England

The English Football Association (FA) has moved to reassure its council members that selling Wembley Stadium could allow it to spend more than £1bn (€1.1bn/$1.3bn) on grassroots football as it considers an offer for the venue from US billionaire Shahid Khan.

The English Football Association (FA) has approved Premier League club Manchester United’s application to form a team in the second-tier Women’s Championship.

Birmingham City Council is considering implementing a levy on tickets for events in the West Midlands region, as well as introducing a hotel tax, as a means of raising funds to stage the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Everton chief executive Robert Elstone is quitting the English Premier League football club to become the new head of Super League, the body that organises England’s top rugby league competition.

The English city of Liverpool has been awarded hosting rights for the 2022 edition of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships.

Premiership Rugby, the body that operates rugby union’s top division in England, will launch a new knockout competition next season to replace the Anglo-Welsh Cup.

Major League Baseball (MLB) has today (Tuesday) made its biggest inroad into the European market by sealing a two-year deal to play regular season games at London Stadium in the English capital.

Alejandro Agag, founder and chief executive of Formula E, has made a €600m ($724.8m) offer for full ownership of the electric car-racing series, as Birmingham revealed it is in advanced talks to bring a race to the streets of the English city.

North America’s Major League Baseball has reached an agreement to stage two regular-season games between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees at London Stadium in 2019, according to multiple reports.

Shahid Khan, owner of NFL American football team the Jacksonville Jaguars, has submitted an offer to purchase London’s Wembley Stadium from the English Football Association.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has revealed further efforts to position Twenty20 as the format to boost the sport’s global growth as the Champions Trophy was removed from the calendar and proposals to utilise London Stadium as a 2019 World Cup venue were cast aside.

Sports fans from across the world are set to be afforded the opportunity to own a piece of Lord’s, the ground regarded as the ‘Home of Cricket’, through a share sale process.

Mobile-focused ticket platform SeatGeek has today (Friday) agreed its latest major deal in the sports market by unveiling a partnership with English Premier League champion Manchester City.

English Premier League football clubs secured record profits and revenues for the 2016-17 campaign as the first season of the competition’s current broadcast cycle took hold.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has today (Thursday) unveiled a novel 100-ball format for its new limited overs competition as it seeks to differentiate it from the world’s established Twenty20 leagues.

The Glory kickboxing league will return to the UK for the first time in five years with an event in the English city of Birmingham this June.