England

The English Football Association (FA) has today (Wednesday) unveiled reform plans for the women’s club game that will lead to the introduction of a fully professional top tier from the 2018-19 season.

Manchester’s Old Trafford stadium will continue to host the Grand Final of the Super League English rugby league competition until at least 2020, it has been announced today (Wednesday).

The English Rugby Football Union’s bid to cut the Six Nations Championship from a seven to a six-week schedule has been denied after France stood with the four other competing nations against the proposal at a board meeting earlier this week, according to multiple reports.

English Premier League football club Manchester United has announced record revenue and operating profit for the 12 months through to June 30, 2017.

Motor-racing series the World Endurance Championship (WEC) has adjusted its calendar for the 2018-19 season, which will now feature an event at Silverstone.

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has opted to take its official match-day hospitality in-house with the launch of a new venture, while the governing body for rugby union in England has also struck an eight-year extension to its partnership with online sports apparel and merchandise retailer Fanatics.

The English Premier League has today (Thursday) become the first major European football league to revamp rules governing the summer transfer window, with the deadline for incoming deals set to close before the start of the 2018-19 season.

The team behind London’s successful bid for the 2012 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games has said it is confident that its campaign was clean and that no underhand tactics were at play during the bidding process.

Birmingham has today (Thursday) been chosen ahead of Liverpool to be England’s bid city for the hosting rights to the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Steve Brown has been appointed as chief executive of the Rugby Football Union (RFU), the governing body for rugby union in England.

Mark McCafferty, the chief executive of Premiership Rugby, which operates the top division of rugby union in England, has suggested that the competition is not prepared to alter its schedule to give the British & Irish Lions more time to prepare for a tour of South Africa in 2021.

Jon Dutton has been appointed as chief executive of the 2021 Rugby League World Cup, which will take place in England.

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has awarded hosting rights for the 2018 edition of its Team World Cup to the English capital of London.

Edgbaston became the first English county cricket ground to host a day/night Test match last week when England played the West Indies. Ben Cronin spoke to Warwickshire County Cricket Club's chief executive Neil Snowball to find out if the new format had been of commercial benefit to the county.

The UIM, the global governing body for powerboat racing, has confirmed that it will stage a Grand Prix event in the English capital of London next year as part of its 2018 Formula 1 Powerboat racing (F1H20) World Championship.

The All England Lawn and Tennis Club (AELTC), organising body of Wimbledon, has secured a £175m (€195.8m/$228m) loan facility for the second phase of the redevelopment project at the grounds of the UK’s grand slam tennis tournament.