mar 28
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Euro 2024 qualifying Group A – Scotland 2 (McTominay (2)) Spain 0
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Mar 29
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Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger become the first managers to be inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame
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== April ==
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Apr 1
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Ken Buchanan dies
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Lincoln Handicap – Migration
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Apr 2
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Australian GP – Verstappen, Hamilton, Alonso. The race finished under a safety car after three red flags
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Papa Johns EFL Trophy final – Bolton bt Plymouth
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Brendan Rodgers sacked as manager of Leicester
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Graham Potter sacked as manager of Chelsea
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Tour Championship snooker final – Shaun Murphy bt Kyren Wilson
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Apr 3
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WWE and the Endeavor Group, the owners of mixed martial arts franchise UFC, are to form a new £17.3 billion sports entertainment brand
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Apr 4
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Amir Khan banned for two years after an anti-doping test revealed the presence of a banned substance following his fight against Kell Brook in 2022
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Reading given six-point deduction for breaching EFL business plan
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Fulham's Aleksandar Mitrovic is given an eight-match ban after pushing referee Chris Kavanagh in their FA Cup loss at Manchester United
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Switzerland will host the 2025 Uefa Women's European Championship
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Apr 5
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Masters par 3 contest – Tom Hoge. Seamus Power hits back-to-back hole-in-ones
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Frank Lampard to manage Chelsea until the end of the season
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Apr 6
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Women's Finalissima (Wembley) – England bt Brazil
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Apr 8
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Son Heung-min becomes the first Asian player to score 100 goals in the Premier League
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Apr 9
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The Masters – Jon Rahm. 2<sup>nd</sup> Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka
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Apr 10
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Irish Grand National – I Am Maximus
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Dean Smith appointed as manager of Leicester City until the end of the season
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Apr 11
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Australia end England’s 30 match unbeaten run in women’s football. England's first ever loss under Sarina Wiegman
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European Gymnastics Championships start in Antalya, Turkey
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Apr 12
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Proposed stadiums for joint Ireland and United Kingdom bid for the UEFA Euro 2028 includes Everton Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock and Casement Park in Belfast
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Apr 13
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Aintree Hurdle – Constitution Hill
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Aintree Bowl – Shishkin
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Apr 14
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Melling Chase – Pic d’Orhy
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Topham Chase – Bill Baxter
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Harry Brook makes his maiden Indian Premier League century for Sunrisers Hyderabad
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Women’s all-around – Jessica Gadirova
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Apr 15
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Grand National – Corach Rambler (Derek Fox), trained by Lucinda Russell. 2<sup>nd</sup> Vanillier 3<sup>rd</sup> Gaillard 4<sup>th</sup> Noble Yeats. Race delayed by animal rights activists. Hill Sixteen died during the race
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Billie Jean Cup qualifier (Coventry) – France bt Great Britain
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Heavyweight boxer Joe Joyce suffers first pro loss, to China’s Zhilei Zhang
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Men’s floor – Luke Whitehouse
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Apr 16
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Chris Ashton becomes the first player to score 100 Premiership tries
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Arjun Tendulkar, the son of Sachin, makes his Indian Premier League debut for Mumbai Indians
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Women’s floor – Jessica Gadirova
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Jake Jarman won two gymnastics silver medals and a bronze medal
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World Snooker Championship first round – Neil Robertson makes two 146 breaks against Wu Yize
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Apr 17
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Play is disrupted at the World Snooker Championship after a protester climbed on to a table and covered it in an orange powder
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Leeds 1 Liverpool 6
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Quarterback Jalen Hurts agrees a new deal with the Philadelphia Eagles that makes him the highest-paid player in NFL history
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Wisden leading cricketer in the world – Ben Stokes
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Cricketers of the Year – Tom Blundell, Ben Foakes, Harmanpreet Kaur, Daryl Mitchell, Matthew Potts
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Apr 18
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Champions League quarter-finals – Real Madrid bt Chelsea, AC Milan bt Napoli
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Apr 19
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World Snooker Championship first round – Kyren Wilson 147 against Ryan Day
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World Snooker Championship first round – Anthony McGill bt Judd Trump
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Champions League quarter-finals – Man City bt Bayern Munich, Inter Milan bt Benfica
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Apr 20
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World Snooker Championship first round – Si Jiahui bt Shaun Murphy
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Europa League quarter-final – Sevilla bt Man Utd
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Gloucestershire's Tom Price makes a hundred and takes a hat-trick on the same day
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Apr 22
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Scottish Grand National – Kitty’s Light
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FA Cup semi-final – Mahrez hat-trick for Man City against Sheffield Utd
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Wrexham bt Boreham Wood to win promotion from National League
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Apr 23
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London Marathon –
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Men’s – Kelvin Kiptum (Kenya), in 2 hours 1 minute 25 seconds, the second-fastest time ever
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Women’s – Sifan Hassan (Netherlands), in her first-ever marathon
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Men’s wheelchair – Marcel Hug (Switzerland). Fifth win
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Women’s wheelchair – Madison de Rozario (Australia)
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FA Cup semi-final – Man Utd bt Brighton
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Newcastle Utd 6 Spurs 1. Newcastle scored five goals in the first 21 minutes
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Chevron Championship – Lilia Vu (USA)
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World’s Strongest Man – Mitchell Hooper (Canada). 2<sup>nd</sup> Tom Stoltman
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Apr 24
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Spurs interim manager Cristian Stellini is sacked after four matches in charge and replaced by Ryan Mason
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Champion jump jockey – Richard Hughes
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Champion jump trainer – Paul Nicholls
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Championship Player of the Year – Chuba Akpom (Middlesbrough)
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League One Player of the Year – Aaron Collins (Bristol Rovers)
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League Two Player of the Year – Sam Hoskins (Northampton)
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Aaron Rodgers moves from Green Bay Packers to New York Jets
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Apr 26
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Quarter-final – Luca Brecel bt O’Sullivan
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Man City 4 Arsenal 1
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Apr 27
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Women’s Champions League semi-final – Barcelona bt Chelsea
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NFL draft first pick – Bryce Young (Carolina Panthers)
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Apr 28
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Jim Fox dies
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Apr 29
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Women’s Six Nations – England 38 France 33. England win Grand Slam
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Final table – England, France, Wales, Scotland, Italy, Ireland
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Top scorer – Marlie Packer 35 (7 tries)
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Player of the tournament – Gabrielle Vernier (France)
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Brighton 6 Wolves 0
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World Snooker Championship semi-final – Luca Brecel 17 Si Jiahui 15. Brecel won 11 frames in a row
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World Snooker Championship semi-final – Mark Selby 17 Mark Allen 15
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European Champions Cup semi-final – Leinster bt Toulouse
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Sergio Perez wins first race in new ‘sprint’ format at Azerbaijan GP
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Apr 30
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Azerbaijan GP – Perez, Verstappen, Leclerc
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European Champions Cup semi-final – La Rochelle bt Exeter
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Tour de Romandie – Adam Yates
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== May ==
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May 1
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World Snooker Championship final – Luca Brecel 18 Mark Selby 15. Brecel is the first player from mainland Europe to win the title
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Mark Selby becomes the first player ever to make a maximum 147 break in the final of the World Snooker Championship
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Women’s Champions League semi-final – Wolfsburg bt Arsenal
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May 3
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Sam Allardyce replaces Javi Garcia as manager of Leeds
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John Mitchell to replace Simon Middleton as head coach of England rugby union women’s team
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Erling Haaland scores his 35th league goal of the season against West Ham to move past Alan Shearer and Andy Cole's previous best of 34
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Tori Bowie dies
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May 4
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Napoli draw at Udinese to win Serie A for the first time since 1990
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May 6
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2000 Guineas – Chaldean (Frankie Dettori), trained by Andrew Balding
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Kentucky Derby – Mage. Seven horses died in the build-up to the race
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World Snooker Tour Player of the Year – Mark Allen
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Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez bt John Ryder to retain undisputed super-middleweight crown
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Saracens finish top of Rugby Premiership
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May 7
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1000 Guineas – Mawj (Oisin Murphy), trained by Saeed bin Suroor
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World Seniors Snooker Championship final –Jimmy White bt Alfie Burden
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Miami GP – Verstappen, Perez, Alonso
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May 8
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Laureus Awards –
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Sportsman of the Year award – Lionel Messi
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Sportswoman of the Year award – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
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Team of the Year award – Argentina men's football team
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Breakthrough of the Year award – Carlos Alcaraz
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Comeback of the Year award – Christian Eriksen
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Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability award – Catherine Debrunner (Swiss para-athlete)
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Action Sportsperson of the Year award – Eileen Gu
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Sport for Good award – TeamUp (a programme for children displaced by war by Barcelona and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski)
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Badminton Horse Trials – Ros Canter, riding Lordships Graffalo
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May 10
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Premiership player of the year – Ollie Lawrence (Bath)
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May 11
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World Squash Championships (Chicago). Men – Ali Farag. Women – Nour El Sherbini
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May 12
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FWA footballers of the year. Men – Erling Haaland. Women – Sam Kerr
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May 13
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National League playoff final – Notts County bt Chesterfield
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Champions – Wrexham, with 111 points. Runners-up – Notts County, with 107 points
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Premiership semi-final – Saracens bt Northampton
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May 14
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Premiership semi-final – Sale bt Leicester
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Women’s FA Cup final – Chelsea 1 (Kerr) Man Utd 0
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Race leader Remco Evenepoel pulls out of the Giro d'Italia after testing positive for Covid-19
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PFA Scotland Premiership player of the year – Kyogo Furuhashi (Celtic)
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BBL Playoff final – London Lions bt Leicester Riders
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WBBL Playoff final – London Lions bt Leicester Riders
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May 16
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Champions League semi-final – Inter Milan bt AC Milan
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May 17
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Champions League semi-final – Man City bt Real Madrid
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Tao Geoghegan Hart crashes out of Giro d’Italia
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Ivan Toney banned from football for eight months after he accepted breaking Football Association betting rules
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May 18
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League One play-off semi-final – Sheffield Wednesday overturn a four goal deficit against Peterborough. This was the biggest come back in play-off history
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Europa Conference League semi-final – West Ham bt AZ Alkmaar
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Rugby Players' Association awards –
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Player’s player of the year – Jasper Wiese (Leicester Tigers)
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England player of the year – Freddie Steward (Leicester Tigers)
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Young player of the year – Tom Pearson (Northampton Saints)
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England women player of the year – Sadia Kabeya (Loughborough Lightning)
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May 19
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European Challenge Cup final (Dublin) – Toulon bt Glasgow Warriors
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Premiership Cup final – Exeter Chiefs bt London Irish
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NFL running back Jim Brown dies
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May 20
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Man City win Premier League title after Nottingham Forest beat Arsenal
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European Champions Cup final (Dublin) – La Rochelle 27 Leinster 26
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Undisputed light-welterweight title fight (Dublin) – Chantelle Cameron bt Katie Taylor
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Preakness Stakes – National Treasure
