Sport and Leisure/Sport 2021

January

Jan 1

European Capital of Sport – Lisbon

PDC quarter-final – Dave Chisnall bt Michael van Gerwen

Jan 2

Mauricio Pochettino replaces Thomas Tuchel as manager of Paris St Germain

WBC interim lightweight title – Ryan Garcia bt Luke Campbell

Jan 3

PDC final – Gerwyn Price bt Gary Anderson. First Welshman ever to win the tournament

Jan 5

Colin Bell dies

Carabao cup semi-final – Spurs bt Brentford

Jan 6

European Tour golfer of the year – Lee Westwood

Carabao cup semi-final – Man City bt Man Utd

New Zealand’s Test cricket team achieve number one ranking status for the first time in their history

Four Hills Tournament – Kamil Stoch

Jan 8

FA Cup third round – Liverpool bt Aston Villa youth team

Jan 9

Welsh Grand National – Secret Reprieve

FA Cup third round – Blackpool bt WBA, Chorley bt Derby youth team

Jan 10

Masters Snooker starts in Milton Keynes. Gary Wilson and Joe Perry replace Judd Trump and Jack Lisowski

FA Cup third round – Crawley bt Leeds, Vinicius hat-trick for Spurs against Marine

Tournament of Champions – Harris English

Jan 12

Sheffield Utd gain first win in 18th Premier League match, against Newcastle

Jan 15

Quarter-final – John Higgins bt Ronnie O’Sullivan. Five consecutive centuries in the match. First time this has happened since Neil Robertson v Steven Maguire in 2009

Dakar Rally (Saudi Arabia) –

Cars – Stephane Peterhansel, driving a MINI. 14th win

Bike – Kevin Benavides (Argentina), riding a Honda

Jan 13

Houston Rockets trade James Harden to Brooklyn Nets. Harden is the top scorer in the NBA for the past three seasons

Jan 17

Masters snooker final – Yan Bingtao bt John Higgins

First Test (Galle) Sri Lanka 135 (Dom Bess 5-30) and 359 (Lahiru Thirimanne 111, Jack Leach 5-122) England 421 (Joe Root 228) and 76-3. England won by 7 wickets

Dan Lawrence makes 73 on England debut

Jan 18

Phil Neville to manage Inter Miami

Jan 19

India score 329-7 in fourth innings to beat Australia. First defeat for Australia at The Gabba since 1988. India win series 2-1

Jan 20

Copa Del Rey last-32 – third division outfit Alcoyano beat Real Madrid 2-1

Jan 21

Burnley end Liverpool's 68-game unbeaten run at home in the Premier League

Jan 22

FA Cup fourth round – Wolves bt Chorley

Hank Aaron dies

Jan 23

FA Cup fourth round – Southampton bt Arsenal

Dustin Poirier beats Conor McGregor at UFC 257 in Abu Dhabi

Pegasus World Cup – Knicks Go

Jan 24

Abu Dhabi Championship – Tyrell Hatton

FA Cup fourth round – Tammy Abraham hat-trick for Chelsea against Luton

NFC Championship – Tampa Bay Buccaneers bt Green Bay Packers

AFC Championship – Kansas City Chiefs bt Buffalo Bills

World Indoor Bowls Championship. Men’s – Mark Dawes. Women’s – Laura Daniels

BBL Cup final – Newcastle Eagles bt London Lions

Jan 25

Second Test – Sri Lanka 381 (Angelo Mathews 110, Jimmy Anderson 6-40) and 126 England 344 (Joe Root 186, Lasith Embuldenya 7-137) and 164-4. England won by 6 wickets

Thomas Tuchel replaces Frank Lampard as manager of Chelsea

Jan 26

Longines World’s Best Racehorse – Ghaiyyath

Jan 29

Said Benrahma moves from Brentford to West Ham

Jan 30

Copa Libertadores final – Palmeiras bt Santos

Jan 31

Dubai Desert Classic – Paul Casey

German Masters snooker final – Judd Trump bt Jack Lisowski

February

Feb 2

Man Utd 9 Southampton 0. Alex Jankewitz sent off after 82 seconds of Southampton debut

Feb 5

Leon Spinks dies

Feb 6

Six Nations captains – Owen Farrell, Alan Wyn Jones, Jonathan Sexton, Stuart Hogg, Charles Ollivon, Luca Bigi

Six Nations coaches – Eddie Jones, Wayne Pivac, Andy Farrell, Gregor Townsend, Fabien Galthie, Franco Smith

England 6 Scotland 11. Only try scored by Duhan van der Merwe. Scotland’s first win at Twickenham since 1983

Mark Wright makes debut for Crawley Town

Big Bash final – Sydney Sixers bt Perth Scorchers

Alex Hales (Sydney Sixers) was leading run scorer in the tournament

Feb 7

Winning try for Wales against Ireland scored by Louis Rees-Zammit

Super Bowl LV – Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31 Kansas City Chiefs 9

Tampa Bay become the first team to win the Super Bowl in their home stadium

MVP – Tom Brady

Sarah Thomas became the first female Super Bowl official

Half time show – The Weeknd

Super Bowl LVI is scheduled to be held at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California

NFL MVP – Aaron Rodgers (Green Bay Packers)

Fifa Club World Cup semi-final – Tigres (Mexico) bt Palmeiras (Brazil)

Dan Evans wins Murray River Open, his first ATP Tour title

ATP Cup final (Melbourne) – Russia bt Italy

Feb 8

Tony Collins, the Football League's first black manager, dies. Manager of Rochdale

