Sport

Sport brings together match reports, results and the stories shaping teams and athletes across football, tennis, athletics and beyond. It covers the moments that decide titles and seasons, from a striker settling into a new manager's side to a player carving out a piece of sporting history, alongside the off-field decisions and pressures that increasingly sit alongside the action itself.

This is where readers can follow the twists of ongoing competitions and the fortunes of major clubs and figures, as well as the wider debates around governance, money and politics that now shape how sport is run and watched. It matters because sport remains one of the few shared cultural touchstones, drawing in millions who follow it not just for the scores but for what it says about ambition, fairness and identity.

Expect a mix of the immediate, results, injuries, transfer news, and the reflective, profiles and analysis of the people and institutions steering the games we watch.

All change for Maresca: the data behind Manchester City’s rapid player turnover

September 12, 2026

Manchester City are experiencing an unprecedented level of player turnover under new coach Enzo Maresca, a stark contrast to the stability that defined the Pep Guardiola era. While this rebuilding has not yet cost them Premier League points, the data suggests underlying vulnerability, illustrated by a narrower-than-expected win over newly promoted Coventry, ahead of Sunday’s…
Football lends voice to message worth relaying: men should talk about their pain | Barney Ronay

September 12, 2026

Barney Ronay’s Guardian column praises the Premier League for backing the Together Against Suicide campaign, running from 4 to 14 September, which promotes the simple message that men should talk about their pain. He argues football has unmatched reach to deliver this message to middle-aged men, who are statistically more likely to die by suicide…
Garcia v Benn – welterweight world title fight predictions

September 12, 2026

Conor Benn will challenge Ryan Garcia for the WBC welterweight world title in Las Vegas, marking Benn’s first fight back at welterweight since April 2022 and the biggest moment of his 10-year professional career. A win would see the 29-year-old Briton emulate his father Nigel Benn by winning a WBC world title, while American Garcia,…
Signed instead of Rashford, Gordon is proving worth at Barca

September 12, 2026

Anthony Gordon has made an immediate impact at Barcelona after joining from Newcastle United in a £70m deal this summer, providing four assists in his first five appearances despite still awaiting his first goal for the club. The England winger, who became only the second English player to join Barcelona permanently after Gary Lineker in…
Calls mount to scrap state pension triple lock over costs

September 12, 2026

With the autumn budget approaching, pressure is mounting on the government to consider scrapping the state pension “triple lock”, as debate intensifies over whether the policy is still affordable. The British Chambers of Commerce has called for it to be axed, with savings redirected towards tackling youth unemployment, while the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)…
Flex your football brain with our daily quizzes

September 12, 2026

BBC Sport’s daily football quiz feature offers readers three separate challenges to test their knowledge of the game, set by BBC staff and a reader contributor. The quizzes are a regular, light-hearted feature rather than a news story, designed to engage football fans with varying formats and difficulty levels. The three quizzes are: a “guess…
New Man City signings desperate to win – Dias

September 12, 2026

Manchester City captain Ruben Dias says the club’s new signings are “desperate to win” and that the whole squad has bought into new manager Enzo Maresca’s approach, following a summer of major upheaval at the Etihad. The comments matter because City spent a Premier League record £458m rebuilding the squad while also parting ways with…
Hong Kong jails democracy activists as Green Party rocked by exodus, Chelsea cash nets £175m

September 12, 2026

Vigil organisers get up to seven years in a Tiananmen crackdown case; Green Party women quit citing misogyny while Gove offers Holyrood schools advice; frozen Abramovich Chelsea funds earn record interest, plus FBI, Meta and Hogwarts Legacy news.
Gary Oldman Says HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ TV Series Will Be “More Satisfying” Than The Movies

September 12, 2026

Gary Oldman, who played Sirius Black in the Harry Potter film series, has said HBO’s forthcoming Harry Potter television adaptation will feel “more satisfying” than the original films because it will follow the books far more closely. In a new interview, Oldman explained that the movies had to compress the source material heavily, sacrificing character…
Sydney Sweeney Faces Backlash for Sexualized Novig Ad: “Exactly Why Women in Sports Aren’t Taken Seriously”

September 12, 2026

Sydney Sweeney is facing renewed criticism, this time over an advert for sports trading app Novig, in which she appears mostly naked with sports balls and uniforms positioned over her body while repeating the word “sports.” The actress, who also joined Novig as a strategic partner and equity holder, has been accused by critics, including…