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Devin Haney bt Vasiliy Lomachenko to remain undisputed lightweight world champion
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May 21
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Emilia Romagna Grand Prix called off because of major flooding in the region
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US PGA Championship (Oak Hill, New York) – Brooks Koepka. Third win and fifth major. 2<sup>nd</sup> Viktor Hovland, Scottie Scheffler. Hole-in-one for Michael Block
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FA Vase final – Ascot United bt Newport Pagnell Town
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FA Trophy final – FC Halifax Town bt Gateshead
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World Rugby Sevens Series – New Zealand
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May 24
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Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year – “Unforgettable: Rugby, Dementia and the Fight of my Life” by Steve Thompson
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May 25
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Premier League Darts final – Van Gerwen bt Price
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May 26
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Sean Abbott (Surrey) equals the fastest T20 Blast century off 34 balls
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May 27
 +
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Championship play-off final – Luton 1 Coventry 1. Luton won 6-5 on penalties. Fankaty Dabo was the only player to miss in the penalty shootout. Luton last played in the top division in 1992
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Promoted – Burnley, Sheffield Utd, Luton
 +
 +
Relegated – Reading, Blackpool, Wigan Athletic
 +
 +
Leading scorer – Chuba Akpom (Middlesbrough) 28 goals
 +
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Chelsea win the Women's Super League for a fourth successive season
 +
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Bayern Munich win an 11th consecutive Bundesliga title, finishing ahead of Borussia Dortmund on goal difference
 +
 +
Premiership rugby final – Saracens bt Sale to win their sixth title. Man of the match – Owen Farrell
 +
 +
Premiership rugby top try scorer – Cadan Murley (Harlequins). 15 tries
 +
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Premiership rugby top points scorer – Paddy Jackson (London Irish). 205 points
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United Rugby Championship Grand Final – Munster bt Stormers
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May 28
 +
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Premier League – Man City, Arsenal, Man Utd, Newcastle
 +
 +
Relegated – Leicester, Leeds Utd, Southampton
 +
 +
Leading Scorer – Erling Haaland (Man City) 36 goals
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Everton bt Bournemouth in final match to avoid relegation
 +
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League Two play-off final – Carlisle bt Stockport
 +
 +
Promoted – Leyton Orient, Stevenage, Northampton, Carlisle
 +
 +
Relegated – Hartlepool, Rochdale
 +
 +
Leading scorer – Andy Cook (Bradford City) 28 goals
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Serie A – Napoli
 +
 +
La Liga – Barcelona
 +
 +
Bundesliga – Bayern Munich
 +
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Primeira Liga – Benfica
 +
 +
Ligue 1 (Le Championnat) – Paris Saint-Germain
 +
 +
Eredivisie – Feyenoord
 +
 +
Giro d’Italia – Primoz Roglic (Team Jumbo-Visma). 2<sup>nd</sup> Geraint Thomas
 +
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Monaco GP – Verstappen, Alonso, Ocon
 +
 +
Jeff Stelling leaves Sky Sports Soccer Saturday after 25 years as host
 +
 +
Indy 500 – Josef Newgarden
 +
 +
Bill Beaumont Cup final – Kent bt Lancashire
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May 29
 +
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League One play-off final – Sheffield Wednesday bt Barnsley
 +
 +
Promoted – Plymouth, Ipswich, Sheffield Wednesday
 +
 +
Relegated – Milton Keynes Dons, Morecambe, Accrington Stanley, Forest Green Rovers
 +
 +
Leading scorer – Conor Chaplin (Ipswich), Jonson Clarke-Harris (Peterborough) 28 goals
 +
 +
Mauricio Pochettino appointed as manager of Chelsea
 +
 +
IPL final – Chennai Super Kings bt Gujarat Titans. Fifth title for Chennai
 +
 +
Ravi Jadeja hit the last two balls for six and four to win the match for Chennai
 +
 +
Player of the series – Shubman Gill (Gujarat Titans)
 +
 +
Most runs (Orange Cap) – Shubman Gill
 +
 +
Most wickets (Purple Cup) – Mohammed Shami (Gujarat Titans)
 +
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May 30
 +
 +
Barclays Manager of the Season – Pep Guardiola
 +
 +
League Managers' Association manager of the year – Pep Guardiola
 +
 +
May 31
 +
 +
Europa League final (Budapest) – Sevilla bt Roma. Sevilla have now won all seven of the finals they have played in the competition
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== June ==
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Jun 2
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The Oaks – Soul Sister (Frankie Dettori), trained by John Gosden. Seventh win for Dettori
 +
 +
Faith Kipyegon breaks women's 1500m world record at the Diamond League meeting in Florence
 +
 +
Sam Allardyce leaves Leeds Utd
 +
 +
Jun 3
 +
 +
FA Cup final – Man City 2 (Gundogan 2) Man Utd 1 (Bruno Fernandez). Man of the match – Gundogan
 +
 +
Gundogan scored the quickest goal in FA Cup final history, after only 13 seconds
 +
 +
Epsom Derby – Auguste Rodin (Ryan Moore), trained by Aidan O’Brien. 2<sup>nd</sup> King of Steel. 3<sup>rd</sup> White Birch
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 +
Women’s Champions League final – Barcelona bt Wolfsburg
 +
 +
Test Match (Lords) Ireland 172 (Broad 5-51) & 362 (Adair 88, McBrine 86*, Tongue 5-66) England 524-4 dec (Pope 205, Duckett 182) & 12-0. England won by 10 wickets
 +
 +
Debut for Josh Tongue
 +
 +
Scottish Cup final – Celtic bt Inverness Caledonian Thistle
 +
 +
A-League Grand Final – Central Coast Mariners bt Melbourne City
 +
 +
Jun 4
 +
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Scottish Premiership final table – 1<sup>st</sup> Celtic 2<sup>nd</sup> Rangers
 +
 +
Leading scorer – Kyogo Furuhashi (Celtic) 27 goals
 +
 +
Relegated – Dundee United
 +
 +
Scottish Premiership play-off – Ross County bt Partick Thistle
 +
 +
Scottish Championship – Dundee
 +
 +
Scottish League One – Dunfermline
 +
 +
Scottish League Two – Stirling Albion
 +
 +
Highland League – Brechin City
 +
 +
Lowland League – Spartans
 +
 +
Scottish League Two play-off final – Spartans bt Albion Rovers
 +
 +
Spanish GP – Verstappen, Hamilton, Russell
 +
 +
Sue Redfern becomes the first woman to stand as an on-field umpire in the T20 Blast
 +
 +
Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi are disqualified from the French Open women’s doubles after Kato hit a ball girl with a ball
 +
 +
Jun 6
 +
 +
Ange Postecoglou leaves Celtic to become new Spurs manager
 +
 +
PGA Tour and DP World Tour agree to merge with Saudi Arabian-backed circuit LIV Golf
 +
 +
Liang Wenbo and Li Hang are handed lifetime bans for their involvement in snooker's biggest match-fixing scandal
 +
 +
London Irish are suspended from the Premiership after missing a deadline to pay players and staff
 +
 +
Karim Benzema moves from Real Madrid to Saudi Arabian champions Al-Ittihad
 +
 +
Jun 7
 +
 +
Europa Conference League final (Fortuna Arena, Prague) West Ham 2 (Benrahma, Bowen) Fiorentina 1 (Bonaventura)
 +
 +
West Ham’s first major trophy since winning the FA Cup in 1980
 +
 +
Jun 8
 +
 +
French Open mixed doubles final – Kato and Puetz bt Andreescu and Venus
 +
 +
French Open women’s singles semi-finals – Muchova bt Sabalenka, Swiatek bt Beatriz Haddad Maia (Brazil)
 +
 +
Jun 9
 +
 +
French Open men’s singles semi-finals – Djokovic bt Alcaraz, Ruud bt Zverev
 +
 +
Faith Kipyegon breaks women's 5000m world record at the Diamond League meeting in Paris
 +
 +
Jun 10
 +
 +
French Open women’s singles final – Swiatek bt Muchova. Third French Open title and fourth Grand Slam singles title
 +
 +
French Open men’s doubles final – Dodig and Krajicek bt Gille and Vliegen
 +
 +
Champions League final (Ataturk Stadium, Istanbul) Man City 1 (Rodri) Inter Milan 0
 +
 +
Man of the Match – Rodri
 +
 +
Belmont Stakes – Arcangelo
 +
 +
Jun 11
 +
 +
French Open men’s singles final – Djokovic bt Ruud. Third French Open title. Djokovic now has a record 23 Grand Slam tournament singles titles
 +
 +
French Open women’s doubles final – Hsieh and Wang bt Fernandez and Townsend
 +
 +
World Test Championship final (The Oval) Australia 469 (Head 163, Smith 121) and 270-8 India 296 and 234. Australia won by 209 runs
 +
 +
Charlotte Edwards Cup final – Southern Vipers bt The Blaze
 +
 +
The Blaze, previously known as Lightning, represent the East Midlands region
 +
 +
Netball Super League final – Loughborough Lightning bt London Pulse
 +
 +
Ferrari win the Le Mans 24 Hours 100th anniversary race, with a line-up including Britain's James Calado
 +
 +
Jun 12
 +
 +
Katie Boulter replaces Emma Raducanu as British number one women's player
 +
 +
NBA finals – Denver Nuggets bt Miami Heat
 +
 +
MVP – Nikola Jokic
 +
 +
Regular season MVP – Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers)
 +
 +
Jun 13
 +
 +
Former England and Wasps prop Paul Rendall dies
 +
 +
Stanley Cup – Vegas Golden Knights bt Florida Panthers
 +
 +
MVP – Jonathan Marchessault
 +
 +
Regular season MVP – Connor McDavid (Edmonton Oilers)
 +
 +
Jun 14
 +
 +
John Hollins dies
 +
 +
Jude Bellingham moves from Borussia Dortmund to Real Madrid
 +
 +
Surrey chase 501-5 to beat Kent. Dom Sibley makes the slowest first-class century ever made in the County Championship – both in terms of balls batted (363 balls) and time spent at the crease (502 minutes)
 +
 +
Nations League semi-final – Croatia bt Netherlands
 +
 +
Jun 15
 +
 +
Gordon McQueen dies
 +
 +
The all-female W Series motor racing championship enters administration
 +
 +
Nations League semi-final – Spain bt Italy
 +
 +
Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele record the US Open's first rounds of 62
 +
 +
Jun 16
 +
 +
Zak Crawley hits the first ball of The Ashes for four
 +
 +
Gino Mader dies during the Tour de Suisse
 +
 +
Jun 17
 +
 +
Top 14 final – Toulouse bt La Rochelle
 +
 +
King’s Birthday Honours –
 +
 +
CBE – Sarah Hunter
 +
 +
OBE – Ian Wright
 +
 +
MBE – Eniola Aluko, Fallon Sherrock
 +
 +
Jun 18
 +
 +
Canadian GP – Verstappen, Alonso, Hamilton
 +
 +
Nations League final (Rotterdam) – Spain bt Croatia
 +
 +
Nottingham Open men’s – Andy Murray bt Arthur Cazaux (France)
 +
 +
Nottingham Open women’s – Katie Boulter bt Jodie Burrage
 +
 +
First all-British WTA final since Sue Barker beat Virginia Wade in 1977
 +
 +
US Open (Los Angeles Country Club) – Wyndham Clark. 2<sup>nd</sup> McIlroy. 3<sup>rd</sup> Scheffler
 +
 +
World Cup of Darts final – Wales (Pryce and Clayton) bt Scotland (Wright and Anderson)
 +
 +
Andoni Iraola replaces Gary O’Neil as manager of Bournemouth
 +
 +
Jun 19
 +
 +
England 7 North Macedonia 0. Hat-trick for Saka. Match played at Old Trafford
 +
 +
Jun 20
 +
 +
St James’s Palace Stakes – Paddington. Trainer Aidan O'Brien’s record 83rd victory at Royal Ascot
 +
 +
Hollie Doyle becomes the first woman to ride a top-level Group One winner at Royal Ascot as Bradsell wins the King's Stand Stakes
 +
 +
First Test (Edgbaston) England 393-8 (Root 118*) & 273 Australia 386 (Khawaja 141) & 282-8 Australia won by two wickets
 +
 +
Ninth-wicket pair Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon added an unbroken 55
 +
 +
N’Golo Kante moves from Chelsea to Saudi Arabian champions Al-Ittihad
 +
 +
Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the first men's player to win 200 international caps
 +
 +
Jun 21
 +
 +
Southampton name Swansea boss Russell Martin as their new manager
 +
 +
Prince of Wales's Stakes – Mostahdaf
 +
 +
Royal Hunt Cup – Jimi Hendrix
 +
 +
Jun 22
 +
 +
Gold Cup – Courage Mon Ami (Frankie Dettori)
 +
 +
King George V Stakes – Desert Hero
 +
 +
Valiant Force wins the Norfolk Stakes at odds of 150-1 to become the joint biggest-priced winner at Royal Ascot
 +
 +
Victor Wembanyama chosen by San Antonio Spurs as first pick in NBA draft. Amen Thompson is selected with the No. 4 pick by the Houston Rockets and Ausar Thompson is taken with the No. 5 pick by the Detroit Pistons. They are identical twins
 +
 +
Jun 23
 +
 +
Coronation Stakes – Tahiyra
 +
 +
Leading jockey at Ascot – Ryan Moore
 +
 +
Leading trainer at Ascot – Aidan O’Brien
 +
 +
Ruben Neves moves from Wolves to Al-Hilal
 +
 +
Graeme Souness completes a swim across the English Channel to raise £1m for charity
 +
 +
Jun 24
 +
 +
Premier 15s final – Gloucester-Hartpury Women bt Exeter Chiefs Women
 +
 +
Super Rugby Pacific final – Crusaders bt Chiefs
 +
 +
Zharnel Hughes breaks Linford Christie's British men's 100m record, which had stood for 30 years
 +
 +
Jun 25
 +
 +
Queen’s Club Championships final – Alcaraz bt De Minaur
 +
 +
Birmingham Classic final – Ostapenko bt Krejcikova
 +
 +
Kalidou Koulibaly moves from Chelsea to Al-Hilal
 +
 +
European Athletics Team Championships won by Italy. GB finished fifth and won no individual gold medals. Held in Poland
 +
 +
Chicago Cubs and St Louis Cardinals draw MLB London Series 1-1
 +
 +
Women’s PGA – Yin Ruoning (China)
 +
 +
Jun 26
 +
 +
Manchester City captain Ilkay Gundogan joins Barcelona on a free transfer
 +
 +
Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are part of an investor group taking a 24% equity stake in Formula 1 team Alpine
 +
 +
Women’s Ashes Test (Trent Bridge) – Australia 473 (Sutherland 137*, Ecclestone 5-129) and 257 (Ecclestone 5-63) England 463 (Beaumont 208) and 178 (Gardner 8-66) Australia won by 89 runs
 +
 +
Tammy Beaumont scores England women's first double century and breaks Betty Snowball's 88-year-old individual record of 189
 +
 +
Craig Brown dies
 +
 +
Jun 27
 +
 +
Kent 621 against Northants. Daniel Bell-Drummond scores 300
 +
 +
Jun 28
 +
 +
Jonny Bairstow carries Just Stop Oil protestor off the field in second Test at Lord’s
 +
 +
Edouard Mendy moves from Chelsea to Al-Ahli
 +
 +
Kai Havertz moves from Chelsea to Arsenal
 +
 +
== July ==
 +
Jul 1
 +
 +
Eastbourne International final – Keys bt Kasatkina
 +
 +
Tour de France starts in Bilbao. Adam Yates beats identical twin brother Simon to win stage one
 +
 +
Joe Root takes his 176th catch, the highest by a player for England in Test cricket
 +
 +
Savannah Marshall becomes the undisputed super-middleweight champion
 +
 +
English Greyhound Derby – Gaytime Nemo
 +
 +
Jul 2
 +
 +
Second Test (Lord’s) Australia 416 (Smith 110) and 279 England 325 (Duckett 98) and 327 (Stokes 155) Australia won by 43 runs
 +
 +
Stokes hit nine sixes, the record for an Ashes innings
 +
 +
Bairstow was controversially given out after he wandered out of his ground as wicketkeeper Alex Carey threw the ball at the stumps
 +
 +
Dominik Szoboszlai moves from RB Leipzig to Liverpool
 +
 +
Austrian GP – Verstappen, Leclerc, Perez
 +
 +
Irish Derby – Auguste Rodin
 +
 +
Jul 3
 +
 +
Steven Gerrard is appointed manager of Saudi Arabian side Al-Ettifaq
 +
 +
Jul 4
 +
 +
Alessia Russo joins Arsenal on free transfer following her departure from Man Utd
 +
 +
Daniel Farke is appointed manager of Leeds Utd
 +
 +
Forest Green Rovers appoint Hannah Dingley as their new caretaker boss, making her the first woman to manage a professional men's team in English football
 +
 +
Jul 5
 +
 +
Jai Hindley takes the yellow jersey in Tour de France
 +
 +
Mason Mount moves from Chelsea to Man Utd
 +
 +
Jul 6
 +
 +
Wimbledon men’s singles second round – Broady bt Ruud
 +
 +
Granit Xhaka moves from Arsenal to Bayer Leverkusen
 +
 +
Jonas Vingegaard takes the yellow jersey in Tour de France
 +
 +
Georgian team Black Lion and South African side Cheetahs are invited to join the 2023-24 European Challenge Cup
 +
 +
Jul 7
 +
 +
Wimbledon men’s singles third round – Tsitsipas bt Murray, Eubanks bt Norrie, Shapovalov bt Broady
 +
 +
Jul 8
 +
 +
Euro Under-21 Championship final (Georgia) England 1 (Curtis Jones) Spain 0
 +
 +
England goalkeeper James Trafford saved a last-minute penalty
 +
 +
Wimbledon women’s singles third round – Rybakina bt Boulter
 +
 +
Eclipse Stakes – Paddington
 +
 +
Jul 9
 +
 +
Third Test (Headingley) Australia 263 (Marsh 118, Wood 5-34) and 224 England 237 (Cummins 6-91) & 254-7 (Starc 5-78) England won by three wickets
 +
 +
British GP – Verstappen, Norris, Hamilton
 +
 +
Cameron Smith wins LIV Golf London event
 +
 +
Stuart Hogg retires
 +
 +
U.S. Women’s Open (Pebble Beach) Allisen Corpuz (USA). 2<sup>nd</sup> Charley Hull
 +
 +
Jul 11
 +
 +
Wimbledon women’s singles quarter-final – Svitolina bt Swiatek
 +
 +
Daniel Ricciardo replaces Nyck de Vries at Alpha Tauri for the rest of the F1 season
 +
 +
Jul 12
 +
 +
State of Origin – Queensland Maroons bt New South Wales Blues
 +
 +
Jul 13
 +
 +
Wimbledon women’s singles semi-finals – Vondrousova bt Svitolina, Jabeur bt Sabalenka
 +
 +
Wimbledon mixed doubles final – Pavic and Kichenok bt Vliegen and Xu
 +
 +
Christian Pulisic moves from Chelsea to AC Milan
 +
 +
Texas Super Kings bt Los Angeles Knight Riders in first Major League Cricket match in Dallas
 +
 +
Jul 14
 +
 +
Wimbledon men’s singles semi-finals – Djokovic bt Sinner, Alcaraz bt Medvedev
 +
 +
Jurrien Timber moves from Ajax to Arsenal
 +
 +
World Aquatics Championships start in Fukuoka, Japan
 +
 +
Jul 15
 +
 +
Wimbledon women’s singles final – Vondrousova bt Jabeur
 +
 +
Vondrousova becomes the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon women's singles title
 +
 +
Wimbledon men’s doubles final – Skupski and Koolhof bt Granollers and Zeballos
 +
 +
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid win their fifth Wimbledon men's wheelchair doubles title together
 +
 +
Wimbledon wheelchair women’s singles – Diede de Groot (Netherlands). It was her eleventh consecutive major singles title
 +
 +
T20 Blast Finals Day (Edgbaston). Semi-finals – Essex Eagles bt Hampshire Hawks, Somerset bt Surrey
 +
 +
Final – Somerset bt Essex Eagles
 +
 +
Declan Rice moves from West Ham to Arsenal for £105 million
 +
 +
Lionel Messi signs for Inter Miami after leaving Paris Saint-Germain
 +
 +
Jul 16
 +
 +
Wimbledon men’s singles final – Alcaraz bt Djokovic
 +
 +
Wimbledon women’s doubles final – Hsieh and Strycova bt Mertens and Hunter
 +
 +
Wimbledon boy’s singles – Henry Searle. First British winner since Stanley Matthews in 1962
 +
 +
Scottish Open – McIlroy
 +
 +
Women's Ashes: Second ODI – Australia 282-7 England 279-7 (Sciver-Brunt 111). Australia retain the Women’s Ashes
 +
 +
Jul 19
 +
 +
Broad takes 600th Test wicket, dismissing Travis Head
 +
 +
Jul 20
 +
 +
Andre Onana moves from Inter Milan to Man Utd
 +
 +
Opening match in Women’s World Cup – New Zealand 1 (Wilkinson) Norway 0
 +
 +
Jul 21
 +
 +
Faith Kipyegon breaks the women's mile world record
 +
 +
Travis Smyth hits hole-in-one at The Open
 +
 +
Championship League Snooker final – Shaun Murphy bt Mark Williams
 +
 +
Jul 22
 +
 +
Challenge Cup semi-final – Leigh Leopards bt St Helens
 +
 +
England 1 (Stanway) Haiti 0
 +
 +
Jul 23
 +
 +
Fourth Test (Old Trafford) Australia 317 (Woakes 5-62) and 214-5 (Labuschagne 111) England 592 (Crawley 189, Bairstow 99*, Hazlewood 5-126). Match drawn
 +
 +
The Open (Royal Liverpool) Brian Harman -13, 2<sup>nd</sup> Jon Rahm, Jason Day, Sepp Straka, Joo-Hyung Kim -7
 +
 +
2024 Open will be held at Royal Troon
 +
 +
Zharnel Hughes breaks the British 200m record, set by John Regis in 1993
 +
 +
Tour de France – Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark, Team Jumbo-Visma) 2<sup>nd</sup> Tadej Pogacar, 3<sup>rd</sup> Adam Yates 4<sup>th</sup> Simon Yates