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

Alpine Ski World Championships start in Cortina

Feb 9

First Test (Chennai) England 578 (Joe Root 218) and 178 (Ravi Ashwin 6-61) India 337 and 192. England won by 227 runs. Joe Root’s 100th Test match

Feb 10

Former Wales goalkeeper Dai Davies dies

FA Cup fifth round – Everton 5 Spurs 4

Man City win record 15th consecutive game in all competitions

Feb 11

Men’s Super-G – Vincent Kreichmayr

Women’s Super G – Lara Gut-Behrami

Fifa Club World Cup third place play-off – Al Ahly bt Palmeiras

Fifa Club World Cup final (Qatar) – Bayern Munich 1 (Benjamin Pavard) Tigres 0

Cross World Championships start in Sweden

Women’s snowboard cross – Charlotte Bankes

Feb 12

Nick Kyrgios wins set against Dominic Thiem at Australian Open with underarm serve

WBBL Cup final – Leicester Riders bt Sevenoaks Suns

Feb 13

Australian Open third round – Rafael Nadal bt Cameron Norrie

Women’s downhill – Corinne Suter

Feb 14

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang hat-trick for Arsenal against Leeds

Doug Mountjoy dies

Men’s downhill – Vincent Kreichmayr

Feb 16

Second Test (Chennai) India 329 (Rohit Sharma 161) and 286 (Ravi Ashwin 106) England 134 (Ravi Ashwin 5-43) and 164 (Axar Patel 5-60). India won by 317 runs

Feb 17

Elliot Giles claims British record with second-fastest indoor 800m in history

Feb 18

Australian Open semi-finals – Naomi Osaka bt Serena Williams, Jennifer Brady bt Karolina Muchova

Australian Open semi-final – Novak Djokovic bt Aslan Karatsev

Women’s giant slalom – Lara Gut-Behrami

Feb 19

Australian Open semi-final – Daniil Medvedev bt Stefanos Tsitsipas

Australian Open women’s doubles final – Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka bt Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova

Australian Open men’s doubles semi-final – Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury bt Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares

Men’s giant slalom – Mathieu Faivre

Feb 20

Australian Open women’s final – Naomi Osaka bt Jennifer Brady

Australian Open mixed doubles final – Raveej Ram and Barbora Krejcikova bt Matthew Ebden and Samantha Stosur

Women’s slalom – Katharina Liensberger

Feb 21

Australian Open men’s final – Novak Djokovic bt Daniil Medvedev. Ninth Australian Open title and 18th Grand Slam

Australian Open men’s doubles final – Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek bt Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury

Prada Cup final – Luna Rossa 7 Team Ineos 1

Prada Cup replaced the Louis Vuitton Cup this year. It is a sailing competition whose purpose is to determine the challenger for the America's Cup

Welsh Open snooker final (Newport) – Jordan Brown bt Ronnie O’Sullivan. Brown is from Northern Ireland, and ranked world number 81

Men’s slalom – Sebastian Foss-Solevag

Feb 24

Neil Lennon resigns as manager of Celtic

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships start in Oberstdorf

Feb 25

Third Test (Ahmedabad) England 112 (Zak Crawley 53, Axar Patel 6-38) and 81 (Axar Patel 5-32, Ravi Ashwin 4-48) India 145 (Rohit Sharma 66, Joe Root 5-8, Jack Leach 4-54) and 49-0. India won by 10 wickets

Match finished in two days and lasted 140.2 overs

Ravi Ashwin takes 400th Test wicket

Europe League Round of 32 – Slavia Prague bt Leicester

Women’s individual normal hill – Ema Klinec (Slovenia)

Feb 27

Wales 40 England 24. Wales win Triple Crown

George North wins 100th cap for Wales

Men’s individual normal hill – Piotr Zyla (Poland)

Feb 28

Glenn Roeder dies

Scottish League Cup final – St Johnstone bt Livingston

Players Championship final – John Higgins bt Ronnie O’Sullivan

WGC-Workday Championship – Collin Morikawa

March

Mar 1

Racehorse trainer Gordon Elliott banned after a photo was shared on social media of him straddling a dead horse

Mar 2

Ian St John dies

Stephen Hendry loses comeback match against Matthew Selt in first round of Gibraltar Open

Women’s individual large hill – Maren Lundby (Norway)

Mar 3

Kieron Pollard hits six sixes in one over off Akila Dananjaya, who had earlier taken a hat-trick, in West Indies' Twenty20 defeat of Sri Lanka

Mar 5

European Indoor Athletics Championships start in Torun, Poland

Women’s 3000m – Amy-Eloise Markovc. Bronze – Verity Ockenden

Men’s individual large hill – Stefan Kraft (Austria)

Mar 6

Fourth Test (Ahmedabad) England 205 and 135 (Ravi Ashwin 5-47, Axar Patel 5-48) India 365 (Rishabh Pant 101, Washington Sundar 95). India won by an innings and 25 runs

India win series 3-1

Women’s 1500m. Silver – Holly Archer

Women’s 400m. Bronze – Jodie Williams

Women’s pole vault. Bronze – Holly Bradshaw

Saracens lose first match in Rugby Championship, to Cornish Pirates

Mar 7

Women’s 800m – Keely Hodgkinson

Men’s 800m. Bronze – Jamie Webb

Women’s 60m hurdles. Silver – Cindy Sember. Bronze – Tiffany Porter

Cindy Sember and Tiffany Porter are sisters (née Ofili)

