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Belgian football team Club Brugge has appointed architects B2Ai and SCAU to develop designs for a new €100m stadium. The new stadium, to be located ... More

More than 100 sport and physical activity bodies have sent a letter to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, urging him to give the sector a ... More

Billionaire Mike Ashley's Frasers Group has acquired the fitness assets of DW Sports for £37m. DW Sports, which previously operated 75 sports retail stores and ... More

Older men who have played football regularly throughout their lives have cells up to 11 years younger than their physically inactive peers. The figure comes ... More

The COVID-19 pandemic is having “a profound effect” on community sports projects and organisations in the UK, according to a report published by The Sport ... More

ukactive has announced that Active Uprising and the National Summit are going digital as part of free events programme for 2020 The events will be ... More

Madrid city council (Ayuntamiento de Madrid) has set out plans to develop a number of sports facilities in the surrounding areas of the existing Wanda ... More

The sport and physical activity sector "hasn't done enough" to tackle persisting inequalities within the industry, according to a statement signed by more than 80 ... More

Plans have been revealed to redevelop the Van Donge & De Roo Stadium in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, into a mixed-use complex dominated by four towers ... More

The fitness industry in Europe is uniting today (30 May) to launch #beactivehour, a free one hour workout at 5.00pm CET/3.00pm GMT. The event has ... More

The historic San Siro football stadium in Milan could be demolished to make way for a brand new stadium, following a decision by Italian heritage ... More

Baroness Martha Lane-Fox, Sir Nicholas Serota and former BBC and ITV chief Lord Grade are among a new post-COVID-19 taskforce, aimed at getting the country’s ... More

A survey by Savanta ComRes, in partnership with Sport England, has studied the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on attitudes and behaviours towards physical activity. ... More

BMF with Bear Grylls will look to active people across the continent with #BeActive Hour, a European-wide initiative set for 30 May. In partnership with ... More

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

The UK government has begun stepping up its plans for the return of sport, according to culture secretary Oliver Dowden. Dowden revealed that the DCMS ... More

The UK government has launched a "major effort" to tackle loneliness and social isolation during the coronavirus outbreak. Led by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, the ... More

Warwickshire County Cricket Club has announced a new three-year official kit supplier partnership with PlayerLayer, which will see the development of a more sustainable kit, ... More

Chelsea Football Club has put its plans to build a new stadium on hold until "economic conditions improve". The English Premier League received planning permission ... 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

A number of UK leisure companies and operators have launched initiatives to help ease the pressures on local communities and the National Health Service (NHS), ... More

Football's European governing body UEFA has postponed its flagship national team competition, Euro 2020, by a year. The event was due to be played in ... More

The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is having a severe effect on leisure businesses around the world, as a number of countries have issued lockdowns, closed their ... More

The coronavirus is beginning to have real-term effects on the UK's leisure industry, as the outbreak is predicted to "get worse before it gets better". ... More

Action PR has launched Action Fitness Models, a modelling firm tailored to the fitness industry which represents models with genuine fitness ability. Action Fitness Models ... More