 +
 +
Points – Jasper Philipsen
 +
 +
Mountains – Guilio Ciccone
 +
 +
Youth – Tadej Pogacar
 +
 +
Combativity – Victor Campenaerts
 +
 +
Team – Team Jumbo-Visma
 +
 +
Challenge Cup semi-final – Hull KR bt Wigan
 +
 +
Hungarian GP – Verstappen, Norris, Perez
 +
 +
All-Ireland Hurling final – Limerick bt Kilkenny
 +
 +
Harvey Barnes moves from Leicester City to Newcastle Utd
 +
 +
World Matchplay darts final – Nathan Aspinall bt Jonny Clayton
 +
 +
Leon Marchand (France) breaks Michael Phelps’ world record in the 400m individual medley, then the longest-standing mark in the world
 +
 +
Jul 24
 +
 +
Trevor Francis dies
 +
 +
Women’s World Cup – Ary Borges hat-trick for Brazil against Panama
 +
 +
Jul 25
 +
 +
Men’s 200m freestyle – Matt Richards. Silver – Tom Dean
 +
 +
Jul 27
 +
 +
Jordan Henderson moves from Liverpool to Al-Ettifaq
 +
 +
Jul 28
 +
 +
England 1 (James) Denmark 0
 +
 +
Juventus are kicked out of this season's Europa Conference League by Uefa and fined for breaching Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules
 +
 +
Chelsea are fined £8 million for breaching FFP rules
 +
 +
Men’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay – GB (Scott, Richards, Guy, Dean)
 +
 +
Jul 29
 +
 +
Rugby Championship – New Zealand
 +
 +
Terence Crawford bt Errol Spence to become the four-belt era's first undisputed welterweight champion
 +
 +
Katie Ledecky wins the women's 800m freestyle in Fukuoka for a record 16th individual world gold and a record sixth in a single event
 +
 +
King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes – Hukum
 +
 +
Speedway World Cup – Poland. 2<sup>nd</sup> Great Britain
 +
 +
Clive Rowlands dies
 +
 +
Jul 30
 +
 +
Morocco defender Nouhaila Benzina makes history by becoming the first player to wear a hijab at a World Cup
 +
 +
World Aquatics Championships finish. China topped the medal table
 +
 +
Triple individual gold medallists Leon Marchand and Kaylee McKeown are named best male and female swimmers of the World Aquatics Championships
 +
 +
Backstroke swimmer Kaylee McKeown (Australia) became the first female in worlds history to complete the 50m, 100m and 200m treble in any stroke
 +
 +
Sarah Sjostrom wins a 21st individual world medal to surpass Michael Phelps’ tally
 +
 +
Belgian GP – Verstappen, Perez, Leclerc
 +
 +
All-Ireland Senior Football final – Dublin bt Kerry
 +
 +
Evian Championship – Celine Boutier (France)
 +
 +
Formula E World Championship – Jake Dennis, driving for Andretti Avalanche
 +
 +
Tour de France Femmes – Demi Vollering (Netherlands)
 +
 +
Senior Open Championship – Alex Cejka
 +
 +
Jul 31
 +
 +
Fifth Test (The Oval) England 283 and 395 Australia 295 and 334. England won by 49 runs. Series drawn 2-2
 +
 +
Player of the series (Compton-Miller Medal) – Chris Woakes
 +
 +
Stuart Broad hit a six with his final ball faced in Test cricket, and took the final wicket of Alex Carey
 +
 +
Stuart Broad retires. Played 165 Test matches, scored 3,640 runs and took 604 wickets. He has the Test cricket record for the most runs in both the 9 and 10 batting positions
 +
 +
== August ==
 +
Aug 1
 +
 +
England 6 (James (2), Russo, Hemp, Kelly, Daly) China 1
 +
 +
Goodwood Cup – Quickthorn
 +
 +
Aug 2
 +
 +
Brazil knocked out of Women’s World Cup after drawing with Jamaica. Marta played in her sixth tournament for Brazil
 +
 +
Sussex Stakes – Paddington
 +
 +
Aug 3
 +
 +
Germany knocked out of Women’s World Cup after drawing with South Korea
 +
 +
Cycling World Championships start in Glasgow
 +
 +
Aug 5
 +
 +
Josko Gvardiol moves from RB Leipzig to Man City
 +
 +
Rasmus Hojlund moves from Atalanta to Man Utd
 +
 +
Netball World Cup semi-finals – England bt New Zealand, Australia bt Jamaica
 +
 +
Leigh Halfpenny makes 100th appearance for Wales
 +
 +
Aug 6
 +
 +
USA knocked out of Women’s World Cup by Sweden
 +
 +
Netball World Cup final (Cape Town) – Australia bt England. Australia, known as the Australian Diamonds, win their 12th title
 +
 +
FA Community Shield – Arsenal bt Man City
 +
 +
Bryson DeChambeau hits 58 in final round to win LIV Golf Greenbrier title
 +
 +
Men’s Elite Road Race – Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands)
 +
 +
Aug 9
 +
 +
Former Bournemouth boss Gary O'Neil is announced as the new manager of Wolves
 +
 +
Spencer Johnson takes 3-1 from 20 balls for Oval Invincibles in The Hundred
 +
 +
Women’s time trial – Chloe Dygert (USA)
 +
 +
Aug 11
 +
 +
Erling Haaland scores first goal in the new Premier League season, against Burnley
 +
 +
Premier League shirt sponsors: Aston Villa – BK8, Burnley – W88, Luton Town – Utilita, Newcastle Utd – Sela, Sheffield Utd – CFI Financial Group
 +
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Harry Kane moves from Spurs to Bayern Munich
 +
 +
Men’s time trial – Remco Evanepoel (Belgium)
 +
 +
Aug 12
 +
 +
Quarter-final – England 2 (Hemp, Russo) Colombia 1
 +
 +
Owen Farrell becomes the first England player to have a yellow card upgraded to a red by the new 'Bunker' review system, in a match against Wales
 +
 +
Harry Kane makes debut for Bayern Munich against RB Leipzig
 +
 +
Challenge Cup final – Leigh Leopards 17 Hull KR 16. Lachlan Lam scored the winning golden point drop-goal. Lance Todd Trophy – Lachlan Lam. Leigh coach – Adrian Lam
 +
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Women’s Challenge Cup final – St Helens bt Leeds Rhinos
 +
 +
Following a Eurosport merger, BT Sport changes its name to TNT Sports
 +
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Arlington Million – Set Piece
 +
 +
Aug 13
 +
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Women’s British Open (Walton Heath) – Lilia Vu (USA). 2<sup>nd</sup> Charley Hull
 +
 +
James Bracey 224 for Gloucestershire against Somerset in One Day Cup
 +
 +
Women’s road race – Lotte Kopecky (Belgium)
 +
 +
Aug 14
 +
 +
Tammy Beaumont scores the first century in The Hundred women's competition with 118 for Welsh Fire against Trent Rockets
 +
 +
Moises Caicedo moves from Brighton to Chelsea for £100 million
 +
 +
James Ward-Prowse moves from Southampton to West Ham
 +
 +
Aug 15
 +
 +
Semi-final – Spain bt Sweden
 +
 +
Neymar moves from Paris Saint-Germain to Al-Hilal
 +
 +
Aug 16
 +
 +
Semi-final (Sydney) England 3 (Toone, Hemp, Russo) Australia 1 (Kerr)
 +
 +
Uefa Super Cup (Piraeus, Greece) Man City 1 (Palmer) Sevilla 1. Man City won on penalties
 +
 +
Aug 18
 +
 +
Harry Kane scores on Bundesliga debut against Werder Bremen
 +
 +
Aug 19
 +
 +
Third place play-off – Sweden bt Australia
 +
 +
World Athletics Championships start in Budapest
 +
 +
Men’s shot put – Ryan Crouser
 +
 +
Mixed 4x400m relay – USA. Silver – GB (Davey, Mitcham, Nielsen, John)
 +
 +
Ten metres from the finish, Femke Bol (Netherlands) started to lean for the finish and crashed to the track
 +
 +
Women’s 10000m – Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia)
 +
 +
Keith Earls wins 100th cap for Ireland, against England. Billy Vunipola sent off
 +
 +
Aleksandar Mitrovic moves from Fulham to Al-Hilal
 +
 +
Aug 20
 +
 +
Women’s World Cup final (Stadium Australia, Sydney) – Spain 1 (Carmona) England 0
 +
 +
Mary Earps saved a penalty from Jenni Hermoso
 +
 +
During the medal ceremony, Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales kissed Jennifer Hermoso on the lips
 +
 +
Golden boot – Aitana Bonmati (Spain)
 +
 +
Golden ball – Hinate Miyazawa (Japan). 5 goals
 +
 +
Golden glove – Mary Earps
 +
 +
Heptathlon – Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Silver – Anna Hall (USA). Johnson-Thompson won by 20 points
 +
 +
Men’s 100m – Noah Lyles. Silver – Letsile Tebogo (Botswana). Bronze – Zharnel Hughes
 +
 +
Men’s 10000m – Joseph Cheptegui (Uganda)
 +
 +
Men’s hammer – Ethan Katsberg (Canada)
 +
 +
Women’s 100m – Sha’Carri Richardson (USA). Silver – Shericka Jackson (Jamaica). Bronze – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
 +
 +
Women’s long jump – Ivana Vuleta (Serbia)
 +
 +
Aug 21
 +
 +
Men’s 110m hurdles – Grant Holloway (USA)
 +
 +
Men’s triple jump – Hughes Fabrice Zango (Burkina Faso)
 +
 +
Men’s discus – Daniel Stahl (Sweden)
 +
 +
Aug 22
 +
 +
Women’s 1500m – Faith Kipyegon
 +
 +
Women’s discus – Laulauga Tausaga (USA)
 +
 +
Harry Brook hits 105 for Superchargers against Fire in The Hundred
 +
 +
Aug 23
 +
 +
Men’s 1500m – Josh Kerr. Silver – Jakob Ingebrigtsen
 +
 +
Women’s 400m – Marileidy Paulino (Dominican Republic)
 +
 +
Women’s pole vault – Nina Kennedy (Australia) and Katie Moon (USA) tied for first place. 5<sup>th</sup> Molly Caudery
 +
 +
Men’s 400m hurdles – Karsten Warholm
 +
 +
Men’s high jump – Gianmarco Tamberi (Italy)
 +
 +
Aug 24
 +
 +
Men’s 400m – Antonio Watson (Jamaica). Silver – Matthew Hudson-Smith
 +
 +
Men’s long jump – Miltiadis Tentoglou (Greece)
 +
 +
Women’s 100m hurdles – Danielle Williams (Jamaica)
 +
 +
Women’s 400m hurdles – Femke Bol (Netherlands)
 +
 +
Women’s hammer – Camryn Rogers (Canada)
 +
 +
Jeremy Doku moves from Rennes to Man City
 +
 +
Aug 25
 +
 +
Men’s 200m – Noah Lyles. 4<sup>th</sup> Zharnel Hughes
 +
 +
Women’s 200m – Shericka Jackson. Silver – Gabrielle Thomas (USA). Bronze – Sha’Carri Richardson
 +
 +
Women’s triple jump – Yulimar Rojas
 +
 +
Women’s javelin – Haruka Kitaguchi (Japan)
 +
 +
Aug 26
 +
 +
Men’s 800m – Marco Arop (Canada). Bronze – Ben Pattison
 +
 +
Men’s pole vault – Armand Duplantis
 +
 +
Decathlon – Pierce LePage (Canada)
 +
 +
Women’s 5000m – Faith Kipyegon. Silver – Sifan Hassan
 +
 +
Men’s 4 x 100m relay – USA
 +
 +
Women’s marathon – Amane Beriso Shankule (Ethiopia)
 +
 +
Women’s shot put – Chase Ealey (USA)
 +
 +
Women’s 4 x 100m relay – USA. Bronze – GB (Philip, Lansiquot, Williams, Neita)
 +
 +
England lose to Fiji in rugby union for the first time. Courtney Lawes wins 100th cap
 +
 +
Aug 27
 +
 +
Men’s 5000m – Jakob Ingebrigtsen
 +
 +
Men’s marathon – Victor Kiplangat (Uganda)
 +
 +
Men’s javelin – Neerav Chopra (India)
 +
 +
Women’s 800m – Mary Moraa (Kenya). Silver – Keely Hodgkinson
 +
 +
Women’s 4 x 400m relay – Netherlands. Bronze – GB (Nielsen, Anning, Pipi, Yeargin)
 +
 +
Men’s 4 x 400m relay – USA. Bronze – GB (Haydock-Wilson, Dobson, Davey, Mitcham)
 +
 +
Women’s high jump – Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Ukraine). 4<sup>th</sup> Morgan Lake
 +
 +
Final medal table – 1<sup>st</sup> USA (12-8-9) 29. 2<sup>nd</sup> Canada. 3<sup>rd</sup> Spain. 7<sup>th</sup> GB (2-3-5) 10
 +
 +
The Hundred finals (Lords). Men – Oval Invincibles bt Manchester Originals. Women – Southern Brave bt Northern Superchargers
 +
 +
Men: most runs – Jos Buttler, most wickets – Tymal Mills
 +
 +
Women: most runs – Danni Wyatt, most wickets – Georgia Adams
 +
 +
Men’s player of the series – Jamie Overton (Manchester Originals)
 +
 +
Women’s player of the series – Marizanne Kapp (Oval Invincibles)
 +
 +
Dutch GP – Verstappen, Alonso, Gasly
 +
 +
FedEx Cup – Viktor Hovland
 +
 +
Aug 29
 +
 +
One-Day Cup semi-finals – Hampshire bt Warwickshire. Liam Dawson 7-15 for Hampshire. Leicestershire bt Gloucestershire
 +
 +
PFA Player of the Year awards –
 +
 +
Men’s player – Erling Haaland
 +
 +
Men’s young player – Bukayo Saka
 +
 +
Women’s player – Rachel Daly
 +
 +
Women’s young player – Lauren James
 +
 +
Aug 30
 +
 +
Champions League Qualifying play-off – PSV Eindhoven bt Rangers
 +
 +
The record attendance for a women's sporting event is broken at a United States college volleyball match. A crowd of 92,003 fans watched Nebraska beat Omaha at their Memorial Stadium
 +
 +
Aug 31
 +
 +
Uefa Player of the Year Awards –
 +
 +
Men’s Player of the Year – Erling Haaland
 +
 +
Men's Coach of the Year – Pep Guardiola
 +
 +
Women's Player of the Year – Aitana Bonmati
 +
 +
Women's Coach of the Year – Sarina Wiegman
 +
 +
President's Award – Miroslav Klose
 +
 +
== September ==
 +
Sep 1
 +
 +
Gus Atkinson takes four wickets on England debut in T20 match against New Zealand
 +
 +
Transfer deadline day –
 +
 +
Alex Iwobi moves from Everton to Fulham
 +
 +
Brennan Johnson moves from Nottingham Forest to Spurs
 +
 +
Cole Palmer moves from Man City to Chelsea
 +
 +
Matheus Nunes moves from Wolves to Man City
 +
 +
Callum Hudson-Odoi moves from Chelsea to Nottingham Forest
 +
 +
Sep 2
 +
 +
Haaland hat-trick against Fulham
 +
 +
Son hat-trick for Spurs against Burnley
 +
 +
Evan Ferguson hat-trick for Brighton against Newcastle
 +
 +
Sep 3
 +
 +
Heath Streak dies
 +
 +
Italian GP – Verstappen, Perez, Sainz
 +
 +
Record tenth successive win for Verstappen
 +
 +
Walker Cup (St Andrews) USA bt Great Britain and Ireland
 +
 +
Burghley Horse Trials – Oliver Townend, riding Ballaghmor Class
 +
 +
World Rowing Championships (Belgrade) – GB win six gold medals
 +
 +
Sep 4
 +
 +
Ludvig Aberg will make his Ryder Cup debut for Europe after being named in captain Luke Donald's six wildcard picks
 +
 +
US Open men's fourth round – Andrey Rublev bt Jack Draper
 +
 +
Sep 5
 +
 +
Jorge Vilda, Spain's Women's World Cup-winning head coach, has been sacked amid the ongoing Luis Rubiales scandal
 +
 +
A horse called Doom is beaten at odds of 1-25 to become the joint shortest-priced loser in British racing history. It lost out to 9-1 chance Karmology in a two-horse race at Ripon
 +
 +
Sep 6
 +
 +
Sri Lanka women defeat England in a series for the first time, winning the T20 series 2-1
 +
 +
Sep 7
 +
 +
US Open women’s semi-finals – Gauff bt Muchova, Sabalenka bt Keys
 +
 +
Edward Hide dies
 +
 +
Sep 8
 +
 +
US Open men’s semi-finals – Djokovic bt Ben Shelton (USA), Medvedev bt Alcaraz
 +
 +
US Open men’s doubles final – Ram and Salisbury bt Bopanna and Ebden. Third successive win
 +
 +
Demarai Gray moves from Everton to Al-Ettifaq
 +
 +
Rugby World Cup starts in Paris. Chile makes its first ever appearance. Canada failed to qualify for the first time
 +
 +
Opening match – France 27 New Zealand 13. First try scored by Mark Telea (New Zealand)
 +
 +
Sep 9
 +
 +
US Open women’s singles final – Gauff bt Sabalenka
 +
 +
US Open mixed doubles final – Helioevaara and Danilena bt Krajicek and Pegula
 +
 +
Ireland 82 Romania 8
 +
 +
England 27 Argentina 3. All of England’s points were scored by George Ford (6 penalties, 3 drop goals). Tom Curry becomes the first English player to be sent off at a Rugby World Cup. Match played in Marseille
 +
 +
Ukraine 1 England 1. Kyle Walker scored his first England goal on his 77th appearance. Match played in Wroclaw
 +
 +
European Dressage Championships. Team – GB (Gareth Hughes, Carl Hester, Charlotte Dujardin, Charlotte Fry)
 +
 +
Sep 10
 +
 +
US Open men’s singles final – Djokovic bt Medvedev. Fourth US Open title and 24th major singles title overall
 +
 +
US Open women’s doubles final – Dabrowski and Routliffe bt Siegemund and Zvonareva
 +
 +
Great North Run. Men – Tamirat Tola (Ethiopia). Women – Peres Jepchirchir (Kenya)
 +
 +
Mo Farah finished fourth in the final race of his career
 +
 +
Tour of Britain – Wout van Aert
 +
 +
IndyCar Series – Alex Palou
 +
 +
Sep 12
 +
 +
Scotland 1 (Maguire o.g.) England 3 (Foden, Bellingham, Kane)
 +
 +
150th anniversary of the first official meeting between Scotland and England
 +
 +
Simona Halep banned for four years for doping
 +
 +
Sep 13
 +
 +
Ben Stokes hits 182 against New Zealand, the highest score by an England batter in a one-day international
 +
 +
Perrie Mans dies
 +
 +
Sep 15
 +
 +
Dawid Malan 127 in final ODI against New Zealand. England win series 3-1
 +
 +
Sep 16
 +
 +
One Day Cup final (Trent Bridge) Leicestershire 267-7 (Swindells 117) Hampshire 265-8
 +
 +
Johnny Sexton becomes Ireland's all-time record points scorer, surpassing Ronan O'Gara who scored 1083 points
 +
 +
St Leger – Continuous (Ryan Moore), trained by Aidan O’Brien. Desert Hero, owned by King Charles, finished third
 +
 +
Sep 17
 +
 +
Singapore GP – Sainz, Norris, Hamilton. 5<sup>th</sup> Verstappen
 +
 +
Liam Lawson (New Zealand) replaced Daniel Ricciardo at AlphaTauri and finished ninth
 +
 +
BMW PGA Championship – Ryan Fox (New Zealand)
 +
 +
Shanghai Masters final – O’Sullivan bt Brecel
 +
 +
Vuelta a Espana – Sepp Kuss (USA, Team Jumbo-Visma). 2<sup>nd</sup> Vingegaard. 3<sup>rd</sup> Roglic
 +
 +
Diamond League finals held in Eugene, Oregon (Prefontaine Classic) –
 +
 +
Men’s 100m – Christian Coleman
 +
 +
Men’s 200m – Andre de Grasse
 +
 +
Men’s 400m – Kirani James
 +
 +
Men’s 1500m and 5000m – Jakob Ingebritsen
 +
 +
Men’s pole vault – Armand Duplantis. New world record of 6.23m
 +
 +
Women’s 100m and 200m – Shericka Jackson
 +
 +
Women’s 400m – Marileidy Paulino
 +
 +
Women’s 800m – Athing Mu
 +
 +
Women’s 1500m – Faith Kipyegon
 +
 +
Women’s 5000m – Gudaf Tsegay. New world record of 14:00.21
 +
 +
Women’s triple jump – Yulimar Rojas
 +
 +
Women’s pole vault – Katie Moon
 +
 +
Fiji 22 Australia 15
 +
 +
England 34 Japan 12
 +
 +
Davis Cup – GB beat Switzerland, Australia and France to advance to the finals in Malaga
 +
 +
World Series of Darts final – Michael van Gerwen bt Nathan Aspinall
 +
 +
Sep 19
 +
 +
Union Berlin and Antwerp made their debut appearances in the group stage of the Champions League
 +
 +
Sep 20
 +
 +
Sheffield Utd player Maddy Cusack dies
 +
 +
Sep 21
 +
 +
France 96 Namibia 0
 +
 +
Sep 22
 +
 +
Emily Pedersen hits a hole-in-one in Solheim Cup
 +
 +
League Leaders’ Shield – Wigan Warriors
 +
 +
Wakefield Trinity are relegated from the Super League
 +
 +
Julian Nagelsmann replaces Hansi Flick as the new head coach of Germany
 +
 +
Aaron Rodgers ruptures an Achilles tendon in first game for New York Jets
 +
 +
Sep 23
 +
 +
England 71 Chile 0. Henry Arundell scores five tries
 +
 +
Ireland 13 South Africa 8
 +
 +
Georgia 18 Portugal 18. This was the first draw in a World Cup match since 2011
 +
 +
2022 Asian Games start in Hangzhou, China
 +
 +
Sep 24
 +
 +
Solheim Cup (Finca Cortesin, Spain) – Europe 14 USA 14. Europe retain the trophy
 +
 +
Spain's Carlota Ciganda holed the winning putt and won all four matches she played in
 +
 +
European captain – Suzann Petersen
 +
 +
US captain – Stacey Lewis
 +
 +
Japanese GP – Verstappen, Norris, Piastri. First podium finish for Piastri
 +
 +
Red Bull win constructor’s title with six races to spare
 +
 +
Berlin marathon. Men’s – Eliud Kipchoge. Women’s – Tigist Assefa (Ethiopia) in a world record time of 2:11.53
 +
 +
World Triathlon Championship Series Finals. Men – Dorian Coninx (France). Women – Beth Potter. 2<sup>nd</sup> Kate Waugh
 +
 +
Sheffield Utd 0 Newcastle Utd 8. Eight different players scored goals
 +
 +
Scotland 40 Australia 6
 +
 +
Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy final – Southern Vipers bt The Blaze
 +
 +
Southern Vipers head coach Charlotte Edwards also steered Southern Brave to victory in The Hundred
 +
 +
Miami Dolphins score the second-highest number of points in a game in NFL history as they beat the Denver Broncos 70-20
 +
 +
Caribbean Premier League (CPLT20) final – Guyana Amazon Warriors bt Trinbago Knight Riders
 +
 +
Sep 27
 +
 +
EFL Cup third round – Newcastle Utd bt Man City
 +
 +
Sep 28
 +
 +
Rugby union Championship club Jersey Reds ceases trading
 +
 +
Sep 29
 +
 +
County Championship won by Surrey. Captain – Rory Burns. Coach – Gareth Batty
 +
 +
Relegated – Middlesex, Northamptonshire
 +
 +
Promoted – Durham, Worcestershire
 +
 +
New Zealand 96 Italy 17
 +
 +
Sam Whitelock sets a new record of 149 New Zealand caps
 +
 +
Sep 30
 +
 +
Aston Villa 6 (Watkins 3) Brighton 1
 +
 +
Darcy Graham scores four tries for Scotland against Romania
 +
 +
Wolves bt Man City. First defeat of the season for Man City
 +
 +
Ryder Cup – Hovland and Aberg bt Scheffler and Koepka 9&7
 +
 +
McIlroy is involved in an angry exchange with Patrick Cantlay's caddie Joe LaCava over his celebrations on the 18th green
 +
 +
Patrick Cantlay refuses to wear the Ryder Cup cap
 +
 +
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships start in Antwerp
 +
 +
Luis Diaz goal for Liverpool against Spurs wrongly disallowed by VAR Darren England and assistant VAR Dan Cook