Men’s 60m hurdles. Silver – Andrew Pozzi

Man Utd end Man City’s 21-game winning run

Rangers win Scottish Premiership after Celtic fail to beat Dundee Utd

Liverpool lose sixth straight home game, to Fulham

UK Open darts final – James Wade bt Luke Humphries

Mar 10

Hege Riise named as head coach of Team GB's women's football team at this summer's Tokyo Olympics

Mar 11

Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships start in Aspen

Mar 12

Halfpipe. Bronze – Zoe Atkin

Ex-British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman is found guilty of ordering banned testosterone in 2011

Mar 13

Maro Itoje scores winning try for England against France. Debut for Max Malins

Murray Walker dies, aged 97

Chris Wilder leaves as manager of Sheffield United

1919-20 EFL Trophy final – Salford bt Portsmouth. Competition sponsored by Papa Johns

Mar 14

Marvin Hagler dies

1920-21 EFL Trophy final – Sunderland bt Tranmere

Lamela scores rabona goal for Spurs against Arsenal

Women’s League Cup final – Chelsea 6 (Sam Kerr 3) Bristol City 0

Players Championship –Justin Thomas. 2^nd Lee Westwood

Mar 16

Champion Hurdle – Honeysuckle (Rachael Blackmore), trained by Henry de Bromhead. 2^nd Sharjah 3^rd Epatante. Blackmore is first female to win the race

Eoin Morgan wins 100th T20 cap for England

Mar 17

Champion Chase – Put The Kettle On (Aidan Coleman)

Cross Country Chase – Tiger Roll

America’s Cup – Team New Zealand bt Luna Rossa (Italy) 7-3

German motor racing driver Sabine Schmitz dies

Mar 18

Ryanair Chase – Allaho (Rachael Blackmore)

Europa League Round of 16 – Dinamo Zagreb bt Spurs, Slavia Prague bt Rangers

Mar 19

Gold Cup – Minella Indo (Jack Kennedy), trained by Henry de Bromhead, 2^nd A Plus Tard (Rachael Blackmore), 3^rd Al Boum Photo

Leading rider at Cheltenham Festival – Rachael Blackmore (6 wins)

Leading trainer at Cheltenham Festival – Willie Mullins

Ireland win Prestbury Cup 23-5

Mar 20

France 32 Wales 30. Winning try scored by Brice Dulin. Red card – Paul Willemse

Ireland bt England. Red card – Bundee Aki

Italy lose 31st successive rugby union match

India bt England 3-2 in T20 series. All matches played in Ahmedabad

Mar 21

Alpine Ski World Cup –

Men’s overall – Alexis Pinturault

Men’s downhill – Beat Fuez

Women’s overall – Petra Vlhova (Slovakia)

Women’s downhill – Sofia Goggia

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

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

BBL Trophy final – London Lions bt Plymouth Raiders

WBBL Trophy final – London Lions bt Nottingham Wildcats

Mar 22

Racing driver John Crichton-Stuart, the seventh Marquess of Bute. Better known a Johnny Dumfries

World Figure Skating Championships (Stockholm). Men’s – Nathan Chen. Women’s – Anna Shcherbakova (Russia)

Mar 23

Frank Worthington dies

Scottish Cup second round – Brora Rangers bt Hearts

Mar 24

Group stage of UEFA Under-21 Euro 2021 starts. Co-hosted by Hungary and Slovenia

Mar 25

James Ward-Prowse and Ollie Watkins score first goals for England, against San Marino

Mar 26

England successfully chase 337 to beat India in second ODI. Jonny Bairstow 124, Ben Stokes 99 including 10 sixes

Scotland bt France in final match of Six Nations. Winning try scored by Duhan van der Merwe. Finn Russell sent off

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

Leading try scorer – Duhan van der Merwe (5)

Leading points scorer – Johnny Sexton (65)

Player of the Tournament – Hamish Watson

Mar 27

Dillian Whyte bt Alexander Povetkin in heavyweight fight in Gibraltar

Luxembourg bt Ireland in Fifa World Cup qualifier

Dubai World Cup – Mystic Guide

Lincoln Handicap – Haqeeqy

Mar 28

Formula One teams –

Mercedes – Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas

Ferrari – Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz

Red Bull – Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez

McLaren – Daniel Ricciardo, Lando Norris

Williams – George Russell, Nicholas Latifi

Aston Martin – Sebastian Vettel, Lance Stroll

AlphaTauri – Pierre Gasly, Yuki Tsunoda (Japan)

Alpine – Fernando Alonso, Esteban Ocon

Haas – Mick Schumacher, Nikita Mazapin (Russia)

Alfa Romeo – Kimi Raikkonen, Antonio Giovinazzi

Bahrain GP – Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Valtteri Bottas

Tsunoda finished ninth in F1 debut

Third ODI – India 329 England 322-9 (Sam Curran 95)

India win series 2-1. All matches played in Pune

Tour Championship final – Neil Robertson bt Ronnie O’Sullivan

WGC Matchplay final – Billy Horschel bt Scottie Scheffler

Mar 31

Steven Davis breaks the British international caps record with 126th cap for Northern Ireland

England knocked out of Group stage of UEFA Under-21 Euro 2021. England beat Croatia, but lost to Switzerland and Portugal

April

Apr 3

Thomas Tuchel loses first match as Chelsea manager in fifteenth match, 5-2 to WBA

Richard Johnson retires. Champion National Hunt Jockey four times

Carl Frampton retires after losing to Jamel Herring in WBO world title fight

Apr 4

Cambridge win men’s and women’s boat races, held on Great Ouse near Ely. Sarah Winkless is first-ever female referee

