Wales

Cricket
Business

The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has taken another step towards embracing day-night cricket by announcing that a full round of floodlit County Championship fixtures will take place on June 26 next year.
Cricket
Business

Colin Graves, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), has said that discussions with players and club members will be crucial in honing plans to introduce a new domestic eight-team Twenty20 competition.

Snooker
Events

Snooker’s Players Championship will take place in Llandudno in North Wales in 2017.

Cricket
Events

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is considering plans to launch a second Twenty20 club competition that would rival the likes of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL), according to The Telegraph.
Business

The Welsh Government has today (Tuesday) said the country will not pursue initial plans to bid for the 2026 edition of the Commonwealth Games multi-sport event, citing “current financial uncertainty” as a result of the Brexit vote as the main reason behind the decision.

Football
Business

US businessmen Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan have formally completed their takeover of Premier League football club Swansea City.

Football

Premier League football club Swansea City has confirmed that it has been taken over by US businessmen Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan.

Motorsport
Stadia

Officials behind the Circuit of Wales, which is due to become the new home of the MotoGP motorcycling championship in the UK, have said they hope to have a new financing deal in place that would allow construction to proceed within six to eight weeks.

Cycling
Events

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has said that the Welsh political party will bid for the country to host the Commonwealth Games in 2026 or 2030 and stages from cycling’s Tour de France, if it is elected into power this year.
Stadia

The Circuit of Wales, which is due to become the new home of the MotoGP motorcycling championship in the UK, has cleared the final planning barrier before construction can begin.

Surfing
Stadia

Despite heavy investment into state-of-the-art wave gardens, surfing’s dreams of getting into The Greatest Show on Earth will depend on Mother Nature. Christian Radnedge reports.

Rugby Union
Finance & Law

The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) has reported record turnover of £64.2m (€88m/$98.6m) for the last financial year after including the figures of its new subsidiary Millennium Stadium Experience Limited in its annual report for the first time.

Motorsport
Business

Organisers of the World Rally Championship (WRC) have confirmed the British round of the motor racing series is set to remain on its calendar until at least 2018 after the event secured renewed financial backing from the Welsh government.

Rugby Union

The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) has appointed Martyn Phillips as its new chief executive.

Football
Events

European football’s governing body Uefa has awarded the 2017 Champions League final to the Welsh capital, Cardiff, while the Swedish municipality of Solna will host the 2016-17 finale of the Europa League.
Events

Wales’ First Minister Carwyn Jones has appeared to rule out the possibility of the country hosting a future edition of the Commonwealth Games, stating the multi-sport event would be too expensive to stage.

Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Sony Mobile division of the Japanese electronics giant has signed up Real Madrid football star Gareth Bale as an ambassador for its Xperia Z3 smartphone series.

Rugby Union

Roger Lewis is to leave his post as group chief executive of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) after this year’s edition of the Rugby World Cup national team tournament.