 +
 +
Cambridgeshire Handicap – Astro King
 +
 +
AFL Grand Final – Collingwood bt Brisbane Lions
 +
 +
Speedway Grand Prix – Bartosz Zmarzlik (Poland). Fourth world title
 +
 +
Chelsea confirm Infinite Athlete as new sponsor in £43m deal
 +
 +
== October ==
 +
Oct 1
 +
 +
Ryder Cup (Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, Rome) – Europe 16 ½ United States 11 ½
 +
 +
Tommy Fleetwood won the point that secured the cup for Europe
 +
 +
Rory McIlroy was the only player to win four matches
 +
 +
British Open snooker final – Williams bt Selby
 +
 +
Simone Biles becomes the first woman to land a Yurchenko double pike vault
 +
 +
Mark Nicholas succeeds Stephen Fry as the next president of the Marylebone Cricket Club
 +
 +
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Ace Impact
 +
 +
NRL Grand Final – Penrith Panthers bt Brisbane Broncos
 +
 +
Oct 2
 +
 +
Francis Lee dies
 +
 +
Oct 3
 +
 +
PCA Player of the Year – Harry Brook
 +
 +
Young Player – James Rew (Somerset)
 +
 +
Women’s Player – Tammy Beaumont
 +
 +
Oct 4
 +
 +
Spain, Portugal, and Morocco are named as the co-hosts for the 2030 World Cup, with the opening three matches taking place in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay
 +
 +
Oct 5
 +
 +
Opening match of Cricket World Cup in Ahmedabad – England 282-9 New Zealand 283-1 (Conway 152*, Ravindra 123*)
 +
 +
Men’s all-around – Daiki Hashimoto (Japan)
 +
 +
Oct 6
 +
 +
Women’s all-around – Simone Biles
 +
 +
Simone Biles becomes the most decorated gymnast in history. Her total of 34 world and Olympic medals is more than any other gymnast, male or female
 +
 +
Super League semi-final – Catalans Dragons bt St Helens
 +
 +
Oct 7
 +
 +
England 18 Samoa 17. Winning try scored by Danny Care
 +
 +
Owen Farrell becomes England's record points scorer with 1,181
 +
 +
Super League semi-final – Wigan bt Hull KR
 +
 +
South Africa 428-5 (Van der Dussen 108, Markram 106, De Kock 100) Sri Lanka 326
 +
 +
Aiden Markram hit the fastest World Cup hundred, off 49 balls
 +
 +
Men’s floor – Artem Dolgopyat (Israel)
 +
 +
Pommel horse – Rhys McClenaghan
 +
 +
Women’s vault – Rebeca Andrade (Brazil)
 +
 +
Qatar GP sprint – Piastri, Verstappen, Norris
 +
 +
Verstappen wins third Formula 1 drivers' world championship with six races to spare
 +
 +
Oct 8
 +
 +
Women's Super League Grand Final – York bt Leeds
 +
 +
Chicago Marathon – Kelvin Kiptum, in a new world record time of 2:00.35
 +
 +
Men’s vault – Jake Jarman
 +
 +
Beam – Simone Biles
 +
 +
Women’s floor – Simone Biles
 +
 +
Qatar GP – Verstappen, Piastri, Norris
 +
 +
Portugal bt Fiji
 +
 +
Final pool tables –
 +
 +
Pool A – France, New Zealand, Italy, Uruguay, Namibia
 +
 +
Pool B – Ireland, South Africa, Scotland, Tonga, Romania
 +
 +
Pool C – Wales, Fiji, Australia, Portugal, Georgia
 +
 +
Pool D – England, Argentina, Japan, Samoa, Chile
 +
 +
World Grand Prix darts final – Luke Humphries bt Gerwyn Price
 +
 +
British Touring Car Championship – Ashley Sutton. Fourth win
 +
 +
English Open snooker final – Judd Trump bt Zhang Anda
 +
 +
Oct 10
 +
 +
Dawid Malan hits 140 for England against Bangladesh
 +
 +
Joe Root becomes England's all-time record run-scorer in World Cups, surpassing Graham Gooch
 +
 +
UK & Ireland are announced as Euro 2028 hosts
 +
 +
Turkey and Italy are named Euro 2032 hosts
 +
 +
Pakistan chase a World Cup record 345 to beat Sri Lanka. The match is the first in World Cup history to have four centuries
 +
 +
Oct 11
 +
 +
Wayne Rooney is appointed as manager of Birmingham City after leaving DC United
 +
 +
Steve Prescott Man of Steel – Bevan French (Wigan Warriors)
 +
 +
Woman of Steel – Sinead Peach (York Valkyrie)
 +
 +
Oct 13
 +
 +
Alistair Cook retires. He scored 26,643 runs from 352 first-class matches
 +
 +
Levi Colwill (Chelsea) makes England debut against Australia
 +
 +
Oct 14
 +
 +
Super League Grand Final (Old Trafford) Wigan 10 Catalans Dragons 2. Liam Marshall scored the only try. Harry Sunderland Trophy – Jake Wardle. Sam Tomkins retires
 +
 +
Quarter-finals – Argentina 29 Wales 17
 +
 +
New Zealand 28 Ireland 24. Ireland lose in quarter-finals for the eighth time. Johnny Sexton retires
 +
 +
Ironman World Championship – Lucy Charles-Barclay
 +
 +
Tommy Fury bt KSI in a six-round cruiserweight contest
 +
 +
Cesarewitch – The Shunter
 +
 +
Oct 15
 +
 +
Quarter-finals – England 30 Fiji 24
 +
 +
South Africa 29 France 28
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup – England suffer their first loss to Afghanistan in any format
 +
 +
Philippe Clement replaces Michael Beale as manager of Rangers
 +
 +
RFL Championship Grand Final – London Broncos bt Toulouse Olympique
 +
 +
Featherstone Rovers won the League Leader's Shield
 +
 +
British Superbike Championship – Tommy Bridewell
 +
 +
Oct 17
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup – Netherlands bt South Africa
 +
 +
England bt Italy to qualify for Euro 2024
 +
 +
Oct 20
 +
 +
Rugby World Cup semi-final – New Zealand 44 Argentina 6. Will Jordan hat-trick
 +
 +
WNBA Finals – Las Vegas Aces bt New York Liberty
 +
 +
Oct 21
 +
 +
Bobby Charlton dies
 +
 +
Rugby World Cup semi-final – South Africa 16 England 15. Only try scored by RG Snyman. Winning penalty scored by Handre Pollard
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup – South Africa 399-7 (Klaasen 109) England 170
 +
 +
Champion Stakes at Ascot won by Frankie Dettori on King of Steel on his last British ride
 +
 +
Champion flat jockey – William Buick
 +
 +
Champion flat trainer – John and Thady Gosden
 +
 +
Oct 22
 +
 +
United States GP – Verstappen, Norris, Sainz
 +
 +
Hamilton finished in second place but was disqualified
 +
 +
LIV Golf Team Championship – Crushers GC, captained by Bryson DeChambeau
 +
 +
Oct 23
 +
 +
Bishan Bedi dies
 +
 +
Oct 24
 +
 +
Bill Kenwright dies
 +
 +
Oct 25
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup – Australia 399-8 Netherlands 90
 +
 +
Australia won by 309 runs, a record margin in the World Cup
 +
 +
Glenn Maxwell hits the fastest men's World Cup century, in 40 balls
 +
 +
Bas de Leede concedes 115 runs, an ODI record
 +
 +
Oct 26
 +
 +
Newcastle and Italy midfielder Sandro Tonali is banned for 10 months by the Italian Football Federation for breaching betting rules
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup – England 156 Sri Lanka 160-2
 +
 +
Oct 27
 +
 +
Bronze final (third place play-off) – England 26 Argentina 23
 +
 +
Oct 28
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup – Australia 388 New Zealand 383-9. Highest scoring game (771 runs) in World Cup history
 +
 +
Eddie Nketiah hat-trick for Arsenal against Sheffield Utd
 +
 +
Rugby World Cup final (Stade de France, Paris) – South Africa 12 New Zealand 11. Handre Pollard kicked four penalties. The only try was scored by Beauden Barrett. New Zealand captain Sam Cane was sent off. Referee – Wayne Barnes (England). Fourth title for South Africa. Captain – Siya Kolisi. Player of the match – Pieter-Steph du Toit. South Africa coach – Jacques Nienaber
 +
 +
Top try scorer – Will Jordan (New Zealand). 8 tries
 +
 +
Top points scorer – Owen Farrell. 75 points
 +
 +
Tyson Fury bt former UFC fighter Francis Ngannou in Saudi Arabia
 +
 +
Nottingham Panthers forward Adam Johnson dies after suffering a serious cut to his neck from a skate during a Challenge Cup match against Sheffield Steelers
 +
 +
Oct 29
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup – India 229 England 129
 +
 +
World Rally Championship – Kalle Rovanpera
 +
 +
European Darts Championship final – Peter Wright bt James Wade
 +
 +
Eddie Jones resigns as manager of Australia rugby union team
 +
 +
Superbike World Championships – Alvaro Bautista (Spain)
 +
 +
World Rugby Awards –
 +
 +
Player of the year – Ardie Savea (New Zealand)
 +
 +
Women’s player of the year – Marlie Packer (England)
 +
 +
Coach of the Year – Andy Farrell (Ireland)
 +
 +
Oct 30
 +
 +
Ballon d’Or – Lionel Messi. Eighth win
 +
 +
Women’s Ballon d’Or – Aitana Bonmati
 +
 +
Kopa Trophy – Jude Bellingham
 +
 +
== November ==
 +
Nov 1
 +
 +
World Series – Texas Rangers bt Arizona Diamondbacks.  MVP – Corey Seager
 +
 +
American League MVP – Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Angels)
 +
 +
National League MVP – Ronald Acuna (Atlanta Braves)
 +
 +
Nov 2
 +
 +
Wayne Barnes announces his retirement from refereeing following the Rugby World Cup final
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup – India 357-8 Sri Lanka 55. The first five Sri Lankan batters scored a total of 2 runs
 +
 +
Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year – Mary Earps
 +
 +
Young Sportswoman of the Year – Mia Brookes
 +
 +
Team of the Year – England football
 +
 +
Nov 3
 +
 +
League of Ireland – Shamrock Rovers
 +
 +
Nov 4
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup – Australia 286 England 253. England are eliminated
 +
 +
Aldershot beat Swindon Town 7-4 in the FA Cup to become the first ever non-league side to score seven goals against league opponents
 +
 +
England rugby league team complete a 3-0 Test series victory over Tonga
 +
 +
Copa Libertadores final – Fluminense bt Boca Juniors
 +
 +
Breeders’ Cup Classic – White Abarrio
 +
 +
Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf – Inspiral
 +
 +
Breeder’s Cup Turf – Auguste Rodin
 +
 +
Nov 5
 +
 +
Sao Paulo GP – Verstappen, Norris, Alonso
 +
 +
NASCAR Cup Series – Ryan Blaney
 +
 +
Nov 6
 +
 +
Angelo Mathews becomes first international cricketer to be timed out, in a World Cup match for Sri Lanka against Bangladesh
 +
 +
Nicolas Jackson hat-trick for Chelsea against Spurs
 +
 +
Phil Neville is appointed manager of Major League Soccer team Portland Timbers
 +
 +
WTA Tour final (Cancun) – Swiatek bt Pegula
 +
 +
Nov 7
 +
 +
Melbourne Cup – Without a Fight
 +
 +
Glenn Maxwell hits 201* for Australia against Afghanistan. Maxwell shares a partnership of 202 for the eighth wicket with Pat Cummins (12*)
 +
 +
Champions League – Atletico Madrid 6 Celtic 0
 +
 +
Nov 9
 +
 +
Ace Impact named horse of the year at Cartier Racing Awards
 +
 +
Nov 10
 +
 +
Ange Postecoglou becomes the first boss ever to win the first three Manager of the Month awards available to him, and the first to claim the first three awards from the start of any Premier League season
 +
 +
Nov 11
 +
 +
David Willey takes his 100th ODI wicket in his final appearance for England
 +
 +
Nov 12
 +
 +
Billie Jean Cup Finals (Seville) – Canada bt Italy
 +
 +
Billie Jean King Cup play-off (Copper Box Arena, London) – GB bt Sweden. Katie Boulter won both of her matches
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup final table – India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Afghanistan, England, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Netherlands
 +
 +
Chelsea 4 Man City 4
 +
 +
International Championship snooker final – Zhang Anda bt Tom Ford
 +
 +
Zhang Anda made a 147 break in the final
 +
 +
Tom Aspinall becomes the first British mixed martial artist to win the UFC Heavyweight Championship
 +
 +
Nov 14
 +
 +
Chelsea boss Emma Hayes is named the new manager of the United States women's national team
 +
 +
Nov 15
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup semi-final – India 397-4 (Kohli 117, Shreyas 105) New Zealand 327 (Mitchell 134, Shami 7-57)
 +
 +
Virat Kohli breaks the record of Sachin Tendulkar as he hits his 50th one-day international century
 +
 +
Ultra-marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski is banned for 12 months by UK Athletics for using a car in a race
 +
 +
Nov 16
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup semi-final – South Africa 212 (Miller 101) Australia 215-7
 +
 +
Nov 17
 +
 +
Everton receive immediate 10-point Premier League deduction for financial rules breach
 +
 +
The first practice session of the Las Vegas GP is called off after Carlos Sainz's Ferrari hits a loose manhole cover, badly damaging his car
 +
 +
Nov 18
 +
 +
Euro 2024 qualifier – France 14 Gibraltar 0
 +
 +
Las Vegas GP – Verstappen, Leclerc, Perez
 +
 +
ATP World Tour Finals (Turin). Semi-finals – Djokovic bt Alcaraz, Sinner bt Medvedev
 +
 +
Nov 19
 +
 +
Cricket World Cup final (Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad) India 240 Australia 241-4 (Head 137). Australia won by six wickets
 +
 +
Most runs – Virat Kohli (765)
 +
 +
Most wickets – Mohammed Shami (24)
 +
 +
Player of the Tournament – Virat Kohli
 +
 +
DP World Tour Championship – Nicolai Hojgaard
 +
 +
Race to Dubai – Rory McIlroy
 +
 +
Champion of Champions final – Allen bt Trump
 +
 +
ATP Tour final – Djokovic bt Sinner
 +
 +
ATP Tour doubles final – Salisbury and Ram bt Granollers and Zeballos
 +
 +
Grey Cup – Montreal Alouettes bt Winnipeg Blue Bombers
 +
 +
Grand Slam of Darts final – Luke Humphries bt Rob Cross
 +
 +
Nov 21
 +
 +
Hayley Turner becomes the first female jockey in Europe to ride 1,000 winners
 +
 +
Nov 22
 +
 +
Barnsley are thrown out of the FA Cup for fielding an ineligible player in their first-round replay win at Horsham
 +
 +
Nov 23
 +
 +
Davis Cup quarter-final – Serbia bt GB. Miomir Kecmanovic bt Jack Draper, Novak Djokovic bt Cameron Norrie
 +
 +
Nov 25
 +
 +
Davis Cup semi-finals – Italy bt Serbia, Australia bt Finland
 +
 +
Katie Taylor bt Chantelle Cameron in Dublin to win WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF light-welterweight titles
 +
 +
Nov 26
 +
 +
Terry Venables dies
 +
 +
Abu Dhabi GP – Verstappen, Leclerc, Russell
 +
 +
19th win this season for Max Verstappen. Sergio Perez won two races. Carlos Sainz won one race (Singapore GP)
 +
 +
Red Bull won 21 races. Ferrari won one race
 +
 +
Final standings – 1<sup>st</sup> Max Verstappen 575 points, 2<sup>nd</sup> Sergio Perez 285 points, 3<sup>rd</sup> Lewis Hamilton 234 points
 +
 +
Constructors – 1<sup>st</sup> Red Bull 860 points, 2<sup>nd</sup> Ferrari 409 points, 3<sup>rd</sup> Mercedes 406 points
 +
 +
Formula 2 Championship – Theo Pourchaire (France)
 +
 +
MotoGP – Francesco Bagnaia (Italy), riding a Ducati
 +
 +
Constructors’ champion – Ducati
 +
 +
Moto2 – Pedro Acosta (Spain)
 +
 +
Moto3 – Jaume Masia (Spain)
 +
 +
MotoE – Mattia Casadei (Italy)
 +
 +
Davis Cup final (Malaga) – Italy 2 Australia 0. Arnaldi bt Popyrin, Sinner bt de Minaur
 +
 +
Nov 27
 +
 +
Cricket Writers' Club awards –
 +
 +
Bob Willis Trophy – Harry Brook
 +
 +
Women’s Cricket Award – Nat Sciver-Brunt
 +
 +
Nov 28
 +
 +
BBC Women's Footballer of the Year – Mary Earps
 +
 +
Nov 29
 +
 +
Champions League – Arsenal 6 Lens 0
 +
 +
== December ==
 +
Dec 2
 +
 +
Women’s Big Bash final – Adelaide Strikers bt Brisbane Heat
 +
 +
UK Championship semi-finals – O’Sullivan bt Vafaei, Ding bt Trump
 +
 +
Euro 2024 draw –
 +
 +
Group A: Germany, Scotland, Hungary, Switzerland
 +
 +
Group C: Slovenia, Denmark, Serbia, England
 +
 +
Dec 3
 +
 +
UK Championship final – O’Sullivan bt Ding. Eighth title for O’Sullivan
 +
 +
First ODI (Antigua) England 325 West Indies 325-6 (Hope 109*)
 +
 +
Hero World Challenge – Scottie Scheffler
 +
 +
Dec 5
 +
 +
Chris Wilder replaces Paul Heckingbottom as manager of Sheffield Utd
 +
 +
England bt Scotland 6-0 but fail to qualify for Women's Nations League finals and 2024 Olympics
 +
 +
Dec 6
 +
 +
Bangladesh's Mushfiqur Rahim becomes only the second Test batter in history to be dismissed for obstructing the field. Len Hutton was dismissed in this way in 1951
 +
 +
Dec 7
 +
 +
William Hill Sports Book of the Year – ‘Good For a Girl’ by Lauren Fleshman. The book covers both her own running career along with critiques and analysis of how professional sport treats female athletes
 +
 +
Shaun Murphy makes the first ever maximum break in the Snooker Shoot Out
 +
 +
Dec 8
 +
 +
Jon Rahm moves to LIV Golf
 +
 +
Dec 9
 +
 +
Mosconi Cup – Europe bt USA. MVP – Joshua Filler (Germany)
 +
 +
MLS Cup – Columbus Crew bt Los Angeles FC
 +
 +
Snooker Shoot Out – Mark Allen
 +
 +
Dec 10
 +
 +
Shohei Ohtani moves from Los Angeles Angels to Los Angeles Dodgers in a $700 million 10-year contract
 +
 +
Dec 11
 +
 +
World Athletes of the Year – Armand Duplantis, Tigist Assefa, Faith Kipyegon, Yulimar Rojas, Noah Lyles and Kelvin Kiptum
 +
 +
WTA Tour Player of the Year – Iga Swiatek
 +
 +
All Turkish league football is suspended after referee Halil Umut Meler is punched by MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca
 +
 +
Dec 13
 +
 +
Eddie Jones re-appointed as head coach of Japan
 +
 +
Dec 16
 +
 +
Luton’s match against Bournemouth is abandoned after Tom Lockyer suffers a cardiac arrest on the pitch
 +
 +
Stockport County 8 Sutton United 0
 +
 +
Phil Salt 109 vs West Indies in third T20 match
 +
 +
Dec 17
 +
 +
Nathan Lyon takes 500th Test wicket
 +
 +
Scottish League Cup final – Rangers bt Aberdeen
 +
 +
Scottish Open snooker final – Gary Wilson bt Noppon Saengkham
 +
 +
International Tennis Federation World Champions – Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka
 +
 +
Dec 18
 +
 +
Michael Beale is appointed as manager of Sunderland
 +
 +
Club World Cup semi-final – Fluminense bt Al Ahly
 +
 +
Dec 19
 +
 +
BBC Sports Personality of the Year – 1<sup>st</sup> Mary Earps 2<sup>nd</sup> Stuart Broad 3<sup>rd</sup> Katarina Johnson-Thompson
 +
 +
Other nominees – Frankie Dettori, Alfie Hewett, Rory McIlroy
 +
 +
World Sports Star – Erling Haaland
 +
 +
Coach of the Year – Pep Guardiola
 +
 +
Team of the Year – Manchester City
 +
 +
Young Personality – Mia Brookes
 +
 +
Lifetime Achievement Award – Kenny Dalglish
 +
 +
Helen Rollason Award – Fatima Whitbread
 +
 +
Unsung hero – Des Smith
 +
 +
The awards took place at Media City, Salford. 70th show
 +
 +
Club World Cup semi-final – Man City bt Urawa Red Diamonds
 +
 +
England score their highest T20 international total of 267-3 (Salt 119) against West Indies
 +
 +
Mitchell Starc becomes the most expensive signing in Indian Premier League history when he is bought for £2.3m by Kolkata Knight Riders
 +
 +
Dec 20
 +
 +
Nuno Espirito Santo replaces Steve Cooper as manager of Nottingham Forest
 +
 +
European Court of Justice rules that banning football clubs from joining a European Super League is unlawful
 +
 +
Dec 22
 +
 +
Club World Cup final (Jeddah) Man City 4 Fluminense 0
 +
 +
Dec 23
 +
 +
Rebecca Welch becomes the first ever woman to referee in the English Premier League, officiating in the fixture between Fulham and Burnley
 +
 +
Dominic Solanke hat-trick for Bournemouth against Nottingham Forest
 +
 +
Joseph Parker bt Deontay Wilder. Anthony Joshua bt Otto Wallin. Fights held in Saudi Arabia
 +
 +
Dec 24
 +
 +
Wolves play Chelsea in first Premier League match played on Christmas Eve in 28 years
 +
 +
Jim Ratcliffe agrees to buy a 25% stake in Manchester United
 +
 +
Dec 26
 +
 +
Sam Allison becomes the first black referee to take charge of a Premier League match in 15 years, officiating in the fixture between Sheffield United and Luton Town
 +
 +
King George VI Chase – Hewick
 +
 +
Chris Wood hat-trick for Nottingham Forest against Newcastle Utd
 +
 +
Dean Lewington makes his 771st league appearance for MK Dons, setting a new record for most career league appearances by a player for a single club in the history of the English Football League
 +
 +
Dec 27
 +
 +
Welsh Grand National – Nassalam
 +
 +
Dec 29
 +
 +
World Darts Championship third round – Chris Dobey bt Michael Smith
 +
 +
Dec 30
 +
 +
World Darts Championship fourth round – Luke Littler (aged 16) bt Raymond van Barneveld (aged 56)
 +
 +
Detroit Pistons bt Toronto Raptors to end their 28-match losing streak that equalled the longest losing run in NBA history
 +
 +
Dec 31
 +
 +
New Years Honours –
 +
 +
Knight Grand Cross – Bill Beaumont
 +
 +
Knighthood – Ron Dennis
 +
 +
CBE – Stuart Broad, Rob Burrow, Christian Horner, Peter Shilton, Kevin Sinfield
 +
 +
OBE – Millie Bright, Marcus Trescothick, Howard Wilkinson
 +
 +
MBE – Becky Downie, Ellie Downie, Mary Earps, Lauren Hemp, Stuart Hogg, Hazel Irvine, Jeff Stelling