Extreme E Desert X-Prix in Saudi Arabia won by RXR (Rosberg Team). Each race is two laps – one driven by the female and one by the male

ANA Inspiration – Patty Tavatanakit (Thailand). 2^nd Lydia Ko, who shot 62 in the final round

Apr 5

Irish Grand National – Freewheelin Dylan, at 150-1

Apr 6

World Snooker first qualifying round – Stephen Hendry bt Jimmy White

Apr 8

Betway Bowl – Clan des Obeaux

Justin Rose shoots 65 in first round of the Masters. Hole-in-one for Tommy Fleetwood

Apr 9

Topham Chase – Livelovelaugh

Apr 10

Grand National – Minella Times (Rachael Blackmore), trained by Henry de Bromhead. 2^nd Balko Des Flos (100-1) 3^rd Any Second Now

Rachael Blackmore becomes first ever female jockey to win the race

Rugby Union Champions Cup quarter-final – Leinster bt Exeter

Apr 11

Masters golf – Hideki Matsuyama 2^nd Will Zalatoris

Apr 13

Champions League quarter-final – PSG bt Bayern Munich, Chelsea bt Porto

Apr 14

Champions League quarter-final – Real Madrid bt Liverpool, Man City bt Borussia Dortmund

Apr 15

Wisden's leading cricketer in the world – Ben Stokes

Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year – Zak Crawley, Jason Holder, Mohammad Rizwan, Dom Sidley, Darren Stevens

Wisden's leading woman cricketer in the world – Beth Mooney

Monte Carlo Masters round of 16 – Dan Evans bt Novak Djokovic

Apr 16

John Dawes dies. Coached the 1977 British Lions

Monte Carlo final – Stefanos Tsitsipas bt Andrey Rublev. First ATP Tour title

Apr 17

FA Cup semi-final – Man City bt Chelsea

Sheffield Utd relegated with six games to play after defeat by Wolves

Apr 18

FA Cup semi-final – Leicester bt Southampton

Emilio Romagna GP (Imola) – Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Lando Norris

Ollie Pope scores 245 for Surrey against Leicestershire

Ollie Robinson takes 9-78 for Sussex against Glamorgan

Scottish Grand National – Mighty Thunder

Floriento Perez, the chairman of Real Madrid, announces the formation of the European Super League, including Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Inter Milan, Juventus, Milan, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, and Real Madrid

Apr 19

Jose Mourinho fired by Spurs

Apr 20

Plan for European Super League is dropped following universal opposition from fans, players and managers

Apr 22

Champion jump jockey – Harry Skelton

Champion jump trainer - ?

Apr 23

World Snooker Championship second round – Anthony McGill bt Ronnie O’Sullivan

Apr 24

Women’s Six Nations final – England bt France

Apr 25

Carabao Cup final – Man City 1 (Aymeric Laporte) Spurs 0

Chris Wood hat-trick for Burnley against Wolves

European Gymnastics Championships (Basle)

Women’s floor – Jessica Gadirova

Ravindra Jadeja hits 37 in an over for Chennai Super Kings in IPL

Apr 26

Fara Williams to retire. England’s most-capped footballer with 172 caps

Tamara Press dies

Apr 28

Europa League semi-final – Man Utd 6 Roma 2

Apr 29

NFL draft – first pick is Trevor Lawrence, for Jacksonville Jaguars

Championship Player of the Year – Emi Buendia (Norwich)

League One Player of the Year – Jonson Clarke-Harris (Peterborough)

League Two Player of the Year – Paul Mullin (Cambridge)

Apr 30

Kyren Wilson concedes 53 points from a snooker in World Championships

France v England women’s rugby union international ends early due to floodlight failure

May

May 1

2000 Guineas – Poetic Flare (Kevin Manning, aged 54), trained by Jim Bolger

Kentucky Derby – Medina Spirit

World Snooker semi-finals – Mark Selby bt Kyren Wilson, Sean Murphy bt Stuart Bingham

Rugby Union Champions Cup semi-final – Toulouse bt Bordeaux-Begles

May 2

Portuguese GP – Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Valtteri Bottas

Gareth Bale hat-trick for Spurs against Sheffield Utd

Women’s Champions League semi-final – Chelsea bt Bayern Munich

Man Utd's Premier League game against Liverpool is postponed after about 200 fans broke into Old Trafford to protest against the Glazer family's ownership of the club

Rugby Union Champions Cup semi-final – La Rochelle bt Leinster

1000 Guineas – Mother Earth (Frankie Dettori), trained by Aidan O’Brien

May 3

World Snooker final – Mark Selby bt Sean Murphy 18-15. Fourth world title

Highest break in tournament – Sean Murphy (144)

There were a record 108 century breaks, with an additional 106 made in qualifying

May 4

Jose Mourinho appointed as manager of Roma from the start of next season

Champions League semi-final – Man City bt PSG

May 5

Champions League semi-final – Chelsea bt Real Madrid

May 6

Europa League semi-finals – Man Utd bt Roma 8-5 on aggregate, Villareal bt Arsenal

Alun Wyn Jones to captain British and Irish Lions on tour of South Africa

May 7

Laureus World Sport Awards (Seville. Virtual ceremony) –

World Sportsman of the Year – Rafael Nadal

World Sportswoman of the Year – Naomi Osaka

World Team of the Year – Bayern Munich

World Breakthrough of the Year – Patrick Mahomes

World Comeback of the Year – Maxence Parrot (Canadian snowboarder)

Lifetime Achievement Award – Billie Jean King

May 8

Lewis Hamilton gains 100th career pole position

Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez bt Billy Joe Saunders in world title unification bout

