A look at six of the best and worst of the new season’s strips gives us Pro Evo chic, throwbacks done right, and how – and how not – to use stripesThe Premier League season kicks off on Friday and league debutants such as Christos Tzolis and Victor Muñoz, along with masses of fans, will be pulling on their teams’ shiny new strips. There were some …

Detailed accounts highlight the growing financial might of the elite, and the challenges the rest of the division faceThe financial figures for 2024-25, the most recent season available, for the eight Women’s Super League clubs who published detailed accounts illustrate a growing gulf between the rich and the poor. The Guardian breaks down the key numbers. …

Newcastle, Arsenal, Brentford, Everton, Leeds, Coventry, Aston Villa, Hull and Ipswich have all brought in exciting playersBy Opta AnalystAnthony Gordon will be a difficult act to follow at Newcastle, but Touré could be a shrewd replacement. Blessed with electric pace, the 20-year-old is a bit more of an old-fashioned winger in that he predominantly plays …

Another left-back has been a priority all summer, but there seems to be no sign of one coming to Old TraffordAfter signing Aaron Wan-Bissaka in 2019, Manchester United’s PR machine boasted they had scouted 804 right-backs before landing on the Crystal Palace player. At the time it felt like an unnecessary brag, designed to convince fans and …

Max Verstappen has ended speculation over his future by committing to remain at Red Bull.

British motorbike racer Sam Naughton has died during qualifying for the Manx Grand Prix, becoming the second rider killed during the fatal session this week. 

St Helens have announced the appointment of Australia boss Kevin Walters as their head coach on a three-year deal from the start of the 2027 Super League season.

World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka has been knocked out of the Cincinnati Open after suffering a shock straight-sets defeat to Czech player Sara Bejlek.

We have a busy day’s racing on Thursday with flat action from Lingfield Park and Newcastle, live on Sky Sports Racing...

Work out the identity of today's player in as few attempts as possible.

Happy birthday to our weekly sports quiz, it will be exactly a year this Friday, 21 August since we relaunched it in 2025.

Will you beat the clock by getting all five of today's answers in five minutes?

Now that the Champions League money may be nigh, we will get to see the scale of Celtic's ambition, asks Tom English?

There is a long list of supplements taken by elite athletes in the pursuit of marginal gains - what do they take and why?

We ask 26 BBC Sport football pundits to predict who will win the 2026-27 Premier League title, and which clubs will finish in the top four.

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Formula 1's summer break is over and the 2026 season restarts in the Netherlands this weekend as the championship run-in looms over the final months of the campaign.

BBC Sport takes a look at some of the Premier League's greatest opening-day debuts, including Alan Shearer's Blackburn blinder and Michu's Swansea screamers.

Some of Serie A’s traditional great powers struggled domestically last term while league champions Inter fared poorly in Europe, with the fading giants facing a reckoning ahead of the new season

Carrick does not quite have a full-scale rebuild on his hands at United, but he is entitled to feel the sting of indignation about how he is being sent into a second season by his employers.