Latest revision as of 17:31, 14 November 2024

January

Jan 1

European Capital of Sport – Glasgow

Shot clock in rugby union introduced. Players will have 90 seconds to take a conversion and a minute for penalties, or the kick will be disallowed

Cody Gakpo moves from PSV Eindhoven to Liverpool

Jan 2

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffers cardiac arrest during match against Cincinnati Bengals

PDC semi-finals – Michael Smith bt Gabriel Clemens (Germany), Michael van Gerwen bt Dimitri Van den Bergh (Belgium)

Jan 3

PDC Final – Smith bt van Gerwen

Jan 4

West Ham co-chairman David Gold dies

Jan 6

Gianluca Vialli dies

Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong are replaced by David Gilbert and Hossein Vafaei in The Masters following match-fixing allegations

Four Hills Tournament – Halvor Egner Granerud (Norway)

Jan 7

FA Cup third round – Wrexham bt Coventry

Jan 8

FA Cup third round – Stevenage bt Aston Villa

The Masters first round – Hossein Vafaei bt Mark Selby

Tournament of Champions – Jon Rahm

Jan 9

Gareth Bale retires

Jan 10

David Duckham dies

Jan 11

Carabao Cup quarter-final – Southampton bt Man City

Jan 12

On-loan Atletico Madrid forward Joao Felix sent off on Chelsea debut against Fulham

Jan 15

The Masters final – Trump bt Williams

Mykhailo Mudryk moves from Shakhtar Donetsk to Chelsea

Dakar Rally (Saudi Arabia) – Cars classification won by Nasser Al-Attiyah, driving a Toyota. 6th win

Jan 16

Eddie Jones is appointed as head coach of Australia

Australian Open first round – Murray bt Berrettini

Jan 18

Australian Open second round – Mackenzie McDonald bt Nadal

Australian Open second round – Gauff bt Raducanu

Jan 19

Australian Open second round – Murray bt Thanasi Kokkinakis. Match finished at 04:05

NBA match in Paris – Chicago Bulls bt Detroit Pistons

World’s richest football clubs – Man City, Real Madrid, Liverpool

Jan 20

Danny Ings moves from Aston Villa to West Ham

Leandro Trossard moves from Brighton to Arsenal

Jan 21

Australian Open third round – Roberto Bautista Agut bt Murray

Jan 22

Haaland hat-trick against Wolves

Jan 23

Frank Lampard sacked as manager of Everton

Scottish Cup fourth round – Darval bt Aberdeen

Darval play in the West of Scotland Premier Division, the sixth tier of Scottish football

World Indoor Bowls Championship. Men’s – Jamie Walker. Women’s – Katherine Rednall

Longines World’s Best Racehorse – Flightline

Jan 24

Mikaela Shiffrin passes Lindsey Vonn's women's World Cup record of 82 wins

Jan 26

Australian Open women’s singles semi-finals – Rybakina bt Azarenka, Sabalenka bt Magda Linette (Poland)

ICC Cricketer of the Year awards –

Men's Cricketer of the Year (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy) – Babar Azam

Men's Test Cricketer of the Year – Ben Stokes

Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year – Babar Azam

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 – Nat Sciver-Brunt

Women's T20 Cricketer of the Year – Tahlia McGrath

Jan 27

Australian Open men’s singles semi-finals – Djokovic bt Tommy Paul, Tsitsipas bt Khachanov

Mixed doubles final – Matos and Stefani bt Bopanna and Mirza

Men's wheelchair doubles – Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid

16-year-old Billy Loughnane is top of the Flat jockey standings

Jan 28

Women’s singles final – Sabalenka bt Rybakina

Men’s doubles finals – Hijikata and Kubler bt Nys and Zielinski

Men's wheelchair singles – Alfie Hewett

Jan 29

Men’s singles final – Djokovic bt Tsitsipas. Tenth Australian Open title and 22nd major singles title overall

Women’s doubles final – Krejcikova and Siniakova bt Aoyama and Shibahara

Women's Under-19 World Cup final – England 68 India 69-3. Tournament played in South Africa

Anthony Gordon moves from Everton to Newcastle Utd

Cazoo Masters final – Chris Dobey bt Rob Cross

AFC Championship Game – Kansas City Chiefs bt Cincinnati Bengals

NFC Championship Game – Philadelphia Eagles bt San Francisco 49ers

Pegasus World Cup – Art Collector

BBL Cup final – London Lions bt Leicester Riders

WBBL Cup final – London Lions bt Leicester Riders

Jan 30

Sean Dyche appointed as manager of Everton

Dubai Desert Classic – McIlroy

Jan 31

Transfer deadline day –

Enzo Fernandez moves from Benfica to Chelsea for £107 million

Jorginho moves from Chelsea to Arsenal

Marcel Sabitzer moves from Bayern Munich to Man Utd on loan

Joao Cancelo moves from Man City to Bayern Munich on loan

Carabao Cup semi-final – Newcastle Utd bt Southampton

February

Feb 1

Carabao Cup semi-final – Man Utd bt Nottingham Forest

Feb 4

Six Nations captains – Owen Farrell, Ken Owens, Jonathan Sexton, Jamie Ritchie, Antoine Dupont, Michele Lamaro

Six Nations coaches – Steve Borthwick, Warren Gatland, Andy Farrell, Gregor Townsend, Fabien Galthie, Kieran Crowley

Six Nations – Ireland bt Wales. First try of the tournament scored by Caelan Doris

Six Nations – Scotland bt England. Winning try scored by Duhan van der Merwe

Big Bash League final – Perth Scorchers bt Brisbane Heat

Amanda Serrano bt Erika Cruz to become undisputed world featherweight champion

Feb 5

Harry Kane breaks Jimmy Greaves’ goal scoring record for Spurs, with his 267th goal, against Man City

Great Britain win a first four-man bobsleigh medal at the World Championships for 84 years with silver in St Moritz. Pilot – Brad Hall

German Masters final – Ali Carter bt Tom Ford

Feb 6

Jesse Marsch sacked as manager of Leeds Utd

Alpine World Ski Championships start in France. Men’s events held in Courchevel. Women’s events held in Meribel

Feb 7

FA Cup fourth round – Sheffield Utd bt Wrexham

LeBron James becomes the NBA's all-time leading scorer, passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 39-year-old record of 38,387 points

FIFA Club World Cup semi-final – Al-Hilal (Saudi Arabia) bt Flamengo (Brazil)

Feb 8

FIFA Club World Cup semi-final – Real Madrid bt Al Ahly (Egypt)

Feb 9

Tony Faulkner dies

Feb 10

Women’s T20 World Cup starts in South Africa

Feb 11

Women’s downhill – Jasmine Flury (Switzerland)

Six Nations – Ireland bt France

Six Nations – Scotland bt Wales and win the Doddie Weir Cup

FIFA Club World Cup final (Rabat) – Real Madrid 5 Al-Hilal 3

Feb 12

Men’s downhill – Marco Odermatt (Switzerland)

Six Nations – England bt Italy

Nathan Jones sacked as manager of Southampton

World Senior Darts Championship final (Circus Tavern, Purfleet) – Robert Thornton bt Richie Howson

Super Bowl LVII – Kansas City Chiefs 38 Philadelphia Eagles 35

Winning field goal kicked by Harrison Butker

MVP – Patrick Mahomes

Game played at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona

Half time show headlined by Rihanna

NFL MVP – Patrick Mahomes

Feb 13

British Horseracing Authority's revised whip regulations come into effect

Feb 16

Women’s giant slalom – Shiffrin

Welsh Open round of 32 – Adam Wells bt Trump

Feb 17

Men’s giant slalom – Marco Odermatt

Welsh Open quarter-final – Teng Pengfei bt O’Sullivan

Feb 18

World Club Challenge – Penrith Panthers 12 St Helens 13. Lewis Dodd kicked the winning drop-goal in golden-point extra time

Women’s slalom – Laurence St-Germain (Canada)

Feb 19

First Test – England 325-9 and 374 New Zealand 306 (Blundell 138) and 126. England won by 267 runs

Anderson and Broad become the most successful bowling partnership in Test history, passing Warne and McGrath's record of 1,001 wickets

Welsh Open final (Llandudno) – Milkins bt Murphy

Men’s slalom – Henrik Kristoffersen (Norway). Silver – AJ Ginnis (Greece)

FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships start in Georgia

Feb 21

Greg Foster dies

England score record 213-5 against Pakistan to post the highest total in Women's T20 World Cup history

Javi Gracia appointed as manager of Leeds Utd

Feb 22

Champions League – Liverpool 2 Real Madrid 5

Feb 23

John Motson dies

Women's T20 World Cup semi-final – Australia bt India

Feb 24

Women's T20 World Cup semi-final – South Africa bt England

Feb 25

Six Nations – Ireland bt Italy

Six Nations – England bt Wales. Winning try scored by Ollie Lawrence

Saudi Cup – Panthalassa. World’s richest horse race

Feb 26

Six Nations – France bt Scotland. Mohamed Haouas (France) became the first player to receive two career red cards in Six Nations. Grant Gilchrist was also sent off

Scottish League Cup final – Celtic bt Rangers

Women’s T20 World Cup final (Cape Town) – Australia bt South Africa

Carabao Cup final – Man Utd 2 (Casemiro, Rashford) Newcastle Utd 0

Players Championship snooker final – Murphy bt Carter

Tommy Fury bt Jake Paul in boxing match in Saudi Arabia

Feb 27

Novak Djokovic surpasses Steffi Graf's record for the most weeks as world number one after entering a 378th week at the top of the men's rankings

Best Fifa Football Awards –

The Best men's player – Lionel Messi

The Best women's player – Alexia Putellas

The Best men's coach – Lionel Scaloni

The Best women's coach – Sarina Wiegman

Snowboard slopestyle – Mia Brookes, who becomes Great Britain's youngest world champion in snowboarding history at the age of 16

Jurgen Klinsmann appointed as manager of South Korea

Feb 28

Second Test (Basin Reserve, Wellington) – England 435-8 (Brook 186, Root 153*) and 256 New Zealand 209 and 483 (Williamson 132, Leach 5-157). New Zealand won by one run. Series drawn 1-1

Last man James Anderson was caught down the leg side by Tom Blundell off Neil Wagner when England needed two to win

West Indies defeated Australia in 1993 in the only other Test match to have been won by one run

March

Mar 1

Just Fontaine dies

FA Cup fifth round – Grimsby bt Southampton

Mar 2

Mixed snowboard team cross – GB (Huw Nightingale and Charlotte Bankes)

European Athletics Indoor Championships start in Istanbul

Mar 4

Philip Billing scores after 9 seconds for Bournemouth against Arsenal

Ski halfpipe. Silver – Zoe Atkin

1500m – Laura Muir

Mumbai Indians bt Gujarat Giants in the first game of the Indian Women’s Premier League

World Women’s Snooker Championship – Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan (Thailand)

Mar 5

Formula One 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 (Australia)

Williams – Logan Sargeant (USA), Alexander Albon

AlphaTauri – Nyck de Vries (Netherlands), Yuki Tsunoda

Alpine – Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon

Haas – Kevin Magnussen, Nico Hulkenberg

Alfa Romeo – Valtteri Bottas, Zhou Guanyu

Bahrain GP – Verstappen, Perez, Alonso

Liverpool 7 Man Utd 0

Salah breaks Robbie Fowler's record of 128 Premier League goals for Liverpool

Women’s League Cup final – Arsenal bt Chelsea

800m – Keely Hodgkinson

Long jump – Jazmin Sawyers

UK Open darts championship – Andrew Gilding bt Michael van Gerwen

HSBC Women’s World Championships – JY Ko (South Korea)

Mar 7

Champions League Round of 16 – AC Milan bt Spurs

Mar 11

Six Nations – England 10 France 53

Six Nations – Wales bt Italy

Mikaela Shiffrin becomes the greatest Alpine skier of all time with her 87th World Cup win, surpassing the record of 86 held by Swede Ingemar Stenmark since 1989

Mar 12

Six Nations – Ireland bt Scotland

Players Championship (Sawgrass) – Scottie Scheffler. 2nd Tyrell Hatton

Aaron Rai made a hole-in-one at the 17th hole

Mar 13

Dick Fosbury dies

Mar 14

Champions League Round of 16 – Man City 7 (Haaland (5)) RB Leipzig 0

Fifa switch the format for the expanded 2026 World Cup back to four-team groups

Champion Hurdle – Constitution Hill (Nico de Boinville), trained by Nicky Henderson. 2nd State Man 3rd Zanahiyr

Mares’ Hurdle – Honeysuckle (Rachael Blackmore)

Bangladesh bt England 3-0 in T20 series

Mar 15

Queen Mother Champion Chase – Energumene

Cross Country Chase – Delta Work

Champions League Round of 16 – Real Madrid bt Liverpool

Mar 16

Ryanair Chase – Envoi Allen

Stayers’ Hurdle – Sire Du Berlais

Europa League Round of 16 – Sporting Lisbon bt Arsenal

Women’s snooker pioneer Vera Selby dies

Mar 17

Crystal Palace manager Patrick Vieira is sacked

Gold Cup – Galopin des Champs (Paul Townend), trained by Willie Mullins. 2nd Bravemansgame 3rd Conflated 4th Noble Yeats

Prestbury Cup – Ireland bt GB

Leading Jockey – Paul Townend

Leading Trainer – Willie Mullins

Mar 18

Six Nations – Scotland bt Italy. Hat-trick for Blair Kinghorn

Six Nations – Wales bt France. 100th cap for Taulupe Faletau

Six Nations – Ireland bt England. Freddie Steward sent off. 100th cap for Dan Cole

Johnny Sexton surpasses Ronan O'Gara (557 points) as the Six Nations' record scorer

Ireland's first Grand Slam in five years, and first win in Dublin

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

Leading points scorer – Thomas Ramos (84)

Leading try scorer – Damian Penaud (5)

Player of the tournament – Antoine Dupont

FA Cup quarter-final – Man City 6 (Haaland (3)) Burnley 0

Pakistan Super League final – Lahore Qalandars bt Multan Sultans

Mar 19

FA Cup quarter-final – Brighton 5 Grimsby 0

Premiership Rugby Cup final – Exeter Chiefs bt London Irish

Saudi Arabia GP – Perez, Verstappen, Russell

Indian Wells Masters. Men’s – Alcaraz. Women’s – Rybakina

Alpine Ski World Cup –

Men’s overall – Marco Odermatt (Switzerland)

Men’s downhill – Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (Norway)

Women’s overall – Mikaela Shiffrin (USA)

Women’s downhill – Sofia Goggia (Italy)

Men’s Ski Jumping World Cup – Halvor Egner Granerud (Norway)

Women’s Ski Jumping World Cup – Eva Pinkelnig (Austria)

Mar 21

World Baseball Classic final – Japan bt USA

Roy Hodgson appointed as manager of Crystal Palace

Mar 22

World Figure Skating Championships start in Japan

Mar 23

Harry Kane scores against Italy to become England's all-time top goalscorer with his 54th goal, breaking Wayne Rooney's record. Luke Shaw sent off. Match played in Diego Armando Maradona Stadium, Naples

Cristiano Ronaldo makes a world-record 197th men's international appearance in Portugal's match against Liechtenstein

Mar 24

Thomas Tuchel replaces Julian Nagelsmann as manager of Bayern Munich

Women’s singles – Kaori Sakamoto (Japan)

Mar 25

Men’s singles – Shoma Uno (Japan)

Ilia Malinin (USA) lands a quadruple axel for the first time on the world stage

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

Dubai World Cup – Ushba Tesoro

Women’s Six Nations – England bt Scotland. Sarah Hunter retires after winning 141 caps

Mar 26

WPL final – Mumbai Indians bt Delhi Capitals

Scottish Challenge Cup final – Hamilton Academical bt Raith Rovers

Cambridge win men’s and women’s boat races

South Africa chase down 259, the highest pursuit in T20 history, to beat West Indies in T20 international

Ivan Toney makes England debut, against Ukraine

World Match Play Championship final – Sam Burns bt Cameron Young. Third-place play-off – McIlroy bt Scheffler

BBL Trophy final – Caledonia Gladiators bt Cheshire Phoenix

WBBL Trophy final – London Lions bt Leicester Riders

Mar 27

Antonio Conte leaves Spurs by mutual consent

Mar 28

Euro 2024 qualifying Group A – Scotland 2 (McTominay (2)) Spain 0

Mar 29

Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger become the first managers to be inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame

April

Apr 1

Ken Buchanan dies

Lincoln Handicap – Migration

Apr 2

Australian GP – Verstappen, Hamilton, Alonso. The race finished under a safety car after three red flags

Papa Johns EFL Trophy final – Bolton bt Plymouth

Brendan Rodgers sacked as manager of Leicester

Graham Potter sacked as manager of Chelsea

Tour Championship snooker final – Shaun Murphy bt Kyren Wilson

Apr 3

WWE and the Endeavor Group, the owners of mixed martial arts franchise UFC, are to form a new £17.3 billion sports entertainment brand

Apr 4

Amir Khan banned for two years after an anti-doping test revealed the presence of a banned substance following his fight against Kell Brook in 2022

Reading given six-point deduction for breaching EFL business plan

Fulham's Aleksandar Mitrovic is given an eight-match ban after pushing referee Chris Kavanagh in their FA Cup loss at Manchester United

Switzerland will host the 2025 Uefa Women's European Championship

Apr 5

Masters par 3 contest – Tom Hoge. Seamus Power hits back-to-back hole-in-ones

Frank Lampard to manage Chelsea until the end of the season

Apr 6

Women's Finalissima (Wembley) – England bt Brazil

Apr 8

Son Heung-min becomes the first Asian player to score 100 goals in the Premier League

Apr 9

The Masters – Jon Rahm. 2nd Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka

Apr 10

Irish Grand National – I Am Maximus

Dean Smith appointed as manager of Leicester City until the end of the season

Apr 11

Australia end England’s 30 match unbeaten run in women’s football. England's first ever loss under Sarina Wiegman

European Gymnastics Championships start in Antalya, Turkey

Apr 12

Proposed stadiums for joint Ireland and United Kingdom bid for the UEFA Euro 2028 includes Everton Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock and Casement Park in Belfast

Apr 13

Aintree Hurdle – Constitution Hill

Aintree Bowl – Shishkin

Apr 14

Melling Chase – Pic d’Orhy

Topham Chase – Bill Baxter

Harry Brook makes his maiden Indian Premier League century for Sunrisers Hyderabad

Women’s all-around – Jessica Gadirova

Apr 15

Grand National – Corach Rambler (Derek Fox), trained by Lucinda Russell. 2nd Vanillier 3rd Gaillard 4th Noble Yeats. Race delayed by animal rights activists. Hill Sixteen died during the race

Billie Jean Cup qualifier (Coventry) – France bt Great Britain

Heavyweight boxer Joe Joyce suffers first pro loss, to China’s Zhilei Zhang

Men’s floor – Luke Whitehouse

Apr 16

Chris Ashton becomes the first player to score 100 Premiership tries

Arjun Tendulkar, the son of Sachin, makes his Indian Premier League debut for Mumbai Indians

Women’s floor – Jessica Gadirova

Jake Jarman won two gymnastics silver medals and a bronze medal

World Snooker Championship first round – Neil Robertson makes two 146 breaks against Wu Yize

Apr 17

Play is disrupted at the World Snooker Championship after a protester climbed on to a table and covered it in an orange powder

Leeds 1 Liverpool 6

Quarterback Jalen Hurts agrees a new deal with the Philadelphia Eagles that makes him the highest-paid player in NFL history

Wisden leading cricketer in the world – Ben Stokes

Cricketers of the Year – Tom Blundell, Ben Foakes, Harmanpreet Kaur, Daryl Mitchell, Matthew Potts

Apr 18

Champions League quarter-finals – Real Madrid bt Chelsea, AC Milan bt Napoli

Apr 19

World Snooker Championship first round – Kyren Wilson 147 against Ryan Day

World Snooker Championship first round – Anthony McGill bt Judd Trump

Champions League quarter-finals – Man City bt Bayern Munich, Inter Milan bt Benfica

Apr 20

World Snooker Championship first round – Si Jiahui bt Shaun Murphy

Europa League quarter-final – Sevilla bt Man Utd

Gloucestershire's Tom Price makes a hundred and takes a hat-trick on the same day

Apr 22

Scottish Grand National – Kitty’s Light

FA Cup semi-final – Mahrez hat-trick for Man City against Sheffield Utd

Wrexham bt Boreham Wood to win promotion from National League

Apr 23

London Marathon –

Men’s – Kelvin Kiptum (Kenya), in 2 hours 1 minute 25 seconds, the second-fastest time ever

Women’s – Sifan Hassan (Netherlands), in her first-ever marathon

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

Women’s wheelchair – Madison de Rozario (Australia)

FA Cup semi-final – Man Utd bt Brighton

Newcastle Utd 6 Spurs 1. Newcastle scored five goals in the first 21 minutes

Chevron Championship – Lilia Vu (USA)