May 9

Spanish GP – Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Valtteri Bottas

WSL – Chelsea

World Seniors Championship snooker final – David Lilley bt Jimmy White

May 11

Man City win Premier League after Man Utd are beaten by Leicester

PFA Scotland Premiership player of the year – James Tavernier (Rangers)

May 14

Ferran Torres hat-trick for Man City against Newcastle

FWA Footballer of the Year – Ruben Dias (Man City)

FWA Women’s Footballer of the Year – Fran Kirby (Chelsea)

PFA Player of the Year – Kevin De Bruyne (Man City)

PFA Young Player of the Year – Phil Foden (Man City)

PFA Women’s Player of the Year – Fran Kirby (Chelsea)

May 15

Scottish Premiership final table – 1^st Rangers (102 points) 2^nd Celtic (77 points)

Rangers were unbeaten, winning 32 matches and drawing 6 matches

Leading scorer – Odsonne Edouard (Celtic) 18 goals

Relegated – Hamilton

Scottish Premiership play-off – Dundee bt Kilmarnock

Scottish Championship – Hearts

Scottish League One – Partick Thistle

Scottish League Two – Queens Park

Highland League – Brora Rangers. Only played three matches due to Covid-19

Lowland League – Kelty Hearts. Only played 13 matches due to Covid-19

Scottish League Two play-off final – Kelty Hearts bt Brechin City

FA Cup final – Leicester 1 (Tielemans) Chelsea 0

British Masters – Russell Bland. First European Tour title at 478th attempt

Preakness Stakes – Rombauer

May 16

Alisson Becker scores winning goal for Liverpool against WBA. First goalkeeper to score a goal for Liverpool, and the first goalkeeper to score a matchwinner in a Premier League fixture

Women’s Champions League final – Barcelona bt Chelsea

European swimming and diving championships start in Budapest

BBL Playoffs final – Newcastle Eagles bt London Lions

WBBL Playoffs final – London Lions bt Newcastle Eagles

May 17

Joe Mercer dies. Won 2,810 flat races

May 21

Darren Stevens scores 190 (including 15 sixes) for Kent against Glamorgan

European Rugby Challenge Cup final – Montpelier bt Leicester

Serie A – Inter Milan

La Liga – Atletico Madrid

Bundesliga – Bayern Munich

Primeira Liga – Sporting Lisbon

Ligue 1 (Le Championnat) – Lille

Eredivisie – Ajax

May 22

Scottish Cup final – St Johnstone bt Hibernian

Josh Taylor becomes Britain's first undisputed world champion in the four-belt era by defeating Jose Ramirez in light-welterweight unification bout

European Rugby Champions Cup final (Twickenham) – Toulouse bt La Rochelle. Fifth title

2022 European Rugby Champions Cup final will be held in Marseille

European Player of the Year award – Antoine Dupont (Toulouse)

FA Vase final – Warrington Rylands bt Binfield

FA Trophy final – Hornchurch bt Hereford

May 23

Monaco GP – Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz, Lando Norris

Ron Hill dies. Hill did not miss a day of running between December 1964 and January 2017

Final Premier League table – Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea

Relegated – Fulham, West Brom, Sheffield Utd

Golden boot – Harry Kane (23)

Sergio Aguero scores twice in final match for Man City

Roy Hodgson (Crystal Palace), Nuno Espirito Santo (Wolves) and Sam Allerdyce (WBA) leave their managerial roles

US PGA (Kiawah Island) – Phil Mickelson 2^nd Brooks Koepka. Aged 50, oldest winner of a major, breaking the record of Julius Bores who won PGA in 1968 at the age of 48

May 24

Max Mosley dies

Barclays Manager of the Season – Pep Guardiola

League Managers' Association manager of the year – Pep Guardiola

May 26

Europa League final (Gdansk) Villareal 1 Man Utd 1. Villareal win 11-10 on penalties. David De Gea was the only player to miss a penalty

2022 Europa League final will be held in Seville

May 28

Premier League of Darts final – Johnny Clayton bt Jose De Souza

May 29

Championship play-off final – Brentford bt Swansea

Promoted – Norwich, Watford, Brentford

Relegated – Wycombe, Rotherham, Sheffield Wednesday

Leading scorer – Ivan Toney (Brentford) 33 goals

Champions League final (Dragon Stadium, Porto) Chelsea 1 (Kai Havertz) Man City 0

Man of the match – N’Golo Kante

2022 Champions League final will be held in Saint Petersburg

May 30

League One play-off final – Blackpool bt Lincoln

Promoted – Hull, Peterborough, Blackpool

Relegated – Rochdale, Northampton, Swindon, Bristol Rovers

Leading scorer – Jonson Clarke-Harris (Peterborough) 31 goals

Premier 15s women’s rugby union final – Harlequins bt Saracens

Indy 500 – Helio Castroneves

Giro d’Italia – Egan Bernal

May 31

League Two play-off final – Morecambe bt Newport

Promoted – Cheltenham, Cambridge, Bolton, Morecambe

Relegated – Southend, Grimsby

Leading scorer – Paul Mullin (Cambridge) 32 goals

Sergio Aguero to move to Barcelona

Naomi Osaka withdraws from French Open after refusing to speak to the media

June

Jun 1

Carlo Ancelotti replaces Zinedine Zidane as manager of Real Madrid

Jun 4

Brianna McNeal banned for five years for breaking anti-doping rules. Winner of the women’s 100m hurdles at the 2016 Olympic Games

