England

The Rugby Football League (RFL) has confirmed details of a new structure for rugby league’s Super League, which currently features 13 English clubs and one French club, and the second-tier Championship competition in England.

Organisers of the World Cup of Pool have announced that the 2014 edition of the annual event will take place in the English city of Portsmouth.

English Premier League football club Arsenal has withdrawn support for its Fanshare scheme citing a lack of liquidity in the share market and a shortfall in funding.

English Premier League champion Manchester City has entered into a 10-year partnership with local institutions Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and Manchester City Council (MCC) designed to enhance the sporting and educational legacy in the city.

English Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur has received a major boost in its efforts to develop a new 58,000-seat stadium after being granted government approval for a compulsory purchase order (CPO) which will allow work to commence on the site.

Russell Wolff, executive vice-president and managing director of sports media company ESPN International, is the latest speaker to be revealed for the Leaders Sport Business Summit at Stamford Bridge in London on October 8-9.

Tour de France race director Christian Prudhomme has insisted that Yorkshire has “raised the bar” for future hosts of the cycling event’s Grand Départ after an estimated crowd of between four and five million people packed the roadsides in the UK county at the weekend.

England Rugby 2015, the organising body for the IRB Rugby World Cup 2015, has announced its testing programme in preparation for the national team rugby union tournament.

Construction company Carillion has been named as the preferred bidder by Liverpool for the contract to redevelop the English Premier League club’s main stand and increase Anfield’s capacity to 54,000.

Bath Rugby’s plans to temporarily increase the capacity of its Recreation Ground have been put on hold after the local council opted to defer a decision over the English Premiership rugby union club’s development proposals until a later date.

Roel De Vries, corporate vice-president and global head of marketing, communications and brand Strategy at car maker Nissan, has been named as the latest speaker to join the line-up for the Leaders Sport Business Summit.

Plans to launch a ‘Tour of Yorkshire’ on the back of the English county’s staging of this year’s Grand Départ of cycling showpiece the Tour de France have taken another step forward.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) competition have handed life bans from the sport to Lou Vincent after the former New Zealand batsman today admitted to match-fixing offences.

English Premier League chairman Anthony Fry is to stand down due to illness, after just over one year in the role.

England Netball has submitted a bid to the International Netball Federation (INF) for the city of Liverpool to host the sport’s 2019 World Cup.

David Goldstone, a major figure behind the delivery of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has been appointed as the new chief executive of the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC).