Sport and Leisure/Sport 2022

January

Jan 1

European Capital of Sport – The Hague

Glasgow will be European Capital of Sport in 2023

Jan 2

Safe standing introduced at Chelsea v Liverpool match

Jan 3

PDC final – Peter Wright bt Michael Smith

Jan 6

Four Hills Tournament – Ryoyu Kobayashi

Jan 7

Kieran Trippier moves from Atletico Madrid to Newcastle Utd

Philippe Coutinho signs for Aston Villa on loan from Barcelona

Jan 8

Fourth Test (Sydney) Australia 416-8 (Usman Khawaja 137, Stuart Broad 5-101) and 265-6 (Usman Khawaja 137) England 294 (Jonny Bairstow 113) and 270-9. Match Drawn. Jimmy Anderson survived the final over

FA Cup third round – Cambridge Utd bt Newcastle Utd, Kidderminster bt Reading

Jan 9

FA Cup third round – Nottingham Forest bt Arsenal

ATP Cup final (Sydney) – Canada (Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov) bt Spain (Roberto Bautista Agut and Pablo Carreno Busta)

Tournament of Champions – Cameron Smith, with a record score of 34 under par

Jan 11

Reading 0 Fulham 7

Jan 12

Carabao Cup semi-final – Chelsea bt Spurs

Jan 14

Dakar Rally (Saudi Arabia) –

Cars – Nasser Al-Attiyah, driving a Toyota. 5th win

Bikes – Sam Sunderland, riding a KTM

Jan 15

Sydney Classic final – Aslan Karatsev bt Andy Murray

Jan 16

Fourth Test (Blundstone Arena, Hobart) Australia 303 (Travis Head 101) and 155 (Mark Wood 6-37) England 188 and 124. Australia won by 46 runs

Australia win series 4-0

Novak Djokovic deported after his visa to enter Australia was cancelled

Jack Harrison hat-trick for Leeds against West Ham

Rafa Benitez sacked as Everton manager

Masters snooker final – Neil Robertson bt Barry Hawkins. Referee – Desislava Bozhilova (Bulgaria)

Jan 17

Best Fifa Football Awards –

Men’s Player – Robert Lewandowski

Women’s Player – Alexei Putellas

Men’s Coach – Thomas Tuchel

Women’s Coach – Emma Hayes

Special Award for men’s football – Cristiano Ronaldo

Special Award for women’s football – Christine Sinclair

Jan 18

Fulham become the first English side in 88 years to score six or more goals in three consecutive games, a feat last achieved by Chester in the 1933-34 season

Ghana knocked out of Africa Cup of Nations by Comoros

Jan 20

Australian Open second round – Danka Kovinic (Montenegro) bt Emma Raducanu

Carabao Cup semi-final – Liverpool bt Arsenal

Africa Cup of Nations group tables –

Group A – Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ethiopia

Group B – Senegal, Guinea, Malawi, Zimbabwe

Group C – Morocco, Gabon, Comoros, Ghana

Group D – Nigeria, Egypt, Sudan, Guinea-Bissau

Group E – Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Algeria

Group F – Mali, Gambia, Tunisia, Mauritania

Jan 22

Australian Open third round – Felix Auger-Aliassime bt Dan Evans

Drone interrupts Brentford v Wolves match

Dave Ryding wins Britain's first alpine skiing World Cup gold medal with victory in the Kitzbuhel Slalom

Pegasus World Cup – Life Is Good

Jan 23

World Indoor Bowls Championship. Men’s – Les Gillett. Women’s – Katherine Rednall

Jan 26

Roy Hodgson replaces Claudio Ranieri as manager of Watford

Longines World’s Best Racehorse – Knicks Go

Jan 27

Women’s semi-finals – Ashleigh Barty bt Madison Keys, Danielle Collins bt Iga Swiatek

Exeter Chiefs announce that the club will be dropping the Native American branding, and will now use imagery depicting the Iron Age tribe, the Dumnonii

Jan 28

Mixed doubles final – Ivan Dodig and Kristina Mladenovic bt Jason Kubler and Jaimee Fourlis

Men’s semi-finals – Daniil Medvedev bt Stefanos Tsitsipas, Rafael Nadal bt Matteo Berrettini