Jun 5

French Open third round – Rafael Nadal bt Cameron Norrie

Floyd Mayweather bt YouTuber Logan Paul in boxing exhibition match

Epsom Derby – Adayer (Adam Kirby), trained by Charlie Appleby

Belmont Stakes – Essential Quality

Jun 6

The Oaks – Snowfall (Frankie Dettori), trained by Aidan O’Brien

Azerbaijan GP – Sergio Perez, Sebastian Vettel, Pierre Gasly

First Test (Lords) New Zealand 378 (Devon Conway 200) and 169-6 England 275 (Rory Burns 132, Tim Southee 6-43) and 170-3. Match drawn

Test debuts for Devon Conway (New Zealand) and James Bracey (England)

England played Euro2020 warmup matches against Austria and Romania at Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough

PFA Player of the Year – Kevin De Bruyne

PFA Young Player of the Year – Phil Foden

PFA Women’s Player of the Year – Fran Kirby (Chelsea)

PFA Women’s Young Player of the Year – Lauren Hemp (Man City)

Ollie Robinson is suspended from international cricket pending an investigation into historical racist and sexist tweets

US Women’s Open – Yuko Saso (Philippines)

Sifan Hassan breaks women’s 10,000m record

Memorial Tournament – Patrick Cantley. Jon Rahm led by 6 strokes after the third round but had to withdraw following a positive COVID test

Jun 9

Wolves appoint former Benfica boss Bruno Lage as their new manager

Jun 10

French Open semi-finals – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova bt Tamara Zidansek (Slovenia), Barbora Krejcikova bt Maria Sakkari (Greece)

All four players reached their first Grand Slam semi-final

Mixed doubles final – Joe Salisbury and Desirae Krawczyk (USA) bt Aslan Katetsev and Elina Vesnina

Joe Salisbury is first British player to win this title since John Lloyd in 1982

Jun 11

Uefa Euro2020 starts in Rome

Italy 3 Turkey 0. First goal in the competition is an own goal by Merih Demiral

French Open semi-finals – Novak Djokovic bt Rafael Nadal, Stefanos Tsitsipas bt Alexander Zverev

Jun 12

French Open women’s singles final – Barbora Krejcikova bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

French Open men's doubles final – Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut bt Alexander Bublik and Andre Golubev

Christian Eriksen collapses after suffering a cardiac arrest in Denmark’s match against Finland

Wales 1 (Kieffer Moore) Switzerland 1

Bristol finish top of Rugby Premiership. Worcester finish bottom but there is no relegation

Queen’s Birthday Honours –

MBE – Jordan Henderson, Raheem Sterling

Jun 13

French Open men’s singles final – Novak Djokovic bt Stefanos Tsitsipas. 19th Grand Slam title. First male player to win the double career Grand Slam in the Open Era

French Open women’s doubles final – Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova bt Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Iga Swiatek. Krejcikova becomes the first woman to win both the singles and doubles tournaments at a Grand Slam since Serena Williams in 2016 (Wimbledon), and the first to do so at the French Open since Mary Pierce in 2000

Second Test (Edgbaston) England 303 and 122 New Zealand 388 and 41-2. New Zealand won by eight wickets

New Zealand win series 1-0

Copa America starts in Brazil. Moved from Argentina due to Covid

Jun 14

Czech Republic 2 (Patrik Schick 2) Scotland 0. Schick scored from the halfway line

Jun 15

Queen’s Club Championships tennis tournament starts. Sponsored by Cinch

St James’s Palace Stakes – Poetic Flare

The Pro14 will rebrand as the United Rugby Championship when South Africa's four teams join the competition next season

Jun 16

Wales 2 (Aaron Ramsey, Connor Roberts) Turkey 0

Prince of Wales's Stakes – Love

Jun 17

Queen’s second round – Matteo Berrettini bt Andy Murray

Jun 18

England 0 Scotland 0

Richard Bland shares lead after second round of US Open

Gold Cup – Subjectivist (Joe Fanning), trained by Mark Johnston

Jun 19

Women’s Test (Bristol) England drew with India

Premiership semi-finals – Harlequins bt Bristol, Exeter bt Sale

Coronation Stakes – Alcohol Free

Jun 20

World’s Strongest Man – Tom Stoltman (Scotland)

Championship play-off final – Saracens bt Ealing Trailfinders 60-0 and 57-15 and are promoted to the Premiership

French GP – Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Sergio Perez

Queen’s final – Matteo Berrettini bt Cameron Norrie

Queen’s doubles final – Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut bt Reilly Opelka and John Peers

Birmingham Classic final – Ons Jabeur (Tunisaia) bt Daria Kasatkina

National League play-off final – Hartlepool bt Torquay

National League champions – Sutton United

Italy 1 Wales 0. Ethan Ampadu sent off

US Open (Torrey Pines, San Diego) Jon Rahm. 2^nd Louis Oosthuizen, 3^rd Harris English

Leading jockey at Ascot – Oisin Murphy

Leading trainer at Ascot – John Gosden

Jun 21

Laurel Hubbard will become the first transgender athlete to compete at an Olympics after being selected for the New Zealand women's team at Tokyo 2020

Rugby Players' Association awards –

Player’s player of the year – Sam Simmonds (Exeter)

England player of the year – Tom Curry (Sale)

Young player of the year – Marcus Smith (Harlequins)

England women player of the year – Poppy Cleall

Leading points scorer – Marcus Smith, 286 points

Leading try scorer – Sam Simmonds, 21 tries

Jun 22

England 1 (Raheem Sterling) Czech Republic 0

Croatia 3 Scotland 1 (Callum McGregor)

