England

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has appointed The Sports Consultancy agency to drive the commercial strategy for Yorkshire’s staging of the 2019 Road World Championships, while the town of Harrogate has been named as the main hub for the event in the English county.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has finalised the calendar for its 2017-18 Track Cycling World Cup, with the addition of a new event in Minsk taking the series to five rounds for the first time in nearly a decade.

IT software company IBM has outlined a series of artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives that will be introduced through its partnership with the All England Club for this year’s Wimbledon Championships.

The English city of Birmingham has today (Monday) detailed its vision for a low cost and low risk staging of the 2022 Commonwealth Games as it submitted its preliminary questionnaire response for bidding to the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

The English city of Liverpool has today (Friday) unveiled a “transformational” plan for the 2022 Commonwealth Games that includes an innovative aquatics facility, usage of Premier League football club Everton’s proposed new stadium and cricket and cycling to be staged in the nearby city of Manchester.

Football’s English Premier League is believed to have opened talks with clubs over the possibility of introducing regular Saturday evening matches from the 2019-2020 season.

Badminton England has appointed sports rights and marketing agency Sport Collective to support the development of a new commercial strategy.

English County Championship cricket club Surrey is set to invest £50m (€56.9m/$63.6m) in the redevelopment of the Oval as part of plans to make the stadium the largest cricket ground in the country.

All 20 English Premier League football club chairmen have voted to approve changes to ownership rules that will aim to make it more difficult for unscrupulous individuals to acquire clubs, according to UK broadcaster Sky News.

England Netball has appointed the Sport Collective agency to aid its strategic business plan and commercial operations as it seeks to capitalise on the continued expansion of the domestic Superleague and Liverpool’s staging of the 2019 World Cup national team tournament.

The ATP World Tour Finals, the season-ending tournament on the top men’s professional tennis tour, will remain in London until at least 2020 under a new two-year contract extension, with Japanese materials manufacturer Nitto replacing financial services group Barclays as the event’s title sponsor.

The future of Formula One’s British Grand Prix has again been placed in doubt after a senior Silverstone official admitted the circuit’s current contract with the motor-racing series is not financially sustainable.

Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke has this (Monday) morning insisted that his stake in the English Premier League football club is not for sale after fellow shareholder Ulisher Usmanov proposed a buy-out.

Fan engagement consultant Mark Bradley visits the SSE Women’s FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium in London.

Premiership Rugby has agreed a new four-year deal with sports and live entertainment company AEG and US broadcast rights-holder NBC Sports which will commence with Newcastle Falcons and Saracens playing a regular season game in Philadelphia on September 16.

Birmingham and Liverpool will face off for the right to become the UK’s candidate to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games after it was confirmed that fellow English cities London and Manchester will not make bids for the multi-sport showpiece.