Twickenham news

Leaders of major English sports have told MPs that they are set to lose more than £700m between them over the next 12 months. Appearing ... More

Rugby Football Union (RFU) chief Bill Sweeney has said the sport wants to play a major part in getting the public back to normality, once ... More

Groundskeeping teams at English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and Premiership rugby side Northampton Saints are among the winners of this year's Institute of Groundsmanship ... More

Professional football clubs should introduce wide-ranging measures – such as introducing returnable beer cups – to eliminate single-use plastics from their stadiums. That is the ... More

Minority sports featured heavily among the winners of this year's Sports Business Awards. The Professional Darts Corporation won the Best Match (or Game) Day Experience ... More

Stadium for Bath, the partnership behind a new community-focused elite rugby stadium in the city, has appointed planning and engineering giant Arup to play a ... More

The first NFL game to be hosted at Tottenham Hotspurs’ new stadium will be the Seattle Seahawks against the Oakland Raiders on 14 October. A ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has named Manchester-based firm Mather and Co to design its new World Rugby Museum at the spiritual home of the ... More

The Rugby Football Union has put nearly £100m (US$134.18m, €113.80m) back into the sport this year – an increase of 11 per cent on 2016. ... More

English Premier League football club Crystal Palace has announced ambitious plans to redevelop its Selhurst Park stadium. Club chairman Steve Parish unveiled the project at ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has appointed Steve Brown as its new CEO, with the move concluding an “extensive selection process”, led by a board ... More

Mark Evans, Harlequins’ CEO when it rebuilt its Twickenham Stoop stadium, has been appointed as the project leader for the Stadium for Cornwall project. Construction ... More

Major League Baseball (MLB) and BaseballSoftballUK will host a Fourth of July festival in London’s Hyde Park in an attempt to boost local interest in ... More

London mayor Sadiq Khan has plans to make London the “sporting capital of the world”, highlighting an ambition to build more “world-class” sports venues and ... More

Twickenham’s World Rugby Museum will be “upgraded” and “modernised”, and is due to reopen during the winter of 2017/18. The current museum – situated in ... More

Premier League football club Chelsea has seen its application to build a new £500m (US$614.6m, €585.3m) stadium approved by the local council. The London Borough ... More

Attendances for Premiership Rugby games have surged 10 per cent year-on-year, with almost 1m fans attending so far this season. Approximately 995,976 fans spectators have ... More

Redevelopment works are set to take place on Twickenham’s East Stand after a proposal was giving the green light by the local authority. Richmond Council ... More

A new national stadium accommodating football and rugby is expected to be built and ready in Luxembourg by October 2019. The mayor of the eponymous ... More

The cream of the health and fitness industry gathered in Telford last night (29 June), as 16 awards and three special accolades were handed out ... More

Twickenham – the home of English rugby – is embarking on a redevelopment plan which will see the transformation of its east stand. The work ... More

Outdoor fitness specialist British Military Fitness has launched a new Level 4 qualification in Strength and Conditioning aimed at exercise professionals looking to take their ... More

Twickenham Stadium will enforce strict security measures for the upcoming Six Nations matches in light of the terrorist attacks in Paris last November. Additional security ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is bidding to increase female participation in the game by offering clubs funds to market women’s matches taking place on ... More

The National Football League (NFL) is attempting to increase its reach by live-streaming all three of its London-based games, with Apple and Google in-line to ... More