Big Bash League final – Perth Scorchers bt Sydney Sixers

Jan 29

Women’s final – Ashleigh Barty bt Danielle Collins. First Australian winner since Christine O’Neil in 1978

Men’s doubles final – Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kottinakis bt Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell

Des Drummond dies

Jan 30

Women’s doubles final – Barbora Krejcíkova and Katerina Siniakova bt Anna Danilina and Beatriz Haddad Maia

Men’s final – Rafael Nadal bt Daniil Medvedev. Second Australian Open title and 21st major singles title overall

Women’s Ashes Test (Canberra) Australia 337-9 and 216-7 England 297 (Heather Knight 168) and 245-9. Match Drawn. Kate Cross survived the final over

AFC Championship – Cincinnati Bengals bt Kansas City Chiefs

NFC Championship – Los Angeles Rams bt San Francisco 49ers

Jason Holder takes four wickets in four balls in fifth T20 International. West Indies win series 3-2

BBL Cup final – Leicester Riders bt Manchester Giants

Dubai Desert Classic – Viktor Hovland

German Masters snooker final – Xintong Zhou bt Bingtao Yan

Jan 31

Cyclo-cross World Championships – Tom Pidcock

Transfer deadline day –

Dele Alli moves from Spurs to Everton

Dan Burn moves from Brighton to Newcastle

Julian Alvarez moves from River Plate to Man City

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joins Barcelona on a free transfer after leaving Arsenal

Aaron Ramsey joins Rangers on loan from Juventus until the end of the season

Brentford sign Christian Eriksen on a six-month deal

February

Feb 1

Tom Brady retires

David Goodwillie, who was found guilty of rape in 2016, moves from Clyde to Raith Rovers. Val McDermid withdraws her support and sponsorship of Raith

Feb 2

Steve Bruce replaces Valerin Ismael as manager of WBA

Curling mixed doubles tournament starts at Winter Olympics

Ashley Giles stands down as England cricket managing director. Chris Silverwood leaves as England head coach

Africa Cup of Nations semi-final – Senegal bt Burkina Faso

Feb 3

Frank Lampard appointed as manager of Everton

Washington NFL team change name to Washington Commanders

Africa Cup of Nations semi-final – Egypt bt Cameroon

Feb 4

Winter Olympics opening ceremony held at Beijing National Stadium. Games opened by President Xi Jinping. In lieu of a cauldron, the Olympic torch was mounted in the centre of a large snowflake sculpture. GB flagbearers – Eve Muirhead and Dave Ryding. Directed by Zhang Yimou

FA Cup fourth round – Middlesbrough bt Man Utd

Feb 5

First gold medal – Therese Johaug (Norway) in women’s 15km skiathlon

Women’s normal hill ski jumping – Ursa Bogataj (Slovenia)

Six Nations captains – Tom Curry, Dan Biggar, Jonathan Sexton, Stuart Hogg, Antoine Dupont, Michele Lamaro

Six Nations coaches – Eddie Jones, Wayne Pivac, Andy Farrell, Gregor Townsend, Fabien Galthie, Kieran Crowley

Six Nations – Scotland bt England. Marcus Smith scores all 17 points for England

FA Cup third round – West Ham bt Kidderminster

U19 cricket world cup final (Antigua) – India bt England

Feb 6

Women’s snowboard slopestyle – Zoi Sadowski-Synnott. First gold for New Zealand. Included a 1080 spin

Men’s normal hill ski jumping – Ryoyu Kobayashi (Japan)

FA Cup third round – Boreham Wood bt Bournemouth

Six Nations – Gabin Villiere hat-trick for France against Italy

World Seniors Darts Championship final (Circus Tavern, Purfleet) – Robert Thornton bt Martin Adams

2020 African Cup of Nations final (Yaounde, Cameroon) – Senegal bt Egypt

Top scorer – Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon, 8 goals)

Best player – Sadio Mane (Senegal)

Feb 7

Men’s downhill – Beat Fuez (Switzerland). Silver – Johan Clarey (France), aged 41

Women’s giant slalom – Sara Hector (Sweden)

Women’s 1500m speed skating – Ireen Wust (Netherlands). Wust has won at least one gold medal in each of five consecutive Winter Olympic appearances