World’s Strongest Man – Mitchell Hooper (Canada). 2nd Tom Stoltman

Apr 24

Spurs interim manager Cristian Stellini is sacked after four matches in charge and replaced by Ryan Mason

Champion jump jockey – Richard Hughes

Champion jump trainer – Paul Nicholls

Championship Player of the Year – Chuba Akpom (Middlesbrough)

League One Player of the Year – Aaron Collins (Bristol Rovers)

League Two Player of the Year – Sam Hoskins (Northampton)

Aaron Rodgers moves from Green Bay Packers to New York Jets

Apr 26

Quarter-final – Luca Brecel bt O’Sullivan

Man City 4 Arsenal 1

Apr 27

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

NFL draft first pick – Bryce Young (Carolina Panthers)

Apr 28

Jim Fox dies

Apr 29

Women’s Six Nations – England 38 France 33. England win Grand Slam

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

Top scorer – Marlie Packer 35 (7 tries)

Player of the tournament – Gabrielle Vernier (France)

Brighton 6 Wolves 0

World Snooker Championship semi-final – Luca Brecel 17 Si Jiahui 15. Brecel won 11 frames in a row

World Snooker Championship semi-final – Mark Selby 17 Mark Allen 15

European Champions Cup semi-final – Leinster bt Toulouse

Sergio Perez wins first race in new ‘sprint’ format at Azerbaijan GP

Apr 30

Azerbaijan GP – Perez, Verstappen, Leclerc

European Champions Cup semi-final – La Rochelle bt Exeter

Tour de Romandie – Adam Yates

May

May 1

World Snooker Championship final – Luca Brecel 18 Mark Selby 15. Brecel is the first player from mainland Europe to win the title

Mark Selby becomes the first player ever to make a maximum 147 break in the final of the World Snooker Championship

Women’s Champions League semi-final – Wolfsburg bt Arsenal

May 3

Sam Allardyce replaces Javi Garcia as manager of Leeds

John Mitchell to replace Simon Middleton as head coach of England rugby union women’s team

Erling Haaland scores his 35th league goal of the season against West Ham to move past Alan Shearer and Andy Cole's previous best of 34

Tori Bowie dies

May 4

Napoli draw at Udinese to win Serie A for the first time since 1990

May 6

2000 Guineas – Chaldean (Frankie Dettori), trained by Andrew Balding

Kentucky Derby – Mage. Seven horses died in the build-up to the race

World Snooker Tour Player of the Year – Mark Allen

Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez bt John Ryder to retain undisputed super-middleweight crown

Saracens finish top of Rugby Premiership

May 7

1000 Guineas – Mawj (Oisin Murphy), trained by Saeed bin Suroor

World Seniors Snooker Championship final –Jimmy White bt Alfie Burden

Miami GP – Verstappen, Perez, Alonso

May 8

Laureus Awards –

Sportsman of the Year award – Lionel Messi

Sportswoman of the Year award – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Team of the Year award – Argentina men's football team

Breakthrough of the Year award – Carlos Alcaraz

Comeback of the Year award – Christian Eriksen

Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability award – Catherine Debrunner (Swiss para-athlete)

Action Sportsperson of the Year award – Eileen Gu

Sport for Good award – TeamUp (a programme for children displaced by war by Barcelona and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski)

Badminton Horse Trials – Ros Canter, riding Lordships Graffalo

May 10

Premiership player of the year – Ollie Lawrence (Bath)

May 11

World Squash Championships (Chicago). Men – Ali Farag. Women – Nour El Sherbini

May 12

FWA footballers of the year. Men – Erling Haaland. Women – Sam Kerr

May 13

National League playoff final – Notts County bt Chesterfield

Champions – Wrexham, with 111 points. Runners-up – Notts County, with 107 points

Premiership semi-final – Saracens bt Northampton

May 14

Premiership semi-final – Sale bt Leicester

Women’s FA Cup final – Chelsea 1 (Kerr) Man Utd 0

Race leader Remco Evenepoel pulls out of the Giro d'Italia after testing positive for Covid-19

PFA Scotland Premiership player of the year – Kyogo Furuhashi (Celtic)

BBL Playoff final – London Lions bt Leicester Riders

WBBL Playoff final – London Lions bt Leicester Riders

May 16

Champions League semi-final – Inter Milan bt AC Milan

May 17

Champions League semi-final – Man City bt Real Madrid

Tao Geoghegan Hart crashes out of Giro d’Italia

Ivan Toney banned from football for eight months after he accepted breaking Football Association betting rules

May 18

League One play-off semi-final – Sheffield Wednesday overturn a four goal deficit against Peterborough. This was the biggest come back in play-off history

Europa Conference League semi-final – West Ham bt AZ Alkmaar

Rugby Players' Association awards –

Player’s player of the year – Jasper Wiese (Leicester Tigers)

England player of the year – Freddie Steward (Leicester Tigers)

Young player of the year – Tom Pearson (Northampton Saints)

England women player of the year – Sadia Kabeya (Loughborough Lightning)

May 19

European Challenge Cup final (Dublin) – Toulon bt Glasgow Warriors

Premiership Cup final – Exeter Chiefs bt London Irish

NFL running back Jim Brown dies

May 20

Man City win Premier League title after Nottingham Forest beat Arsenal

European Champions Cup final (Dublin) – La Rochelle 27 Leinster 26

Undisputed light-welterweight title fight (Dublin) – Chantelle Cameron bt Katie Taylor

Preakness Stakes – National Treasure

Devin Haney bt Vasiliy Lomachenko to remain undisputed lightweight world champion

May 21

Emilia Romagna Grand Prix called off because of major flooding in the region

US PGA Championship (Oak Hill, New York) – Brooks Koepka. Third win and fifth major. 2nd Viktor Hovland, Scottie Scheffler. Hole-in-one for Michael Block

FA Vase final – Ascot United bt Newport Pagnell Town

FA Trophy final – FC Halifax Town bt Gateshead

World Rugby Sevens Series – New Zealand

May 24

Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year – “Unforgettable: Rugby, Dementia and the Fight of my Life” by Steve Thompson

May 25

Premier League Darts final – Van Gerwen bt Price

May 26

Sean Abbott (Surrey) equals the fastest T20 Blast century off 34 balls

May 27

Championship play-off final – Luton 1 Coventry 1. Luton won 6-5 on penalties. Fankaty Dabo was the only player to miss in the penalty shootout. Luton last played in the top division in 1992

Promoted – Burnley, Sheffield Utd, Luton

Relegated – Reading, Blackpool, Wigan Athletic

Leading scorer – Chuba Akpom (Middlesbrough) 28 goals

Chelsea win the Women's Super League for a fourth successive season

Bayern Munich win an 11th consecutive Bundesliga title, finishing ahead of Borussia Dortmund on goal difference

Premiership rugby final – Saracens bt Sale to win their sixth title. Man of the match – Owen Farrell

Premiership rugby top try scorer – Cadan Murley (Harlequins). 15 tries

Premiership rugby top points scorer – Paddy Jackson (London Irish). 205 points

United Rugby Championship Grand Final – Munster bt Stormers

May 28

Premier League – Man City, Arsenal, Man Utd, Newcastle

Relegated – Leicester, Leeds Utd, Southampton

Leading Scorer – Erling Haaland (Man City) 36 goals

Everton bt Bournemouth in final match to avoid relegation

League Two play-off final – Carlisle bt Stockport

Promoted – Leyton Orient, Stevenage, Northampton, Carlisle

Relegated – Hartlepool, Rochdale

Leading scorer – Andy Cook (Bradford City) 28 goals

Serie A – Napoli

La Liga – Barcelona

Bundesliga – Bayern Munich

Primeira Liga – Benfica

Ligue 1 (Le Championnat) – Paris Saint-Germain

Eredivisie – Feyenoord

Giro d’Italia – Primoz Roglic (Team Jumbo-Visma). 2nd Geraint Thomas

Monaco GP – Verstappen, Alonso, Ocon

Jeff Stelling leaves Sky Sports Soccer Saturday after 25 years as host

Indy 500 – Josef Newgarden

Bill Beaumont Cup final – Kent bt Lancashire

May 29

League One play-off final – Sheffield Wednesday bt Barnsley

Promoted – Plymouth, Ipswich, Sheffield Wednesday

Relegated – Milton Keynes Dons, Morecambe, Accrington Stanley, Forest Green Rovers

Leading scorer – Conor Chaplin (Ipswich), Jonson Clarke-Harris (Peterborough) 28 goals

Mauricio Pochettino appointed as manager of Chelsea

IPL final – Chennai Super Kings bt Gujarat Titans. Fifth title for Chennai

Ravi Jadeja hit the last two balls for six and four to win the match for Chennai

Player of the series – Shubman Gill (Gujarat Titans)

Most runs (Orange Cap) – Shubman Gill

Most wickets (Purple Cup) – Mohammed Shami (Gujarat Titans)

May 30

Barclays Manager of the Season – Pep Guardiola

League Managers' Association manager of the year – Pep Guardiola

May 31

Europa League final (Budapest) – Sevilla bt Roma. Sevilla have now won all seven of the finals they have played in the competition

June

Jun 2

The Oaks – Soul Sister (Frankie Dettori), trained by John Gosden. Seventh win for Dettori

Faith Kipyegon breaks women's 1500m world record at the Diamond League meeting in Florence

Sam Allardyce leaves Leeds Utd

Jun 3

FA Cup final – Man City 2 (Gundogan 2) Man Utd 1 (Bruno Fernandez). Man of the match – Gundogan

Gundogan scored the quickest goal in FA Cup final history, after only 13 seconds

Epsom Derby – Auguste Rodin (Ryan Moore), trained by Aidan O’Brien. 2nd King of Steel. 3rd White Birch

Women’s Champions League final – Barcelona bt Wolfsburg

Test Match (Lords) Ireland 172 (Broad 5-51) & 362 (Adair 88, McBrine 86*, Tongue 5-66) England 524-4 dec (Pope 205, Duckett 182) & 12-0. England won by 10 wickets

Debut for Josh Tongue

Scottish Cup final – Celtic bt Inverness Caledonian Thistle

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

Jun 4

Scottish Premiership final table – 1st Celtic 2nd Rangers

Leading scorer – Kyogo Furuhashi (Celtic) 27 goals

Relegated – Dundee United

Scottish Premiership play-off – Ross County bt Partick Thistle

Scottish Championship – Dundee

Scottish League One – Dunfermline

Scottish League Two – Stirling Albion

Highland League – Brechin City

Lowland League – Spartans

Scottish League Two play-off final – Spartans bt Albion Rovers

Spanish GP – Verstappen, Hamilton, Russell

Sue Redfern becomes the first woman to stand as an on-field umpire in the T20 Blast

Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi are disqualified from the French Open women’s doubles after Kato hit a ball girl with a ball

Jun 6

Ange Postecoglou leaves Celtic to become new Spurs manager

PGA Tour and DP World Tour agree to merge with Saudi Arabian-backed circuit LIV Golf

Liang Wenbo and Li Hang are handed lifetime bans for their involvement in snooker's biggest match-fixing scandal

London Irish are suspended from the Premiership after missing a deadline to pay players and staff

Karim Benzema moves from Real Madrid to Saudi Arabian champions Al-Ittihad

Jun 7

Europa Conference League final (Fortuna Arena, Prague) West Ham 2 (Benrahma, Bowen) Fiorentina 1 (Bonaventura)

West Ham’s first major trophy since winning the FA Cup in 1980

Jun 8

French Open mixed doubles final – Kato and Puetz bt Andreescu and Venus

French Open women’s singles semi-finals – Muchova bt Sabalenka, Swiatek bt Beatriz Haddad Maia (Brazil)

Jun 9

French Open men’s singles semi-finals – Djokovic bt Alcaraz, Ruud bt Zverev

Faith Kipyegon breaks women's 5000m world record at the Diamond League meeting in Paris

Jun 10

French Open women’s singles final – Swiatek bt Muchova. Third French Open title and fourth Grand Slam singles title

French Open men’s doubles final – Dodig and Krajicek bt Gille and Vliegen

Champions League final (Ataturk Stadium, Istanbul) Man City 1 (Rodri) Inter Milan 0

Man of the Match – Rodri

Belmont Stakes – Arcangelo

Jun 11

French Open men’s singles final – Djokovic bt Ruud. Third French Open title. Djokovic now has a record 23 Grand Slam tournament singles titles

French Open women’s doubles final – Hsieh and Wang bt Fernandez and Townsend

World Test Championship final (The Oval) Australia 469 (Head 163, Smith 121) and 270-8 India 296 and 234. Australia won by 209 runs

Charlotte Edwards Cup final – Southern Vipers bt The Blaze

The Blaze, previously known as Lightning, represent the East Midlands region

Netball Super League final – Loughborough Lightning bt London Pulse

Ferrari win the Le Mans 24 Hours 100th anniversary race, with a line-up including Britain's James Calado

Jun 12

Katie Boulter replaces Emma Raducanu as British number one women's player

NBA finals – Denver Nuggets bt Miami Heat

MVP – Nikola Jokic

Regular season MVP – Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers)

Jun 13

Former England and Wasps prop Paul Rendall dies

Stanley Cup – Vegas Golden Knights bt Florida Panthers

MVP – Jonathan Marchessault

Regular season MVP – Connor McDavid (Edmonton Oilers)

Jun 14

John Hollins dies

Jude Bellingham moves from Borussia Dortmund to Real Madrid

Surrey chase 501-5 to beat Kent. Dom Sibley makes the slowest first-class century ever made in the County Championship – both in terms of balls batted (363 balls) and time spent at the crease (502 minutes)

Nations League semi-final – Croatia bt Netherlands

Jun 15

Gordon McQueen dies

The all-female W Series motor racing championship enters administration

Nations League semi-final – Spain bt Italy

Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele record the US Open's first rounds of 62

Jun 16

Zak Crawley hits the first ball of The Ashes for four

Gino Mader dies during the Tour de Suisse

Jun 17

Top 14 final – Toulouse bt La Rochelle

King’s Birthday Honours –

CBE – Sarah Hunter

OBE – Ian Wright

MBE – Eniola Aluko, Fallon Sherrock

Jun 18

Canadian GP – Verstappen, Alonso, Hamilton

Nations League final (Rotterdam) – Spain bt Croatia

Nottingham Open men’s – Andy Murray bt Arthur Cazaux (France)

Nottingham Open women’s – Katie Boulter bt Jodie Burrage

First all-British WTA final since Sue Barker beat Virginia Wade in 1977

US Open (Los Angeles Country Club) – Wyndham Clark. 2nd McIlroy. 3rd Scheffler

World Cup of Darts final – Wales (Pryce and Clayton) bt Scotland (Wright and Anderson)

Andoni Iraola replaces Gary O’Neil as manager of Bournemouth

Jun 19

England 7 North Macedonia 0. Hat-trick for Saka. Match played at Old Trafford

Jun 20

St James’s Palace Stakes – Paddington. Trainer Aidan O'Brien’s record 83rd victory at Royal Ascot

Hollie Doyle becomes the first woman to ride a top-level Group One winner at Royal Ascot as Bradsell wins the King's Stand Stakes

First Test (Edgbaston) England 393-8 (Root 118*) & 273 Australia 386 (Khawaja 141) & 282-8 Australia won by two wickets

Ninth-wicket pair Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon added an unbroken 55

N’Golo Kante moves from Chelsea to Saudi Arabian champions Al-Ittihad

Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the first men's player to win 200 international caps

Jun 21

Southampton name Swansea boss Russell Martin as their new manager

Prince of Wales's Stakes – Mostahdaf

Royal Hunt Cup – Jimi Hendrix

Jun 22

Gold Cup – Courage Mon Ami (Frankie Dettori)

King George V Stakes – Desert Hero

Valiant Force wins the Norfolk Stakes at odds of 150-1 to become the joint biggest-priced winner at Royal Ascot

Victor Wembanyama chosen by San Antonio Spurs as first pick in NBA draft. Amen Thompson is selected with the No. 4 pick by the Houston Rockets and Ausar Thompson is taken with the No. 5 pick by the Detroit Pistons. They are identical twins

Jun 23

Coronation Stakes – Tahiyra

Leading jockey at Ascot – Ryan Moore

Leading trainer at Ascot – Aidan O’Brien

Ruben Neves moves from Wolves to Al-Hilal

Graeme Souness completes a swim across the English Channel to raise £1m for charity

Jun 24

Premier 15s final – Gloucester-Hartpury Women bt Exeter Chiefs Women

Super Rugby Pacific final – Crusaders bt Chiefs

Zharnel Hughes breaks Linford Christie's British men's 100m record, which had stood for 30 years

Jun 25

Queen’s Club Championships final – Alcaraz bt De Minaur

Birmingham Classic final – Ostapenko bt Krejcikova

Kalidou Koulibaly moves from Chelsea to Al-Hilal

European Athletics Team Championships won by Italy. GB finished fifth and won no individual gold medals. Held in Poland

Chicago Cubs and St Louis Cardinals draw MLB London Series 1-1

Women’s PGA – Yin Ruoning (China)

Jun 26

Manchester City captain Ilkay Gundogan joins Barcelona on a free transfer

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are part of an investor group taking a 24% equity stake in Formula 1 team Alpine

Women’s Ashes Test (Trent Bridge) – Australia 473 (Sutherland 137*, Ecclestone 5-129) and 257 (Ecclestone 5-63) England 463 (Beaumont 208) and 178 (Gardner 8-66) Australia won by 89 runs

Tammy Beaumont scores England women's first double century and breaks Betty Snowball's 88-year-old individual record of 189

Craig Brown dies

Jun 27

Kent 621 against Northants. Daniel Bell-Drummond scores 300

Jun 28

Jonny Bairstow carries Just Stop Oil protestor off the field in second Test at Lord’s

Edouard Mendy moves from Chelsea to Al-Ahli

Kai Havertz moves from Chelsea to Arsenal

July

Jul 1

Eastbourne International final – Keys bt Kasatkina

Tour de France starts in Bilbao. Adam Yates beats identical twin brother Simon to win stage one

Joe Root takes his 176th catch, the highest by a player for England in Test cricket

Savannah Marshall becomes the undisputed super-middleweight champion

English Greyhound Derby – Gaytime Nemo

Jul 2

Second Test (Lord’s) Australia 416 (Smith 110) and 279 England 325 (Duckett 98) and 327 (Stokes 155) Australia won by 43 runs

Stokes hit nine sixes, the record for an Ashes innings

Bairstow was controversially given out after he wandered out of his ground as wicketkeeper Alex Carey threw the ball at the stumps

Dominik Szoboszlai moves from RB Leipzig to Liverpool

Austrian GP – Verstappen, Leclerc, Perez

Irish Derby – Auguste Rodin

Jul 3

Steven Gerrard is appointed manager of Saudi Arabian side Al-Ettifaq

Jul 4

Alessia Russo joins Arsenal on free transfer following her departure from Man Utd

Daniel Farke is appointed manager of Leeds Utd

Forest Green Rovers appoint Hannah Dingley as their new caretaker boss, making her the first woman to manage a professional men's team in English football

Jul 5

Jai Hindley takes the yellow jersey in Tour de France

Mason Mount moves from Chelsea to Man Utd

Jul 6

Wimbledon men’s singles second round – Broady bt Ruud

Granit Xhaka moves from Arsenal to Bayer Leverkusen

Jonas Vingegaard takes the yellow jersey in Tour de France

Georgian team Black Lion and South African side Cheetahs are invited to join the 2023-24 European Challenge Cup

Jul 7

Wimbledon men’s singles third round – Tsitsipas bt Murray, Eubanks bt Norrie, Shapovalov bt Broady

Jul 8

Euro Under-21 Championship final (Georgia) England 1 (Curtis Jones) Spain 0

England goalkeeper James Trafford saved a last-minute penalty

Wimbledon women’s singles third round – Rybakina bt Boulter

Eclipse Stakes – Paddington

Jul 9

Third Test (Headingley) Australia 263 (Marsh 118, Wood 5-34) and 224 England 237 (Cummins 6-91) & 254-7 (Starc 5-78) England won by three wickets

British GP – Verstappen, Norris, Hamilton

Cameron Smith wins LIV Golf London event

Stuart Hogg retires

U.S. Women’s Open (Pebble Beach) Allisen Corpuz (USA). 2nd Charley Hull

Jul 11

Wimbledon women’s singles quarter-final – Svitolina bt Swiatek

Daniel Ricciardo replaces Nyck de Vries at Alpha Tauri for the rest of the F1 season