Jun 23

Ronaldo equals Ali Daei's record of 109 international goals

Group stage tables –

Group A – Italy, Wales, Switzerland, Turkey

Italy won all their matches. Turkey lost all their matches

Group B – Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Russia

Belgium won all their matches

Group C – Netherlands, Austria, Ukraine, North Macedonia

Netherlands won all their matches. North Macedonia lost all their matches

Group D – England, Croatia, Czech Republic, Scotland

Group E – Sweden, Spain, Slovakia, Poland

Group F – France, Germany, Portugal, Hungary

Jun 24

Brian London dies. Real name Brian Harper

Away goals rule scrapped in Uefa competitions including Champions League

Jun 25

Pakistan Super League final – Multan Sultans bt Peshawar Zalmi

Top 14 final – Toulouse bt La Rochelle

Jun 26

Round of 16 – Denmark 4 Wales 0. Harry Wilson sent off

Austria score against Italy, the first goal Italy have conceded in 1168 minutes

Premiership rugby final – Harlequins 40 Bristol 38. Winning try scored by Louis Lynagh

Tour de France starts in Brest. Julian Alaphilippe wins first stage. Major crash caused by a fan holding a cardboard sign wishing her grandparents well

La Course by Le Tour de France – Demi Vollering (Netherlands)

Eastbourne International – Jelena Ostapenko

Irish Derby – Hurricane Lane

Jun 27

Styrian GP – Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas

Netball Superleague Grand Final – Loughborough Lightning bt Team Bath

A-League soccer Grand Final – Melbourne City bt Sydney FC

BMW International Open – Viktor Hovland (Norway)

KPMG Women's PGA – Nelly Korda

Jun 28

Round of 16 – Spain 5 Croatia 3

Round of 16 – Switzerland 3 France 3. Switzerland won on penalties. Kylian Mbappe missed France’s last penalty

Jun 29

Round of 16 – England 2 (Raheem Sterling, Harry Kane) Germany 0

Jun 30

Rafa Benitez appointed as manager of Everton

July

Jul 1

Karsten Warholm breaks Kevin Young's 29-year-old 400m hurdles world record

Jul 2

Wimbledon third round – Denis Shapovalov bt Andy Murray

Jul 3

Wimbledon third round – Roger Federer bt Cameron Norrie

Quarter-final – England 4 (Harry Kane (2), Harry Maguire, Jordan Henderson) Ukraine 0. Match played in Rome

Jul 4

Austrian GP – Max Verstappen, Valtteri Bottas, Lando Norris

Patrick Vieira appointed as manager of Crystal Palace

Jul 5

Jimmy Anderson takes 7-19 for Lancashire against Kent, including his 1,000th first-class wicket

Wimbledon fourth round – Ajla Tomljanovic bt Emma Raducanu

Raducanu was World No 338 and became the youngest British woman to reach the last 16 in the open era, aged 18

Jul 6

Semi-final – Italy 1 Spain 1. Italy won on penalties

Jul 7

Semi-final – England 2 (Simon Kjaer o.g., Harry Kane) Denmark 1 (Mikkel Damsgaard)

Damsgaard scored the only goal from a direct free kick in the tournament

Both semi-finals were played at Wembley

Quarter-final – Hubert Hurcarz (Poland) bt Roger Federer

Stanley Cup – Tampa Bay Lightning bt Montreal Canadiens

Play-offs MVP – Andrei Vasilevskiy

Regular season MVP – Connor McDavid (Edmonton Oilers)

Jul 8

Wimbledon women’s semi-finals – Ashleigh Barty bt Angelique Kerber, Katarina Pliskova bt Aryna Sabalenka

Argentine golfer Angel Cabrera jailed for two years for a range of criminal offences

Jul 9

Wimbledon men’s semi-finals – Novak Djokovic bt Denis Shapovalov, Matteo Berrettini bt Hubert Hurcarz

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

Paul Mariner dies. Mariner played 35 times for England, scoring 13 goals

Jul 10

Wimbledon women’s final – Ashleigh Barty bt Katarina Pliskova

Wimbledon women’s doubles final – Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens bt Veronika Kudermetova and Elena Vesnina

Wimbledon men’s doubles final – Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic bt Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos

Copa America final – Argentina 1 (Angel Di Maria) Brazil 0. Match played at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro

UFC 264 – Conor McGregor breaks his leg and loses third fight against Dustin Poirier

English Greyhound Derby (Towcester) – Thorn Falcon

Jul 11

Wimbledon men’s final – Novak Djokovic bt Matteo Berettini. Sixth win and 20th grand slam title

Wimbledon mixed doubles final – Neal Skupski and Desirae Krawczyk bt Joe Salisbury and Harriet Dart

Uefa Euro 2020 final – Italy 1 (Leonardo Bonucci) England 1 (Luke Shaw). Italy won 3-2 on penalties

Harry Kane and Harry Maguire scored penalties. Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka missed

Match played at Wembley Stadium. Referee – Bjorn Kuipers (Netherlands)

Jul 13

Third ODI – Pakistan 331-9 (Babar Azam 158) England 332-7 (James Vince 102)

England win series 3-0

Jul 14

British and Irish Lions are beaten by South Africa A

State of Origin –New South Wales Blues bt Queensland Maroons

Jul 15

Andy Fordham dies. Known as ‘The Viking’

Jul 16

First T20 – Pakistan 232-6 England 201 (Liam Livingstone 103)

Liam Livingstone hit the fastest-ever 50 (17 balls) and 100 (42 balls) for England