Footage emerges of West Ham footballer Kurt Zouma kicking and slapping his cat, filmed at his home by his brother

Feb 8

Men’s super-G – Matthias Mayer (Austria)

Curling mixed doubles – Italy. GB (Bruce Mouat and Jenn Dods) lose bronze medal game to Sweden

Women’s big air – Eileen Gu (China). 5^th Kirsty Muir

Women’s parallel giant slalom snowboarding – Ester Ledecka (Czech Republic)

Fifa Club World Cup semi-final – Palmeires bt Al Ahly (Egypt)

Australia retain Women’s Ashes

Feb 9

Women’s slalom – Petra Vlhova (Slovakia)

Women’s snowboard cross – Lindsey Jacobellis (USA). Charlotte Bankes eliminated in quarter-finals

Fifa Club World Cup semi-final – Chelsea bt Al Hilal (Saudi Arabia)

Feb 10

Men’s figure skating – Nathan Chen (USA)

Women’s halfpipe snowboarding – Chloe Kim (USA)

Brooklyn Nets trade James Harden to Philadelphia 76ers

Feb 11

Women’s super-G – Laura Gut-Behrami (Switzerland)

Men’s halfpipe snowboarding – Ayumu Hirono (Japan). 4^th Shaun White

Shaun White retires

Feb 12

Mixed team snowboard cross – Nick Baumgartner and Lindsey Jacobellis (USA)

Fifa Club World Cup final (Abu Dhabi) – Chelsea 2 (Romelu Lukaku, Kai Havertz) Palmeires 1 (Raphael Veiga)

Raheem Sterling hat-trick for Man City against Norwich

Feb 13

Men’s giant slalom – Marco Odermatt (Switzerland)

Players Championship snooker final – Neil Robertson bt Barry Hawkins

Super Bowl LVI – Los Angeles Rams 23 Cincinnati Bengals 20

Game played at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, the home stadium of the Rams

Halftime show headlined by Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar

MVP – Cooper Kupp

Super Bowl LVII is scheduled to be held at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona

NFL MVP – Aaron Rodgers (Green Bay Packers). Fourth win

Feb 14

Women’s monobob – Kaillie Humphries (USA)

Women’s World Championship snooker final – Mink Wongharuthai (Thailand) bt Wendy Jans (Belgium)

Feb 15

Women’s downhill – Corinne Suter (Switzerland)

Women’s big air snowboarding – Anna Gasser (Austria)

Feb 16

Men’s slalom – Clement Noel (France). 13^th Dave Ryding

Feb 17

Women’s figure skating – Anna Shcherbakova (ROC). 4^th Kamila Valieva

Women’s ice hockey final – Canada bt USA

Michael Masi removed from his role as Formula One Race Director and replaced by Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas

Feb 18

GB stripped of silver medal won in the 4x100m relay at 2020 Tokyo Olympics after team member CJ Ujah was found to have committed a doping violation

Feb 19

Men’s curling final – Sweden (skip – Niklas Edin) bt GB (skip – Bruce Mouat)

Bobsleigh two-woman – Germany. 17^th GB (Mica McNeill and Montell Douglas)

Montell Douglas becomes the first female Briton to compete at the Summer and Winter Olympics

Kell Brook bt Amir Khan in non-title fight

Feb 20

Women’s curling final – GB (skip – Eve Muirhead) bt Japan

Bobsleigh four-man – Germany. 6^th GB, piloted by Brad Hall

Men’s ice hockey final – Finland bt ROC. First ever ice hockey Olympic gold medal for Finland

Closing ceremony. GB flagbearer – Bruce Mouat

Final medal table – 1st Norway (16-8-13) 37 2nd Germany (12-10-5) 27 3rd China (9-4-2) 15 19th GB (1-1-0) 2

Norway’s total of 16 gold medals is an Olympic record. ROC won 32 medals

Feb 22

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy banned for 14 months

Alexander Zverev thrown out of the Mexican Open after "unsportsmanlike conduct" that saw him attack the umpire's chair