Jul 12

State of Origin – Queensland Maroons bt New South Wales Blues

Jul 13

Wimbledon women’s singles semi-finals – Vondrousova bt Svitolina, Jabeur bt Sabalenka

Wimbledon mixed doubles final – Pavic and Kichenok bt Vliegen and Xu

Christian Pulisic moves from Chelsea to AC Milan

Texas Super Kings bt Los Angeles Knight Riders in first Major League Cricket match in Dallas

Jul 14

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

Jurrien Timber moves from Ajax to Arsenal

World Aquatics Championships start in Fukuoka, Japan

Jul 15

Wimbledon women’s singles final – Vondrousova bt Jabeur

Vondrousova becomes the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon women's singles title

Wimbledon men’s doubles final – Skupski and Koolhof bt Granollers and Zeballos

Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid win their fifth Wimbledon men's wheelchair doubles title together

Wimbledon wheelchair women’s singles – Diede de Groot (Netherlands). It was her eleventh consecutive major singles title

T20 Blast Finals Day (Edgbaston). Semi-finals – Essex Eagles bt Hampshire Hawks, Somerset bt Surrey

Final – Somerset bt Essex Eagles

Declan Rice moves from West Ham to Arsenal for £105 million

Lionel Messi signs for Inter Miami after leaving Paris Saint-Germain

Jul 16

Wimbledon men’s singles final – Alcaraz bt Djokovic

Wimbledon women’s doubles final – Hsieh and Strycova bt Mertens and Hunter

Wimbledon boy’s singles – Henry Searle. First British winner since Stanley Matthews in 1962

Scottish Open – McIlroy

Women's Ashes: Second ODI – Australia 282-7 England 279-7 (Sciver-Brunt 111). Australia retain the Women’s Ashes

Jul 19

Broad takes 600th Test wicket, dismissing Travis Head

Jul 20

Andre Onana moves from Inter Milan to Man Utd

Opening match in Women’s World Cup – New Zealand 1 (Wilkinson) Norway 0

Jul 21

Faith Kipyegon breaks the women's mile world record

Travis Smyth hits hole-in-one at The Open

Championship League Snooker final – Shaun Murphy bt Mark Williams

Jul 22

Challenge Cup semi-final – Leigh Leopards bt St Helens

England 1 (Stanway) Haiti 0

Jul 23

Fourth Test (Old Trafford) Australia 317 (Woakes 5-62) and 214-5 (Labuschagne 111) England 592 (Crawley 189, Bairstow 99*, Hazlewood 5-126). Match drawn

The Open (Royal Liverpool) Brian Harman -13, 2nd Jon Rahm, Jason Day, Sepp Straka, Joo-Hyung Kim -7

2024 Open will be held at Royal Troon

Zharnel Hughes breaks the British 200m record, set by John Regis in 1993

Tour de France – Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark, Team Jumbo-Visma) 2nd Tadej Pogacar, 3rd Adam Yates 4th Simon Yates

Points – Jasper Philipsen

Mountains – Guilio Ciccone

Youth – Tadej Pogacar

Combativity – Victor Campenaerts

Team – Team Jumbo-Visma

Challenge Cup semi-final – Hull KR bt Wigan

Hungarian GP – Verstappen, Norris, Perez

All-Ireland Hurling final – Limerick bt Kilkenny

Harvey Barnes moves from Leicester City to Newcastle Utd

World Matchplay darts final – Nathan Aspinall bt Jonny Clayton

Leon Marchand (France) breaks Michael Phelps’ world record in the 400m individual medley, then the longest-standing mark in the world

Jul 24

Trevor Francis dies

Women’s World Cup – Ary Borges hat-trick for Brazil against Panama

Jul 25

Men’s 200m freestyle – Matt Richards. Silver – Tom Dean

Jul 27

Jordan Henderson moves from Liverpool to Al-Ettifaq

Jul 28

England 1 (James) Denmark 0

Juventus are kicked out of this season's Europa Conference League by Uefa and fined for breaching Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules

Chelsea are fined £8 million for breaching FFP rules

Men’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay – GB (Scott, Richards, Guy, Dean)

Jul 29

Rugby Championship – New Zealand

Terence Crawford bt Errol Spence to become the four-belt era's first undisputed welterweight champion

Katie Ledecky wins the women's 800m freestyle in Fukuoka for a record 16th individual world gold and a record sixth in a single event

King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes – Hukum

Speedway World Cup – Poland. 2nd Great Britain

Clive Rowlands dies

Jul 30

Morocco defender Nouhaila Benzina makes history by becoming the first player to wear a hijab at a World Cup

World Aquatics Championships finish. China topped the medal table

Triple individual gold medallists Leon Marchand and Kaylee McKeown are named best male and female swimmers of the World Aquatics Championships

Backstroke swimmer Kaylee McKeown (Australia) became the first female in worlds history to complete the 50m, 100m and 200m treble in any stroke

Sarah Sjostrom wins a 21st individual world medal to surpass Michael Phelps’ tally

Belgian GP – Verstappen, Perez, Leclerc

All-Ireland Senior Football final – Dublin bt Kerry

Evian Championship – Celine Boutier (France)

Formula E World Championship – Jake Dennis, driving for Andretti Avalanche

Tour de France Femmes – Demi Vollering (Netherlands)

Senior Open Championship – Alex Cejka

Jul 31

Fifth Test (The Oval) England 283 and 395 Australia 295 and 334. England won by 49 runs. Series drawn 2-2

Player of the series (Compton-Miller Medal) – Chris Woakes

Stuart Broad hit a six with his final ball faced in Test cricket, and took the final wicket of Alex Carey

Stuart Broad retires. Played 165 Test matches, scored 3,640 runs and took 604 wickets. He has the Test cricket record for the most runs in both the 9 and 10 batting positions

August

Aug 1

England 6 (James (2), Russo, Hemp, Kelly, Daly) China 1

Goodwood Cup – Quickthorn

Aug 2

Brazil knocked out of Women’s World Cup after drawing with Jamaica. Marta played in her sixth tournament for Brazil

Sussex Stakes – Paddington

Aug 3

Germany knocked out of Women’s World Cup after drawing with South Korea

Cycling World Championships start in Glasgow

Aug 5

Josko Gvardiol moves from RB Leipzig to Man City

Rasmus Hojlund moves from Atalanta to Man Utd

Netball World Cup semi-finals – England bt New Zealand, Australia bt Jamaica

Leigh Halfpenny makes 100th appearance for Wales

Aug 6

USA knocked out of Women’s World Cup by Sweden

Netball World Cup final (Cape Town) – Australia bt England. Australia, known as the Australian Diamonds, win their 12th title

FA Community Shield – Arsenal bt Man City

Bryson DeChambeau hits 58 in final round to win LIV Golf Greenbrier title

Men’s Elite Road Race – Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands)

Aug 9

Former Bournemouth boss Gary O'Neil is announced as the new manager of Wolves

Spencer Johnson takes 3-1 from 20 balls for Oval Invincibles in The Hundred

Women’s time trial – Chloe Dygert (USA)

Aug 11

Erling Haaland scores first goal in the new Premier League season, against Burnley

Premier League shirt sponsors: Aston Villa – BK8, Burnley – W88, Luton Town – Utilita, Newcastle Utd – Sela, Sheffield Utd – CFI Financial Group

Harry Kane moves from Spurs to Bayern Munich

Men’s time trial – Remco Evanepoel (Belgium)

Aug 12

Quarter-final – England 2 (Hemp, Russo) Colombia 1

Owen Farrell becomes the first England player to have a yellow card upgraded to a red by the new 'Bunker' review system, in a match against Wales

Harry Kane makes debut for Bayern Munich against RB Leipzig

Challenge Cup final – Leigh Leopards 17 Hull KR 16. Lachlan Lam scored the winning golden point drop-goal. Lance Todd Trophy – Lachlan Lam. Leigh coach – Adrian Lam

Women’s Challenge Cup final – St Helens bt Leeds Rhinos

Following a Eurosport merger, BT Sport changes its name to TNT Sports

Arlington Million – Set Piece

Aug 13

Women’s British Open (Walton Heath) – Lilia Vu (USA). 2nd Charley Hull

James Bracey 224 for Gloucestershire against Somerset in One Day Cup

Women’s road race – Lotte Kopecky (Belgium)

Aug 14

Tammy Beaumont scores the first century in The Hundred women's competition with 118 for Welsh Fire against Trent Rockets

Moises Caicedo moves from Brighton to Chelsea for £100 million

James Ward-Prowse moves from Southampton to West Ham

Aug 15

Semi-final – Spain bt Sweden

Neymar moves from Paris Saint-Germain to Al-Hilal

Aug 16

Semi-final (Sydney) England 3 (Toone, Hemp, Russo) Australia 1 (Kerr)

Uefa Super Cup (Piraeus, Greece) Man City 1 (Palmer) Sevilla 1. Man City won on penalties

Aug 18

Harry Kane scores on Bundesliga debut against Werder Bremen

Aug 19

Third place play-off – Sweden bt Australia

World Athletics Championships start in Budapest

Men’s shot put – Ryan Crouser

Mixed 4x400m relay – USA. Silver – GB (Davey, Mitcham, Nielsen, John)

Ten metres from the finish, Femke Bol (Netherlands) started to lean for the finish and crashed to the track

Women’s 10000m – Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia)

Keith Earls wins 100th cap for Ireland, against England. Billy Vunipola sent off

Aleksandar Mitrovic moves from Fulham to Al-Hilal

Aug 20

Women’s World Cup final (Stadium Australia, Sydney) – Spain 1 (Carmona) England 0

Mary Earps saved a penalty from Jenni Hermoso

During the medal ceremony, Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales kissed Jennifer Hermoso on the lips

Golden boot – Aitana Bonmati (Spain)

Golden ball – Hinate Miyazawa (Japan). 5 goals

Golden glove – Mary Earps

Heptathlon – Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Silver – Anna Hall (USA). Johnson-Thompson won by 20 points

Men’s 100m – Noah Lyles. Silver – Letsile Tebogo (Botswana). Bronze – Zharnel Hughes

Men’s 10000m – Joseph Cheptegui (Uganda)

Men’s hammer – Ethan Katsberg (Canada)

Women’s 100m – Sha’Carri Richardson (USA). Silver – Shericka Jackson (Jamaica). Bronze – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Women’s long jump – Ivana Vuleta (Serbia)

Aug 21

Men’s 110m hurdles – Grant Holloway (USA)

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

Men’s discus – Daniel Stahl (Sweden)

Aug 22

Women’s 1500m – Faith Kipyegon

Women’s discus – Laulauga Tausaga (USA)

Harry Brook hits 105 for Superchargers against Fire in The Hundred

Aug 23

Men’s 1500m – Josh Kerr. Silver – Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Women’s 400m – Marileidy Paulino (Dominican Republic)

Women’s pole vault – Nina Kennedy (Australia) and Katie Moon (USA) tied for first place. 5th Molly Caudery

Men’s 400m hurdles – Karsten Warholm

Men’s high jump – Gianmarco Tamberi (Italy)

Aug 24

Men’s 400m – Antonio Watson (Jamaica). Silver – Matthew Hudson-Smith

Men’s long jump – Miltiadis Tentoglou (Greece)

Women’s 100m hurdles – Danielle Williams (Jamaica)

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

Women’s hammer – Camryn Rogers (Canada)

Jeremy Doku moves from Rennes to Man City

Aug 25

Men’s 200m – Noah Lyles. 4th Zharnel Hughes

Women’s 200m – Shericka Jackson. Silver – Gabrielle Thomas (USA). Bronze – Sha’Carri Richardson

Women’s triple jump – Yulimar Rojas

Women’s javelin – Haruka Kitaguchi (Japan)

Aug 26

Men’s 800m – Marco Arop (Canada). Bronze – Ben Pattison

Men’s pole vault – Armand Duplantis

Decathlon – Pierce LePage (Canada)

Women’s 5000m – Faith Kipyegon. Silver – Sifan Hassan

Men’s 4 x 100m relay – USA

Women’s marathon – Amane Beriso Shankule (Ethiopia)

Women’s shot put – Chase Ealey (USA)

Women’s 4 x 100m relay – USA. Bronze – GB (Philip, Lansiquot, Williams, Neita)

England lose to Fiji in rugby union for the first time. Courtney Lawes wins 100th cap

Aug 27

Men’s 5000m – Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Men’s marathon – Victor Kiplangat (Uganda)

Men’s javelin – Neerav Chopra (India)

Women’s 800m – Mary Moraa (Kenya). Silver – Keely Hodgkinson

Women’s 4 x 400m relay – Netherlands. Bronze – GB (Nielsen, Anning, Pipi, Yeargin)

Men’s 4 x 400m relay – USA. Bronze – GB (Haydock-Wilson, Dobson, Davey, Mitcham)

Women’s high jump – Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Ukraine). 4th Morgan Lake

Final medal table – 1st USA (12-8-9) 29. 2nd Canada. 3rd Spain. 7th GB (2-3-5) 10

The Hundred finals (Lords). Men – Oval Invincibles bt Manchester Originals. Women – Southern Brave bt Northern Superchargers

Men: most runs – Jos Buttler, most wickets – Tymal Mills

Women: most runs – Danni Wyatt, most wickets – Georgia Adams

Men’s player of the series – Jamie Overton (Manchester Originals)

Women’s player of the series – Marizanne Kapp (Oval Invincibles)

Dutch GP – Verstappen, Alonso, Gasly

FedEx Cup – Viktor Hovland

Aug 29

One-Day Cup semi-finals – Hampshire bt Warwickshire. Liam Dawson 7-15 for Hampshire. Leicestershire bt Gloucestershire

PFA Player of the Year awards –

Men’s player – Erling Haaland

Men’s young player – Bukayo Saka

Women’s player – Rachel Daly

Women’s young player – Lauren James

Aug 30

Champions League Qualifying play-off – PSV Eindhoven bt Rangers

The record attendance for a women's sporting event is broken at a United States college volleyball match. A crowd of 92,003 fans watched Nebraska beat Omaha at their Memorial Stadium

Aug 31

Uefa Player of the Year Awards –

Men’s Player of the Year – Erling Haaland

Men's Coach of the Year – Pep Guardiola

Women's Player of the Year – Aitana Bonmati

Women's Coach of the Year – Sarina Wiegman

President's Award – Miroslav Klose

September

Sep 1

Gus Atkinson takes four wickets on England debut in T20 match against New Zealand

Transfer deadline day –

Alex Iwobi moves from Everton to Fulham

Brennan Johnson moves from Nottingham Forest to Spurs

Cole Palmer moves from Man City to Chelsea

Matheus Nunes moves from Wolves to Man City

Callum Hudson-Odoi moves from Chelsea to Nottingham Forest

Sep 2

Haaland hat-trick against Fulham

Son hat-trick for Spurs against Burnley

Evan Ferguson hat-trick for Brighton against Newcastle

Sep 3

Heath Streak dies

Italian GP – Verstappen, Perez, Sainz

Record tenth successive win for Verstappen

Walker Cup (St Andrews) USA bt Great Britain and Ireland

Burghley Horse Trials – Oliver Townend, riding Ballaghmor Class

World Rowing Championships (Belgrade) – GB win six gold medals

Sep 4

Ludvig Aberg will make his Ryder Cup debut for Europe after being named in captain Luke Donald's six wildcard picks

US Open men's fourth round – Andrey Rublev bt Jack Draper

Sep 5

Jorge Vilda, Spain's Women's World Cup-winning head coach, has been sacked amid the ongoing Luis Rubiales scandal

A horse called Doom is beaten at odds of 1-25 to become the joint shortest-priced loser in British racing history. It lost out to 9-1 chance Karmology in a two-horse race at Ripon

Sep 6

Sri Lanka women defeat England in a series for the first time, winning the T20 series 2-1

Sep 7

US Open women’s semi-finals – Gauff bt Muchova, Sabalenka bt Keys

Edward Hide dies

Sep 8

US Open men’s semi-finals – Djokovic bt Ben Shelton (USA), Medvedev bt Alcaraz

US Open men’s doubles final – Ram and Salisbury bt Bopanna and Ebden. Third successive win

Demarai Gray moves from Everton to Al-Ettifaq

Rugby World Cup starts in Paris. Chile makes its first ever appearance. Canada failed to qualify for the first time

Opening match – France 27 New Zealand 13. First try scored by Mark Telea (New Zealand)

Sep 9

US Open women’s singles final – Gauff bt Sabalenka

US Open mixed doubles final – Helioevaara and Danilena bt Krajicek and Pegula

Ireland 82 Romania 8

England 27 Argentina 3. All of England’s points were scored by George Ford (6 penalties, 3 drop goals). Tom Curry becomes the first English player to be sent off at a Rugby World Cup. Match played in Marseille

Ukraine 1 England 1. Kyle Walker scored his first England goal on his 77th appearance. Match played in Wroclaw

European Dressage Championships. Team – GB (Gareth Hughes, Carl Hester, Charlotte Dujardin, Charlotte Fry)

Sep 10

US Open men’s singles final – Djokovic bt Medvedev. Fourth US Open title and 24th major singles title overall

US Open women’s doubles final – Dabrowski and Routliffe bt Siegemund and Zvonareva

Great North Run. Men – Tamirat Tola (Ethiopia). Women – Peres Jepchirchir (Kenya)

Mo Farah finished fourth in the final race of his career

Tour of Britain – Wout van Aert

IndyCar Series – Alex Palou

Sep 12

Scotland 1 (Maguire o.g.) England 3 (Foden, Bellingham, Kane)

150th anniversary of the first official meeting between Scotland and England

Simona Halep banned for four years for doping

Sep 13

Ben Stokes hits 182 against New Zealand, the highest score by an England batter in a one-day international

Perrie Mans dies

Sep 15

Dawid Malan 127 in final ODI against New Zealand. England win series 3-1

Sep 16

One Day Cup final (Trent Bridge) Leicestershire 267-7 (Swindells 117) Hampshire 265-8

Johnny Sexton becomes Ireland's all-time record points scorer, surpassing Ronan O'Gara who scored 1083 points

St Leger – Continuous (Ryan Moore), trained by Aidan O’Brien. Desert Hero, owned by King Charles, finished third

Sep 17

Singapore GP – Sainz, Norris, Hamilton. 5th Verstappen

Liam Lawson (New Zealand) replaced Daniel Ricciardo at AlphaTauri and finished ninth

BMW PGA Championship – Ryan Fox (New Zealand)

Shanghai Masters final – O’Sullivan bt Brecel

Vuelta a Espana – Sepp Kuss (USA, Team Jumbo-Visma). 2nd Vingegaard. 3rd Roglic

Diamond League finals held in Eugene, Oregon (Prefontaine Classic) –

Men’s 100m – Christian Coleman

Men’s 200m – Andre de Grasse

Men’s 400m – Kirani James

Men’s 1500m and 5000m – Jakob Ingebritsen

Men’s pole vault – Armand Duplantis. New world record of 6.23m

Women’s 100m and 200m – Shericka Jackson

Women’s 400m – Marileidy Paulino

Women’s 800m – Athing Mu

Women’s 1500m – Faith Kipyegon

Women’s 5000m – Gudaf Tsegay. New world record of 14:00.21

Women’s triple jump – Yulimar Rojas

Women’s pole vault – Katie Moon

Fiji 22 Australia 15

England 34 Japan 12

Davis Cup – GB beat Switzerland, Australia and France to advance to the finals in Malaga

World Series of Darts final – Michael van Gerwen bt Nathan Aspinall

Sep 19

Union Berlin and Antwerp made their debut appearances in the group stage of the Champions League

Sep 20

Sheffield Utd player Maddy Cusack dies

Sep 21

France 96 Namibia 0

Sep 22

Emily Pedersen hits a hole-in-one in Solheim Cup

League Leaders’ Shield – Wigan Warriors

Wakefield Trinity are relegated from the Super League

Julian Nagelsmann replaces Hansi Flick as the new head coach of Germany

Aaron Rodgers ruptures an Achilles tendon in first game for New York Jets

Sep 23

England 71 Chile 0. Henry Arundell scores five tries

Ireland 13 South Africa 8

Georgia 18 Portugal 18. This was the first draw in a World Cup match since 2011

2022 Asian Games start in Hangzhou, China

Sep 24

Solheim Cup (Finca Cortesin, Spain) – Europe 14 USA 14. Europe retain the trophy

Spain's Carlota Ciganda holed the winning putt and won all four matches she played in