Jul 17

Rugby League 1875 Cup final – Featherstone Rovers bt York City Knights

Rugby League Challenge Cup final – St Helens bt Castleford

Max Verstappen wins first sprint qualifying race and starts on pole for British GP

Jul 18

British GP – Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc, Valtteri Bottas

Verstappen involved in crash with Hamilton on first lap and hits barrier at 51G

The Open (Royal St George’s) Collin Morikawa. 2^nd Jordan Speith 3^rd Jon Rahm, Louis Oosthuizen

Scotland's Robert MacIntyre finished as the top British player in a tie for eighth place

2022 Open will be held at St Andrews

Tour de France – Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia, UAE-Team Emirates), 2^nd Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark), 3^rd Richard Carapaz

Points – Mark Cavendish

Mountains – Tadej Pogacar

Youth – Tadej Pogacar

Combativity – Franck Bonnamour

Team – Team Bahrain Victorious

Jul 20

NBA finals – Milwaukee Bucks bt Phoenix Suns

Finals MVP – Giannis Antetokounmpo

Regular season MVP – Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets)

Olympic motto changed to “Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together”

Jul 21

Tokyo Olympic Games starts with softball and women’s football matches

Brisbane awarded 2032 Olympic Games

The Hundred starts with Oval Invincibles Women beating Manchester Originals Women

Teams – Birmingham Phoenix, London Spirit, Manchester Originals, Northern Superchargers, Oval Invincibles, Southern Brave, Trent Rockets, Welsh Fire

Jul 22

World Squash Championships. Men – Ali Farag. Women – Nour El Sherbini, winning her fifth title

Jul 23

Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Games opened by Emperor Naruhito. Flame lit by Naomi Osaka. Each country in the Parade of Nations has two flag bearers – GB represented by Hannah Mills (sailing) and Mohamed Sbihi (rowing). 1,824 drones made a 3D rendition of the Tokyo Olympic Games logo over the stadium

Jul 24

First gold medal won by Yang Qian (China) in women’s 10m air rifle

Road race – Richard Carapaz

12-year-old Hend Zaha (Syria) loses in first round of table tennis

First Test – South Africa 17 British and Irish Lions 22

Lions only try scored by Luke Cowan-Dickie. All Tests played in Cape Town

King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes – Adayer. First horse in 20 years to win the Derby and the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes

Norway’s Handball Federation is fined after the women’s beach team wore shorts rather than bikini bottoms at the European Championship

Jul 25

Britain’s first Olympic medal – bronze won by Chelsie Giles in judo women’s -52kg

Jade Jones beaten in first round in taekwondo by Kimia Alizadeh of the Refugee Olympic Team

Women’s road race – Anna Kiesenhofer (Austria)

World Matchplay darts final – Peter Wright bt Dimitri Van den Bergh

Evian Championship golf – Minjee Lee (Australia)

Senior British Open golf – Stephen Dodd (Wales)

Jul 26

Men’s 100m butterfly – Adam Peaty

Synchronized 10m platform – Tom Daley and Matty Lee

Men’s BMX – Tom Pidcock

Men’s triathlon. Silver – Alex Yee. There was a false start as a boat blocked some of the athletes about to enter the water

Women’ welterweight taekwondo, Silver – Lauren Williams

Jul 27

Men’s 200m freestyle – Tom Dean. Silver – Duncan Scott

Women’s triathlon – Flora Duffy (Bermuda). Silver – Georgia Taylor-Brown

Bermuda becomes smallest nation ever to win an Olympic gold medal

Women’s tennis third round – Marketa Vondrouseva bt Naomi Osaka

Women’s heavyweight taekwondo. Bronze – Bianca Walkden

Team dressage. Bronze – GB

Women’s team gymnastics. Bronze – GB, including the Gadirova twins (Jennifer and Jessica)

Mike Hendrick dies. Played 30 Test matches for England

Goodwood Cup – Trueshan

Jul 28

Men’s 4x200m freestyle – GB

Individual dressage. Bronze – Charlotte Dujardin

Men’s quadruple sculls. Silver – GB

British team in men’s coxless fours lose steering of the boat in the final and finish fourth

Sussex Stakes – Alcohol Free

Jul 29

Men’s trap. Bronze – Matthew Coward-Holley

Women’s canoeing C-1. Silver – Mallory Franklin

Nassau Stakes – Lady Bowthorpe

Jul 30

Women’s football quarter-final – Australia 4 GB 3 (Ellen White 3)

Women’s BMX – Bethany Schriever

Men’s BMX. Silver – Kye White

Women’s trampolining. Bronze – Bryony Page

Men’s 200m medley. Silver – Duncan Scott

Men’s 200m backstroke. Bronze – Luke Greenback

Men’s eight. Bronze – GB

Men’s semi-finals – Alexander Zverev bt Novak Djokovic, Karen Khachanov bt Pablo Carreno Busta

South Africa director of rugby Rassie Erasmus records 62-minute video monologue raising a number of concerns over the officiating of referee Nic Berry in the Springboks’ defeat by the Lions in the first Test

Luke Campbell retires from boxing

Jul 31

Women’s tennis final – Belinda Bencic (Switzerland) bt Marketa Vondrousova

Men’s bronze match – Pablo Carreno Busta bt Novak Djokovic

Women’s sevens – New Zealand. GB finish fourth

Mixed triathlon – GB

Mixed medley relay – GB

Women’s RS:X windsurfing. Bronze – Emma Wilson

Women’s 100m – Elaine Thompson-Herah. Silver – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price

New Zealand transgender athlete Lauren Hubbard fails to lift a weight

Second Test – South Africa 27 Lions 9