Feb 23

Liverpool 6 Leeds 0

Feb 25

Champions League final moved from St Petersburg to Paris

Russian GP cancelled

Feb 26

John Landy dies

Ben Youngs wins 115th cap for England, breaking Jason Leonard’s record

Feb 27

Carabao Cup final – Liverpool 0 Chelsea 0. Liverpool won 11-10 on penalties. All twenty outfield players scored, then Caoimhin Kelleher scored for Liverpool and Kepa Arrizabalaga missed for Chelsea

Feb 28

Jesse Marsch replaces Marco Bielsa as manager of Leeds Utd

March

Mar 1

FA Cup fifth round – Middlesbrough bt Spurs

Zach Johnson appointed as USA Ryder Cup captain for 2023

Mar 3

Rod Marsh dies

FA Cup fifth round – Everton bt Boreham Wood

Mar 4

Winter Paralympics open in Beijing. Six sports – Alpine skiing, Biathlon, Cross-country skiing, Para ice hockey, Snowboarding, Wheelchair curling. Mascot – Shuey Rhon Rhon, an anthropomorphic Chinese lantern. Emblem – “Flying High”. Russian and Belarusian athletes are prohibited from competing

Shane Warne dies

Mar 5

Women’s Visually Impaired downhill. Bronze – Millie Knight, and her guide Brett Wild

Ivan Toney hat-trick for Brentford against Norwich

Women’s League Cup (Continental Cup) final – Man City bt Chelsea

Haas sack Nikita Mazepin and end sponsorship deal with Russian chemicals company Uralkali

Mar 6

Men’s Visually Impaired Super-G – Neil Simpson, and his guide (and brother) Andrew Simpson

Women’s Visually Impaired Super-G. Silver – Menna Fitzpatrick, and her guide Gary Smith

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

Welsh Open snooker final – Joe Perry bt Judd Trump

UK Open darts final – Danny Noppert bt Michael Smith

Mar 7

Men’s Visually Impaired super combined. Bronze – Neil Simpson, and his guide Andrew Simpson

Women’s Visually Impaired super combined. Bronze – Menna Fitzpatrick, and her guide Gary Smith

Mar 8

Gordon Lee dies

Champions League – Bayern Munich 7 Red Bull Salzburg 1

Alex Lees makes debut for England against West Indies

Mar 9

Kevin Magnussen replaces Nikita Mazepin at Haas for 2022 F1 season

Mar 10

Roman Abramovic sanctioned. Chelsea banned from selling tickets and club merchandise

Mar 11

Para-snowboarding SB-LL2 banked slalom. Bronze – Ollie Mill

New MCC laws from 1 October – New batters will be on strike for the next ball even if the players in the middle cross while a catch is taken. Mankad dismissal is moved from the 'unfair play' section to be included alongside other run-outs

Mar 12

Six Nations – Charlie Ewels sent off after 82 seconds for England against Ireland

Christiano Ronaldo hat trick for Man Utd against Spurs

First Test (Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua) England 311 (David Bairstow 140) and 349-6 (Zak Crawley 121, Joe Root 109) West Indies 375 (Nkrumah Bonner 123) and 147-4. Match drawn

Mar 13

Final medal table – 1st China (18-20-23) 61 2nd Ukraine (11-10-8) 29 3rd Canada (8-8-11) 25 14^th GB (1-1-4) 6

Canadian cross-country skier Brian McKeever won his 16th Paralympic gold, equaling German alpine skier Gerd Schoenfelder as the most successful male Winter Paralympian

American Oksana Masters won seven medals - three golds and four silvers - across the Nordic skiing programme

Tom Brady makes retirement U-turn

Mar 14

Players Championship – Cameron Smith

Mar 15

Champion Hurdle – Honeysuckle (Rachael Blackmore), trained by Henry de Bromhead. 2^nd Epatante. 3^rd Zanahayr

Leicester Tigers fined £310,000 for salary cap overspend

Mar 16

Queen Mother Champion Chase – Energumene (Paul Townend)

Cross Country Chase – Delta Work. 2^nd Tiger Roll

Tiger Roll is retired

Matt Fisher and Saqib Mahmood make debuts for England against West Indies

Henrik Stenson appointed as Europe Ryder Cup captain for 2023

Mar 17

Stayer’s Hurdle – Flooring Porter

Ryanair Chase – Alluho

Matt Fisher takes the wicket of John Campbell with his second ball in test cricket