European captain – Suzann Petersen

US captain – Stacey Lewis

Japanese GP – Verstappen, Norris, Piastri. First podium finish for Piastri

Red Bull win constructor’s title with six races to spare

Berlin marathon. Men’s – Eliud Kipchoge. Women’s – Tigist Assefa (Ethiopia) in a world record time of 2:11.53

World Triathlon Championship Series Finals. Men – Dorian Coninx (France). Women – Beth Potter. 2nd Kate Waugh

Sheffield Utd 0 Newcastle Utd 8. Eight different players scored goals

Scotland 40 Australia 6

Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy final – Southern Vipers bt The Blaze

Southern Vipers head coach Charlotte Edwards also steered Southern Brave to victory in The Hundred

Miami Dolphins score the second-highest number of points in a game in NFL history as they beat the Denver Broncos 70-20

Caribbean Premier League (CPLT20) final – Guyana Amazon Warriors bt Trinbago Knight Riders

Sep 27

EFL Cup third round – Newcastle Utd bt Man City

Sep 28

Rugby union Championship club Jersey Reds ceases trading

Sep 29

County Championship won by Surrey. Captain – Rory Burns. Coach – Gareth Batty

Relegated – Middlesex, Northamptonshire

Promoted – Durham, Worcestershire

New Zealand 96 Italy 17

Sam Whitelock sets a new record of 149 New Zealand caps

Sep 30

Aston Villa 6 (Watkins 3) Brighton 1

Darcy Graham scores four tries for Scotland against Romania

Wolves bt Man City. First defeat of the season for Man City

Ryder Cup – Hovland and Aberg bt Scheffler and Koepka 9&7

McIlroy is involved in an angry exchange with Patrick Cantlay's caddie Joe LaCava over his celebrations on the 18th green

Patrick Cantlay refuses to wear the Ryder Cup cap

World Artistic Gymnastics Championships start in Antwerp

Luis Diaz goal for Liverpool against Spurs wrongly disallowed by VAR Darren England and assistant VAR Dan Cook

Cambridgeshire Handicap – Astro King

AFL Grand Final – Collingwood bt Brisbane Lions

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

Chelsea confirm Infinite Athlete as new sponsor in £43m deal

October

Oct 1

Ryder Cup (Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, Rome) – Europe 16 ½ United States 11 ½

Tommy Fleetwood won the point that secured the cup for Europe

Rory McIlroy was the only player to win four matches

British Open snooker final – Williams bt Selby

Simone Biles becomes the first woman to land a Yurchenko double pike vault

Mark Nicholas succeeds Stephen Fry as the next president of the Marylebone Cricket Club

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – Ace Impact

NRL Grand Final – Penrith Panthers bt Brisbane Broncos

Oct 2

Francis Lee dies

Oct 3

PCA Player of the Year – Harry Brook

Young Player – James Rew (Somerset)

Women’s Player – Tammy Beaumont

Oct 4

Spain, Portugal, and Morocco are named as the co-hosts for the 2030 World Cup, with the opening three matches taking place in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay

Oct 5

Opening match of Cricket World Cup in Ahmedabad – England 282-9 New Zealand 283-1 (Conway 152*, Ravindra 123*)

Men’s all-around – Daiki Hashimoto (Japan)

Oct 6

Women’s all-around – Simone Biles

Simone Biles becomes the most decorated gymnast in history. Her total of 34 world and Olympic medals is more than any other gymnast, male or female

Super League semi-final – Catalans Dragons bt St Helens

Oct 7

England 18 Samoa 17. Winning try scored by Danny Care

Owen Farrell becomes England's record points scorer with 1,181

Super League semi-final – Wigan bt Hull KR

South Africa 428-5 (Van der Dussen 108, Markram 106, De Kock 100) Sri Lanka 326

Aiden Markram hit the fastest World Cup hundred, off 49 balls

Men’s floor – Artem Dolgopyat (Israel)

Pommel horse – Rhys McClenaghan

Women’s vault – Rebeca Andrade (Brazil)

Qatar GP sprint – Piastri, Verstappen, Norris

Verstappen wins third Formula 1 drivers' world championship with six races to spare

Oct 8

Women's Super League Grand Final – York bt Leeds

Chicago Marathon – Kelvin Kiptum, in a new world record time of 2:00.35

Men’s vault – Jake Jarman

Beam – Simone Biles

Women’s floor – Simone Biles

Qatar GP – Verstappen, Piastri, Norris

Portugal bt Fiji

Final pool tables –

Pool A – France, New Zealand, Italy, Uruguay, Namibia

Pool B – Ireland, South Africa, Scotland, Tonga, Romania

Pool C – Wales, Fiji, Australia, Portugal, Georgia

Pool D – England, Argentina, Japan, Samoa, Chile

World Grand Prix darts final – Luke Humphries bt Gerwyn Price

British Touring Car Championship – Ashley Sutton. Fourth win

English Open snooker final – Judd Trump bt Zhang Anda

Oct 10

Dawid Malan hits 140 for England against Bangladesh

Joe Root becomes England's all-time record run-scorer in World Cups, surpassing Graham Gooch

UK & Ireland are announced as Euro 2028 hosts

Turkey and Italy are named Euro 2032 hosts

Pakistan chase a World Cup record 345 to beat Sri Lanka. The match is the first in World Cup history to have four centuries

Oct 11

Wayne Rooney is appointed as manager of Birmingham City after leaving DC United

Steve Prescott Man of Steel – Bevan French (Wigan Warriors)

Woman of Steel – Sinead Peach (York Valkyrie)

Oct 13

Alistair Cook retires. He scored 26,643 runs from 352 first-class matches

Levi Colwill (Chelsea) makes England debut against Australia

Oct 14

Super League Grand Final (Old Trafford) Wigan 10 Catalans Dragons 2. Liam Marshall scored the only try. Harry Sunderland Trophy – Jake Wardle. Sam Tomkins retires

Quarter-finals – Argentina 29 Wales 17

New Zealand 28 Ireland 24. Ireland lose in quarter-finals for the eighth time. Johnny Sexton retires

Ironman World Championship – Lucy Charles-Barclay

Tommy Fury bt KSI in a six-round cruiserweight contest

Cesarewitch – The Shunter

Oct 15

Quarter-finals – England 30 Fiji 24

South Africa 29 France 28

Cricket World Cup – England suffer their first loss to Afghanistan in any format

Philippe Clement replaces Michael Beale as manager of Rangers

RFL Championship Grand Final – London Broncos bt Toulouse Olympique

Featherstone Rovers won the League Leader's Shield

British Superbike Championship – Tommy Bridewell

Oct 17

Cricket World Cup – Netherlands bt South Africa

England bt Italy to qualify for Euro 2024

Oct 20

Rugby World Cup semi-final – New Zealand 44 Argentina 6. Will Jordan hat-trick

WNBA Finals – Las Vegas Aces bt New York Liberty

Oct 21

Bobby Charlton dies

Rugby World Cup semi-final – South Africa 16 England 15. Only try scored by RG Snyman. Winning penalty scored by Handre Pollard

Cricket World Cup – South Africa 399-7 (Klaasen 109) England 170

Champion Stakes at Ascot won by Frankie Dettori on King of Steel on his last British ride

Champion flat jockey – William Buick

Champion flat trainer – John and Thady Gosden

Oct 22

United States GP – Verstappen, Norris, Sainz

Hamilton finished in second place but was disqualified

LIV Golf Team Championship – Crushers GC, captained by Bryson DeChambeau

Oct 23

Bishan Bedi dies

Oct 24

Bill Kenwright dies

Oct 25

Cricket World Cup – Australia 399-8 Netherlands 90

Australia won by 309 runs, a record margin in the World Cup

Glenn Maxwell hits the fastest men's World Cup century, in 40 balls

Bas de Leede concedes 115 runs, an ODI record

Oct 26

Newcastle and Italy midfielder Sandro Tonali is banned for 10 months by the Italian Football Federation for breaching betting rules

Cricket World Cup – England 156 Sri Lanka 160-2

Oct 27

Bronze final (third place play-off) – England 26 Argentina 23

Oct 28

Cricket World Cup – Australia 388 New Zealand 383-9. Highest scoring game (771 runs) in World Cup history

Eddie Nketiah hat-trick for Arsenal against Sheffield Utd

Rugby World Cup final (Stade de France, Paris) – South Africa 12 New Zealand 11. Handre Pollard kicked four penalties. The only try was scored by Beauden Barrett. New Zealand captain Sam Cane was sent off. Referee – Wayne Barnes (England). Fourth title for South Africa. Captain – Siya Kolisi. Player of the match – Pieter-Steph du Toit. South Africa coach – Jacques Nienaber

Top try scorer – Will Jordan (New Zealand). 8 tries

Top points scorer – Owen Farrell. 75 points

Tyson Fury bt former UFC fighter Francis Ngannou in Saudi Arabia

Nottingham Panthers forward Adam Johnson dies after suffering a serious cut to his neck from a skate during a Challenge Cup match against Sheffield Steelers

Oct 29

Cricket World Cup – India 229 England 129

World Rally Championship – Kalle Rovanpera

European Darts Championship final – Peter Wright bt James Wade

Eddie Jones resigns as manager of Australia rugby union team

Superbike World Championships – Alvaro Bautista (Spain)

World Rugby Awards –

Player of the year – Ardie Savea (New Zealand)

Women’s player of the year – Marlie Packer (England)

Coach of the Year – Andy Farrell (Ireland)

Oct 30

Ballon d’Or – Lionel Messi. Eighth win

Women’s Ballon d’Or – Aitana Bonmati

Kopa Trophy – Jude Bellingham

November

Nov 1

World Series – Texas Rangers bt Arizona Diamondbacks.  MVP – Corey Seager

American League MVP – Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Angels)

National League MVP – Ronald Acuna (Atlanta Braves)

Nov 2

Wayne Barnes announces his retirement from refereeing following the Rugby World Cup final

Cricket World Cup – India 357-8 Sri Lanka 55. The first five Sri Lankan batters scored a total of 2 runs

Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year – Mary Earps

Young Sportswoman of the Year – Mia Brookes

Team of the Year – England football

Nov 3

League of Ireland – Shamrock Rovers

Nov 4

Cricket World Cup – Australia 286 England 253. England are eliminated

Aldershot beat Swindon Town 7-4 in the FA Cup to become the first ever non-league side to score seven goals against league opponents

England rugby league team complete a 3-0 Test series victory over Tonga

Copa Libertadores final – Fluminense bt Boca Juniors

Breeders’ Cup Classic – White Abarrio

Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf – Inspiral

Breeder’s Cup Turf – Auguste Rodin

Nov 5

Sao Paulo GP – Verstappen, Norris, Alonso

NASCAR Cup Series – Ryan Blaney

Nov 6

Angelo Mathews becomes first international cricketer to be timed out, in a World Cup match for Sri Lanka against Bangladesh

Nicolas Jackson hat-trick for Chelsea against Spurs

Phil Neville is appointed manager of Major League Soccer team Portland Timbers

WTA Tour final (Cancun) – Swiatek bt Pegula

Nov 7

Melbourne Cup – Without a Fight

Glenn Maxwell hits 201* for Australia against Afghanistan. Maxwell shares a partnership of 202 for the eighth wicket with Pat Cummins (12*)

Champions League – Atletico Madrid 6 Celtic 0

Nov 9

Ace Impact named horse of the year at Cartier Racing Awards

Nov 10

Ange Postecoglou becomes the first boss ever to win the first three Manager of the Month awards available to him, and the first to claim the first three awards from the start of any Premier League season

Nov 11

David Willey takes his 100th ODI wicket in his final appearance for England

Nov 12

Billie Jean Cup Finals (Seville) – Canada bt Italy

Billie Jean King Cup play-off (Copper Box Arena, London) – GB bt Sweden. Katie Boulter won both of her matches

Cricket World Cup final table – India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Afghanistan, England, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Netherlands

Chelsea 4 Man City 4

International Championship snooker final – Zhang Anda bt Tom Ford

Zhang Anda made a 147 break in the final

Tom Aspinall becomes the first British mixed martial artist to win the UFC Heavyweight Championship

Nov 14

Chelsea boss Emma Hayes is named the new manager of the United States women's national team

Nov 15

Cricket World Cup semi-final – India 397-4 (Kohli 117, Shreyas 105) New Zealand 327 (Mitchell 134, Shami 7-57)

Virat Kohli breaks the record of Sachin Tendulkar as he hits his 50th one-day international century

Ultra-marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski is banned for 12 months by UK Athletics for using a car in a race

Nov 16

Cricket World Cup semi-final – South Africa 212 (Miller 101) Australia 215-7

Nov 17

Everton receive immediate 10-point Premier League deduction for financial rules breach

The first practice session of the Las Vegas GP is called off after Carlos Sainz's Ferrari hits a loose manhole cover, badly damaging his car

Nov 18

Euro 2024 qualifier – France 14 Gibraltar 0

Las Vegas GP – Verstappen, Leclerc, Perez

ATP World Tour Finals (Turin). Semi-finals – Djokovic bt Alcaraz, Sinner bt Medvedev

Nov 19

Cricket World Cup final (Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad) India 240 Australia 241-4 (Head 137). Australia won by six wickets

Most runs – Virat Kohli (765)

Most wickets – Mohammed Shami (24)

Player of the Tournament – Virat Kohli

DP World Tour Championship – Nicolai Hojgaard

Race to Dubai – Rory McIlroy

Champion of Champions final – Allen bt Trump

ATP Tour final – Djokovic bt Sinner

ATP Tour doubles final – Salisbury and Ram bt Granollers and Zeballos

Grey Cup – Montreal Alouettes bt Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Grand Slam of Darts final – Luke Humphries bt Rob Cross

Nov 21

Hayley Turner becomes the first female jockey in Europe to ride 1,000 winners

Nov 22

Barnsley are thrown out of the FA Cup for fielding an ineligible player in their first-round replay win at Horsham

Nov 23

Davis Cup quarter-final – Serbia bt GB. Miomir Kecmanovic bt Jack Draper, Novak Djokovic bt Cameron Norrie

Nov 25

Davis Cup semi-finals – Italy bt Serbia, Australia bt Finland

Katie Taylor bt Chantelle Cameron in Dublin to win WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF light-welterweight titles

Nov 26

Terry Venables dies

Abu Dhabi GP – Verstappen, Leclerc, Russell

19th win this season for Max Verstappen. Sergio Perez won two races. Carlos Sainz won one race (Singapore GP)

Red Bull won 21 races. Ferrari won one race

Final standings – 1st Max Verstappen 575 points, 2nd Sergio Perez 285 points, 3rd Lewis Hamilton 234 points

Constructors – 1st Red Bull 860 points, 2nd Ferrari 409 points, 3rd Mercedes 406 points

Formula 2 Championship – Theo Pourchaire (France)

MotoGP – Francesco Bagnaia (Italy), riding a Ducati

Constructors’ champion – Ducati

Moto2 – Pedro Acosta (Spain)

Moto3 – Jaume Masia (Spain)

MotoE – Mattia Casadei (Italy)

Davis Cup final (Malaga) – Italy 2 Australia 0. Arnaldi bt Popyrin, Sinner bt de Minaur

Nov 27

Cricket Writers' Club awards –

Bob Willis Trophy – Harry Brook

Women’s Cricket Award – Nat Sciver-Brunt

Nov 28

BBC Women's Footballer of the Year – Mary Earps

Nov 29

Champions League – Arsenal 6 Lens 0

December

Dec 2

Women’s Big Bash final – Adelaide Strikers bt Brisbane Heat

UK Championship semi-finals – O’Sullivan bt Vafaei, Ding bt Trump

Euro 2024 draw –

Group A: Germany, Scotland, Hungary, Switzerland

Group C: Slovenia, Denmark, Serbia, England

Dec 3

UK Championship final – O’Sullivan bt Ding. Eighth title for O’Sullivan

First ODI (Antigua) England 325 West Indies 325-6 (Hope 109*)

Hero World Challenge – Scottie Scheffler

Dec 5

Chris Wilder replaces Paul Heckingbottom as manager of Sheffield Utd

England bt Scotland 6-0 but fail to qualify for Women's Nations League finals and 2024 Olympics

Dec 6

Bangladesh's Mushfiqur Rahim becomes only the second Test batter in history to be dismissed for obstructing the field. Len Hutton was dismissed in this way in 1951

Dec 7

William Hill Sports Book of the Year – ‘Good For a Girl’ by Lauren Fleshman. The book covers both her own running career along with critiques and analysis of how professional sport treats female athletes

Shaun Murphy makes the first ever maximum break in the Snooker Shoot Out

Dec 8

Jon Rahm moves to LIV Golf

Dec 9

Mosconi Cup – Europe bt USA. MVP – Joshua Filler (Germany)

MLS Cup – Columbus Crew bt Los Angeles FC

Snooker Shoot Out – Mark Allen

Dec 10

Shohei Ohtani moves from Los Angeles Angels to Los Angeles Dodgers in a $700 million 10-year contract

Dec 11

World Athletes of the Year – Armand Duplantis, Tigist Assefa, Faith Kipyegon, Yulimar Rojas, Noah Lyles and Kelvin Kiptum

WTA Tour Player of the Year – Iga Swiatek

All Turkish league football is suspended after referee Halil Umut Meler is punched by MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca

Dec 13

Eddie Jones re-appointed as head coach of Japan

Dec 16

Luton’s match against Bournemouth is abandoned after Tom Lockyer suffers a cardiac arrest on the pitch

Stockport County 8 Sutton United 0

Phil Salt 109 vs West Indies in third T20 match

Dec 17

Nathan Lyon takes 500th Test wicket

Scottish League Cup final – Rangers bt Aberdeen

Scottish Open snooker final – Gary Wilson bt Noppon Saengkham

International Tennis Federation World Champions – Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka

Dec 18

Michael Beale is appointed as manager of Sunderland

Club World Cup semi-final – Fluminense bt Al Ahly

Dec 19

BBC Sports Personality of the Year – 1st Mary Earps 2nd Stuart Broad 3rd Katarina Johnson-Thompson

Other nominees – Frankie Dettori, Alfie Hewett, Rory McIlroy

World Sports Star – Erling Haaland

Coach of the Year – Pep Guardiola

Team of the Year – Manchester City

Young Personality – Mia Brookes

Lifetime Achievement Award – Kenny Dalglish

Helen Rollason Award – Fatima Whitbread

Unsung hero – Des Smith

The awards took place at Media City, Salford. 70th show

Club World Cup semi-final – Man City bt Urawa Red Diamonds

England score their highest T20 international total of 267-3 (Salt 119) against West Indies

Mitchell Starc becomes the most expensive signing in Indian Premier League history when he is bought for £2.3m by Kolkata Knight Riders

Dec 20

Nuno Espirito Santo replaces Steve Cooper as manager of Nottingham Forest

European Court of Justice rules that banning football clubs from joining a European Super League is unlawful

Dec 22

Club World Cup final (Jeddah) Man City 4 Fluminense 0

Dec 23

Rebecca Welch becomes the first ever woman to referee in the English Premier League, officiating in the fixture between Fulham and Burnley

Dominic Solanke hat-trick for Bournemouth against Nottingham Forest

Joseph Parker bt Deontay Wilder. Anthony Joshua bt Otto Wallin. Fights held in Saudi Arabia

Dec 24

Wolves play Chelsea in first Premier League match played on Christmas Eve in 28 years

Jim Ratcliffe agrees to buy a 25% stake in Manchester United

Dec 26

Sam Allison becomes the first black referee to take charge of a Premier League match in 15 years, officiating in the fixture between Sheffield United and Luton Town

King George VI Chase – Hewick

Chris Wood hat-trick for Nottingham Forest against Newcastle Utd

Dean Lewington makes his 771st league appearance for MK Dons, setting a new record for most career league appearances by a player for a single club in the history of the English Football League

Dec 27

Welsh Grand National – Nassalam

Dec 29

World Darts Championship third round – Chris Dobey bt Michael Smith

Dec 30

World Darts Championship fourth round – Luke Littler (aged 16) bt Raymond van Barneveld (aged 56)

Detroit Pistons bt Toronto Raptors to end their 28-match losing streak that equalled the longest losing run in NBA history

Dec 31

New Years Honours –

Knight Grand Cross – Bill Beaumont

Knighthood – Ron Dennis

CBE – Stuart Broad, Rob Burrow, Christian Horner, Peter Shilton, Kevin Sinfield

OBE – Millie Bright, Marcus Trescothick, Howard Wilkinson

MBE – Becky Downie, Ellie Downie, Mary Earps, Lauren Hemp, Stuart Hogg, Hazel Irvine, Jeff Stelling

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