England

Major League Baseball (MLB) has today (Tuesday) made its biggest inroad into the European market by sealing a two-year deal to play regular season games at London Stadium in the English capital.

Alejandro Agag, founder and chief executive of Formula E, has made a €600m ($724.8m) offer for full ownership of the electric car-racing series, as Birmingham revealed it is in advanced talks to bring a race to the streets of the English city.

North America’s Major League Baseball has reached an agreement to stage two regular-season games between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees at London Stadium in 2019, according to multiple reports.

Shahid Khan, owner of NFL American football team the Jacksonville Jaguars, has submitted an offer to purchase London’s Wembley Stadium from the English Football Association.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has revealed further efforts to position Twenty20 as the format to boost the sport’s global growth as the Champions Trophy was removed from the calendar and proposals to utilise London Stadium as a 2019 World Cup venue were cast aside.

Sports fans from across the world are set to be afforded the opportunity to own a piece of Lord’s, the ground regarded as the ‘Home of Cricket’, through a share sale process.

Mobile-focused ticket platform SeatGeek has today (Friday) agreed its latest major deal in the sports market by unveiling a partnership with English Premier League champion Manchester City.

English Premier League football clubs secured record profits and revenues for the 2016-17 campaign as the first season of the competition’s current broadcast cycle took hold.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has today (Thursday) unveiled a novel 100-ball format for its new limited overs competition as it seeks to differentiate it from the world’s established Twenty20 leagues.

The Glory kickboxing league will return to the UK for the first time in five years with an event in the English city of Birmingham this June.

Bristol Rugby has announced it will rebrand to Bristol Bears in an effort to attract investment and new audiences in a “challenging market” as it prepares to return to the Premiership, the top tier of English club rugby union.

English Premier League football clubs have today (Friday) voted against the full implementation of video assistant referees (VAR) next season in favour of more advanced testing taking place.

The UK government has turned down a proposal from English Premier League football club West Bromwich Albion to introduce safe standing at its Hawthorns home stadium.

World Rugby’s executive committee has appointed council members Steve Brown and Steve Tew to the Rugby World Cup Limited Board ahead of next year’s edition of the national team tournament in Japan.

English Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur has confirmed record revenue of £306.3m (€350.8m/$430.2m) for the 12 months through to June 30, 2017, up from £209.8m in the previous year.

Saracens chairman Nigel Wray has moved to dampen talk of a sale of the English Premiership rugby union club after securing full ownership of the London-based team.