Timeline & Context Record‑Breaking Expenditure Major Transfer Moves Winners, Losers & Strategic Trends Broader Impacts In summary, the 2025 Premier League summer transfer window was historic: a record‑breaking spree of talent acquisition, highlighted by blockbuster deals, financial ambition, and strategic squad building—setting the tone for a fiercely competitive 2025/26 season.…
UK Athletics can confirm the Novuna Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB & NI) team selection for the World Athletics Championships, Tokyo, Japan (13-21 September) following the finalisation of the World Rankings positions. A team of 64 athletes will now travel to the Championships with 12 athletes achieving the required…
After a demanding season and eight races that have taken the world’s best athletes across some of the planet’s most stunning natural landscapes, everything is still to be decided in the men’s and women’s overall rankings of the 2025 Golden Trail World Series (GTWS). And what better stage to crown the…
UK Athletics has announced the Novuna Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB & NI) team for the World Athletics Championships, Tokyo, Japan (13-21 September) The performance aims when selecting the team were to maximise medal success and achieve a top eight placing. For the relay events, the goal is to…
UK Athletics can announce the U20, Classic Up-and-Down, and Uphill Mountain athletes who will complete the Novuna Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB & NI) squad for the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Spain in September. The 22 athletes selected today complete the team selections, following the announcement…
Toyota (GB) has reinforced its support for inclusive, grassroots sport by extending its Official Mobility Partner agreement with the charity Special Olympics Great Britain (GB) for a further two years. Prior to this national partnership, Toyota has had a longstanding relationship with the Special Olympics movement globally, serving as a…
UK Athletics can announce the Novuna Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB & NI) team for the World Para Athletics Championships in Delhi, India, between 26 September and 5 October. The athletes announced today will join those seven athletes selected earlier this year in June to make a full team of 37 for the…
Championship and stadium records tumbled, as fine performances from the likes of Zharnel Hughes (Glen Mills, Shaftesbury Barnet), Amy Hunt (Marco Airale, Charnwood) Molly Caudery (Scott Simpson, Thames Valley), Elise Thorner (Helen Clitheroe, Wells City) and Anna Purchase (Notts) headlined day one of Novuna UK Athletics Championships at the Alexander…
The Angling Trust is proud to announce the launch of the Best Practice Guide for Freshwater Angling – a comprehensive resource designed to promote responsible, sustainable, and safe angling across the UK. This free, downloadable guide provides anglers of all levels with clear, practical advice on how to care for fish, protect…
UK Athletics has today announced the Novuna Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GB & NI) team for the U20 European Championships in Tampere, taking place from 7–10 August. A squad of 59 athletes has been selected in line with the selection policy, with the aim of these Championships being to…
A new trail running adventure awaits on the island of Taiwan, as Xtrail Kenting by UTMB® makes its debut on the UTMB® World Series stage from March 6-8, 2026. Set in Kenting, Hengchun Township, the event will take runners deep into the spectacular landscapes of the Hengchun Peninsula, where tropical coastline meets lush…
Yesterday evening, Bo Guttormsdottir-Frost, Coen Gilbert and Evan McPhillipsled Team GB into the Closing Ceremony of the Skopje 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), marking the end of a six-day competition where Team GB returned 22 medals. Guttormsdottir-Frost and Gilbert carried the flag into the Jane Sandanski stadium in Skopje,…
We’re excited to announce that Tautvydas Sabonis has officially joined the London Lions as our new Head Coach ahead of the 2025/26 season. At just 33 years old, Sabonis brings elite experience, sharp tactical vision, and a passion for player development — having spent the last five years rising through the ranks at Žalgiris Kaunas,…
Orla White, Austyn Manley and Uzair Chowdhury have been named as Team GB’s flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony of the Skopje 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF). With the seven-day Festival spanning sixteen venues across North Macedonia and Croatia, the city of Skopje will host the Opening Ceremony this evening (Sunday 20…
The Government has today confirmed its support for bids to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships and the 2029 World Para Athletics Championships; setting out our ambition to see the sport’s pinnacle events return to the UK for the first time since the summer of 2017. A bid would aim…
Double Olympic cross-country mountain bike champion Tom Pidcock made a victorious return to the UCI Cross-Country Mountain Bike World Cup with a dominant ride through the field in his first XCO appearance of 2025 at Round 6 of the series in Pal Arinsal, Andorra. After recently finishing the Giro d’Italia grand tour…
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today announced the 54 athletes selected to represent Team GB at the Skopje 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF). Running from the 20th – 26th July, Team GB’s young athletes, all aged between 13 and 18, will compete in 10 of the 15 disciplines on…
The British Record (rod-caught) Fish Committee (BRFC) met on 23rd June 2025 at the Natural History Museum, London. Present were: Stephen Mardlin MBE (Chairman), Andy Nellist (Vice-Chairman), James Maclaine (Scientific Advisor, Natural History Museum), Nigel Hewlett (Freshwater Scientific Advisor), Paul Edwards (Wales Game Angling Representative), Oliver Crimmen (Marine Specialist), Paul…
The year’s Christie Cup is set to host six men’s teams, including Manchester Select, Ashton RUFC, Aldwinians RUFC and GB Police. Women’s teams confirmed to play currently consist of GB Police Women’s, Leigh Miners, and the Salford Reds Development team. Chairman of Manchester Select and event organiser Chris Bamber said:…
After making a strong impression in 2024, Team Adaptive returns in 2025 with a new ambition: to build bridges, both human and sporting, between athletes with disabilities and some of the most recognisable figures in global trail running. With this goal in mind, the very first mentoring programme pairing adaptive…
The Great Britain & Northern Ireland team signed off their European Athletics Team Championships campaign with a string of determined displays, standout points and a welcome return for some of the squad’s top names — securing 5th place overall in the First Division. On her senior international debut Sarah Tait (Linda…
Over 100,000 children from schools across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland took part in this year’s Olympic Day celebrations through a brand-new partnership between the Team GB Foundation and The Daily Mile Foundation. Held on the 23rd June each year, Olympic Day is an annual worldwide celebration of the Olympic Movement, aiming…
British Equestrian and the British Showjumping Selectors can today confirm the 10 jumping athlete and horse combinations that will be submitted to the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) as our nominated entries for the FEI Jumping European Championship 2025, set to take place in A Coruña, Spain from 16–20 July. Nominated entries, listed in…
The Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad for the European Athletics Team Championships has been announced today. The top division of these Championships will take place in Madrid, Spain, on June 26-29. A strong squad of 42 athletes representing GB & NI will go up against 15 other countries across four days…
UK Athletics can announce the first athletes to represent the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad for the World Para Athletics Championships in Delhi, India, between 26 September and 5 October. The first round of selection features seven Paris Paralympic gold and silver medallists. The performance objectives associated with this selection are for athletes to…
More than 100 of Britain’s most celebrated athletes have today written to the Prime Minister urging the UK Government to seize the golden opportunity to bring the World Athletics Championships back to London in 2029. In a powerful open letter published today, Olympic champions, global medallists and rising stars speak…
The “Guinness World Records 365: Sport” book is a hardback book that features a sporting record for every day of the year, including February 29th. It covers 150 years of sports achievements and features iconic figures like Muhammad Ali, Donald Bradman, Michael Jordan, and Simone Biles. The book is a compact, pocket-sized guide…
Athletic Ventures has today confirmed that this year’s London Athletics Meet, part of the Wanda Diamond League series, has officially sold out in record time, with every seat at London Stadium now filled for what promises to be one of the most electric atmospheres in global sport this summer. The…