Please find below stats from Opta ahead of the opening weekend of the Barclays FA Women’s Super League season and the fixtures for both the WSL and Women’s Championship. Manchester City v Manchester United Manchester United manager Casey Stoney faced Manchester City five times as a player in the Women’s Super League, only managing one
Manchester Thunder’s Eleanor Cardwell will be back in black and yellow for the 2020 season as the England Rose re-signs for the Superleague Champions. The 24-year old shooter, who was key to securing the victory in the 2019 Grand Final against Wasps when she came on in the final minutes, rejoined Thunder last year and
Mid-court dynamo Mia Ritchie says she is proud to remain a ‘one-club woman’ after becoming the third player to recommit to Team Bath Netball for the 2020 Vitality Superleague season. It is an 11th successive season in Blue & Gold for Ritchie, who first wore the famous colours while combining netball and study at the
England Women will play three tests this autumn, including two Quilter Internationals on home soil. The Red Roses face France at the Stade Marcel Michelin in Clermont-Ferrand on Saturday 9 November, KO 2.10pm local time [1.10pm UK time], live on Sky Sports Mix, Action and Main Event. In the first of England’s two Quilter Internationals,
The Football Association [The FA] has today announced that the Barclays FA Women’s Super League [WSL] will be broadcast overseas for the first time in its history. Starting from the 2019/20 season, a new three-year media rights deal with Sky Mexico and Scandinavian broadcaster NENT will see the Barclays FA WSL screened to viewers across
A major new campaign has been launched to support the 15 million people who live with one or more long-term health conditions in England. We Are Undefeatable aims to help those with conditions such as diabetes, cancer, arthritis and Parkinson’s to build physical activity into their lives. The campaign is led by a collaboration of
The Rugby Football Union (‘RFU’) has been awarded a grant to become the 34th project within the Families Fund portfolio (‘the fund’), and the only National Governing Body working in this fund. Launched in 2017, the £40M fund is aimed at getting families in lower socio economic communities exercising together. The RFU will launch 12
Nine-time Paralympic gold-medallist Sophie Pascoe is among a world-class New Zealand squad training at the University of Bath ahead of the 2019 World Para-Swimming Championships in London. Rio 2016 Paralympians Tupou Neiufi, Hamish McLean and Jesse Reynolds are also joined by Chris Arbuthnott and Celyn Edwards in a six-strong squad who are finalising their preparations
Eleven venues have been identified to host standalone Women’s Competition matches in The Hundred, a new 100-ball competition which starts in July 2020. Beth Barrett-Wild, Head of the Women’s Competition – The Hundred, said: “We’re delighted to be able to take the Women’s Competition to a number of excellent venues around the country. “The venues
In May 2020 The Girls who Dare will be rowing unaided 4,000 kms from California to Hawaii. The current World Record for a women’s open 4 is 50 days, 19 hours, 14 minutes, which they hope to break. They will set off from Monterey in California to row 2,400 miles across the Pacific Ocean to
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