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
