Cefn Druids’ Europa League preliminary round qualification hopes are finely balanced after a late equaliser denied the Welsh Premier side of a crucial victory in their first leg tie against FK Trakai. Donatas Kazlauskas struck on 86-minutes for Trakai as the Lithuanian side left it late to secure a 1-1 draw. James Davies put Cefn […]

It is crunch time for many of Wales’ leading athletes this weekend with places in the British team for the European Championships on the line at the British Championships in Birmingham. For the steeplechase duo of Jon Hopkins and Ieuan Thomas it will be the chance to convert their brilliant year to date into another major championship outing.

Cardiff City have taken their spending past a reported £28m mark by signing Bobby Reid from Bristol City. The fee for Reid is officially ‘undisclosed’, but is thought to be around £10m for the striker. Manager Neil Warnock has now added four new players to his squad, while Junior Hoilett has signed a new contract. […]

West Wales Raiders RLFC have appointed the award winning Australian-born Kim Williams as their new head coach, starting from the 2019 season. The former high performance manager of Melbourne Storm, Williams has built a strong reputation in Australia and is recognised as being one the best head coaches outside of the NRL.

As 40th birthday parties go it was certainly a bit different. Yes, there was cake and beer in the end, but everyone who turned up had to run for the pleasure. But it was worth all the sweat on one of the hottest nights of the year at the wonderful new blue track at Cardiff Met, where James Thie marked his move into the Vet 40 category by adding another record to his impressive collection.

England’s Luke Bishop won the Llantrisant Squash Open title, beating Welshman Greg Tippings in the final. Bishop, a 26-year-old from Taunton, won a fiercely contested final which lasted 72 minutes. Top seed Bishop overcame Lewis Poole 3-2 in his semi-final (7-11, 11-9, 11-4, 8-11, 11-5), while second seed Tippings won 9-11, 11-3, 11-9, 11-8 against […]

As Wales players rest up after their tour exertions, in his latest column Robin Davey reflects for Dai Sport on some of the unexpected plus points of a trip that far exceeded expectations – and the impact it may have on the international season ahead. Wales go into their autumn series against Scotland, Australia, Tonga and […]

Bala Town arrive in Italy today as they embark on their latest European adventure. The club will represent Welsh football in the money-spinning preliminary qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League on Thursday night against San Marino side Tre Fiori. The Lakesiders are one of two Welsh clubs entering the preliminary stage of the competition […]

Newly promoted Caernarfon Town and Llanelli will both start their seasons with home fixtures on the opening weekend of the new JD Welsh Premier League season, which will commence on Friday August 10. Caernarfon will welcome Cefn Druids to The Oval, in what will also feature in the league’s first televised game of the game […]

Laura Halford continued the Welsh domination of the British Rhythmic Gymnastics crown as she won her fifth all-round title in Telford. The 22-year-old made it five wins in the past six years to extend Welsh success in the showpiece event to 11 triumphs in the past 13 years, building on the record-breaking success of Frankie Jones in winning six titles between 2006-12.

Belfast Giants forward Colin Shields says he sees no reason why fellow NHL draftee Liam Kirk can’t be a star in North America. The 18-year-old is with new club Arizona Coyotes after being picked on Saturday and is already being put through his paces as he looks to make his mark. Kirk was a key […]

Wales found the Austrian’s a much tougher nut to crack than Slovakia and were beaten 3-0 in their second game in the Open Series in Zagreb. A day after they had hammed Slovakia 6-1, Wales found the side ranked five places above them in the world rankings too hot to handle despite dominating the opening exchanges.

Four players from Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf’s successful rugby league side are hoping to get a taste of international rugby league for the first time. Having only lost two matches in 26 outings over the last four years in the Champion Schools competition for the Cardiff-based school, Josh Atkinson, Gwilym Evans, Iwan Johnes and Iwan Pyrs-Jones have been selected for the Wales under 16 squad and will hope to earn a place in the side to face England in September.

Former Newport County striker Tom Meechan has signed for Southern League Premier Division club Merthyr Town. Qualified maths teacher Meechan has also played for Hungerford Town, St Ives Town and St Neots Town, while he netted 53 goals for Thurlow Nunn League Godmanchester Rovers in 2014-15. “Scoring goals is my main asset,” said former University […]

Wales international Georgia Lewis steered Southerndown to the Welsh Ladies Team Championships title on her last day before starting the journey to be a PGA professional. They beat Ashburnham 4-1 in the final of the event held over four days at Langland Bay near Swansea, but perhaps the key victory came in round two with a 3-2 victory over Newport who had won the title for the last three years and were going for an historic quadruple.

Nicky Grist and Juha Kankkunen will be honoured as the official ‘Rally Legends’ of this autumn’s Dayinsure Wales Rally GB (4-7 October) – 25 years after their famous victory on the 1993 event. The 1993 Rally GB is remembered as one of the toughest and most challenging editions of the famous event’s long-running history. Held late in November, that year’s gruelling event was based in Birmingham with overnight stops in Lancaster and Gateshead – with the route using roads in the grounds of stately homes throughout central England and visiting the forests of Wales, the Lake District, the Scottish Borders and Yorkshire Moors.

Another season over, another last place finish and another new coach required – life is pretty predictable for the Celtic Dragons. If there were prizes for effort, enthusiasm, team work and support, then they would be at the top by a mile. Unfortunately, top-level competitive sport doesn’t work like that.  As Julie Hoornweg heads back to Australia, the players and Welsh Netball officials will be left to reflect on a season in which they finished bottom for the second successive year following a last round defeat by 65-42 to Severn Stars this week, saw the Wales world ranking drop to 10th after a disappointing Commonwealth Games and a head coach vacancy with both the Dragons and Welsh teams.

Automatic picks Jake Heyward and James Tomlinson have been joined by fellow Welshman Joe Brier in the Great Britain team for next month’s Junior World Athletics Championships in Finland. Rising middle distance star Heyward and discus prodigy Tomlinson had already booked their places in Tampere by virtue of meeting the qualifying standards and winning their events at the trials held in Bedford earlier this month.

One of Wales’ biggest motorsport events takes place on Thursday and Friday, when 500 riders take part in the Mid Wales Centre ACU – International Welsh 2 Day Enduro. Competitors from around the world, including an eight-man sidecar team from Australia, will compete over a single 150-mile long course near Llandrindod Wells. First run in 1951, the event has become a classic in the enduro motorbike and sidecar world – with many making the annual passage to Powys for this extraordinary event.

Newport County have signed Welsh international midfielder Andrew Crofts on a one-year deal. The 34-year-old will arrive at Rodney Parade with 438 league appearances behind him, including a season in the Premier League with Norwich City, and 29 Welsh caps. Crofts launched his career at Gillingham, where he was a team mate of County boss Michael Flynn.