Mar 18

Gold Cup – A Plus Tard (Rachael Blackmore), trained by Henry de Bromhead. 2^nd Minella Indo. 3^rd Protektorat. Rachael Blackmore is first female to win the race

Leading jockey – Paul Townend (5)

Leading trainer – Willie Mullins (10), a new record for the Cheltenham festival

Prestbury Cup – Ireland 18 GB 10

Mar 19

Six Nations – France bt England

France win the Championship and the Grand Slam, both for the first time since 2010

Ireland win the Triple Crown

Italy bt Wales. Italy win in the Six Nations for the first time since their victory over Scotland in Edinburgh in 2015, ending a 36–match losing streak in the Championship

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

Leading try scorer – James Lowe, Damian Penaud, Gabin Villiere (3)

Leading points scorer – Marcus Smith (71)

Player of the Tournament – Antoine Dupont

LeBron James passes Karl Malone to become the NBA's second all-time leading scorer

Mar 20

Formula One teams –

Mercedes – Lewis Hamilton, George Russell

Ferrari – Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz

Red Bull – Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez

McLaren – Daniel Ricciardo, Lando Norris

Williams – Nicholas Latifi, Alexander Albon

Aston Martin – Sebastian Vettel, Lance Stroll

AlphaTauri – Pierre Gasly, Yuki Tsunoda

Alpine – Fernando Alonso, Esteban Ocon

Haas – Mick Schumacher, Kevin Magnussen

Alfa Romeo – Valtteri Bottas, Zhou Guanyu (China)

Bahrain GP – Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz, Lewis Hamilton. Zhou Guanyu finishes tenth in F1 debut. Nico Hulkenberg replaced Sebastian Vettel who had Covid

World Indoor Athletics Championships (Belgrade) –

Men’s 3000m. Bronze – Marc Scott

Women’s Long Jump. Bronze – Lorraine Ugen

Second Test (Barbados) England 507-9 (Root 153, Stokes 120) and 185-6 West Indies 411 (Brathwaite 160, Blackwood 102) and 135-5. Match drawn

BBL Trophy final – Cheshire Phoenix bt London Lions

WBBL Trophy final – London Lions bt Sevenoaks Suns

Mar 22

Alpine Ski World Cup –

Men’s overall – Marco Odermatt (Switzerland)

Men’s downhill – Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (Norway)

Women’s overall – Mikaela Shiffren (USA)

Women’s downhill – Sofia Goggia (Italy)

Men’s Ski Jumping World Cup – Ryoyu Kobayashi (Japan)

Women’s Ski Jumping World Cup –Marita Kramer (Austria)

World Figure Skating Championships. Men’s – Shoma Uno (Japan). Women’s – Kaori Sakamoto (Japan)

Mar 23

Ashleigh Barty retires

Mar 24

FIFA World Cup play-offs –

Wales bt Austria

North Macedonia bt Italy

Mar 25

Marc Guehi and Kyle Walker-Peters make debuts for England against Switzerland

Mar 26

IPL starts. New teams – Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans

Lincoln Handicap – Johan

Dubai World Cup – Country Grammar

Mar 27

Third Test (Grenada) England 204 and 120 (Kyle Mayers 5-18) West Indies 297 (Joshua DaSilva 100) and 28-0. West Indies won by 10 wickets. West Indies win series 1-0

Jack Leach and Saqib Mahmood put on 90 for the last wicket in England’s first innings. Not since 1885 have numbers 10 and 11 top scored in a men's Test

Maiden pole for Sergio Perez at Saudi Arabia GP

Mar 27

Saudi Arabia GP – Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz

WGC Match Play final – Scottie Schleffer bt Kevin Kisner

Scottie Schleffer becomes new world number one

Mar 29

Olly Watkins and Tyrick Mitchell make debuts for England against Ivory Coast

Mar 30

Women’s World Cup semi-final – Australia bt West Indies

Barcelona Women bt Real Madrid Women at Nou Camp. Record attendance of 91,553 for a women’s match

Mar 31

Women’s World Cup semi-final – England 293-8 (Danni Wyatt 129) South Africa 156 (Sophie Ecclestone 6-36)