The University of Essex and Birmingham City University have joined eight existing universities, which are partnered with England Football Learning, to offer support for women’s and girls’ football coaches at specialist Women’s High Performance Football Centres [WHPFC] across the country. The centres provide an educational and community-based hub to recruit, develop and deploy coaches and
England Roses Netball Captain Natalie Metcalf Re-Signs for 2022 Superleague Champions Manchester Thunder England Roses captain, Natalie Metcalf has put pen to paper to re-sign for Manchester Thunder after starring in an incredible championship winning season on her return to the black and yellows. Metcalf is the final player to be announced as part of
Australia’s Commonwealth Games gold medallists Tahlia McGrath and Beth Mooney are shortlisted following their triumph in Birmingham alongside India’s Jemimah Rodrigues. Multi-format heroics are honoured in the men’s shortlist, where all-rounders Sikandar Raza, Mitchell Santner and Ben Stokes are in contention for the award. More about the ICC Player of the Month awards is available here
As the stars of women’s football prepare to be unleashed once more to domestic audiences, the Barclays Women’s Super League is marking the start of the 2022/23 season with a new promotional campaign which shows the league is an unstoppable force to be reckoned with. The hero film aired for the first time at the
Second year of The Hundred sees even more families watching live cricket as attendance tops 500,000 The Hundred continues to take cricket to new audiences with more women (28%), children (22%), and families (41%) attending than in the first year 2022 once again set a new global record for total attendance at a women’s cricket
The Football Association has confirmed that Sky Sports and the BBC have made their broadcast selections for rounds four, five and six of the 2022/23 Barclays Women’s Super League season with seven matches, including a London derby, selected. Manchester United will welcome Brighton & Hove Albion at Leigh Sports Village in the first live broadcast
‘Il Capo’ faces ‘CasKILLA’ in historic women’s fight on November 5 Chantelle Cameron and Jessica McCaskill will clash for the undisputed Super-Lightweight World Title on the undercard of Dmitry Bivol vs. Gilberto Zurdo Ramirez at the at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on Saturday November 5, live to subscribers worldwide on
Kendra Cocksedge, the most capped Black Fern of all time, has announced today that she will retire from all rugby after Rugby World Cup 2021. Cocksedge has had an unpresented career in the black jersey, debuting in 2007 and going on to play a record 64 matches and scoring a record 382 points. In 2019
● Following the recent seismic shift in momentum around women’s football, Sports Direct will donate footballs to grassroots clubs across the country as part of their Equal Play initiative, helping facilitate the growth of the women’s game in light of recent calls for more opportunities for girls ● The pledge was officially launched with the
England Women’s Summer Nations Series matches against USA and Wales will be shown on ITV. Both matches will be broadcast on ITV4 and ITV Hub. Match coverage details as follows: England v USA on Saturday 3 September. Coverage starts at 2.30pm on ITV4 with kick-off at 3pm, played at Sandy Park, Exeter. England v Wales
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