Connah’s Quay seal unlikely win; slender defeats for Bala Town and Bangor City Connah’s Quay claimed a famous first-leg win over HJK Helsinki as the three Welsh Premier League clubs all kept their UEFA Europa League ties open ahead of next week’s return legs. It was the Nomads whoever who claimed the result the night, […]

Head coach Marc LeFebvre has quit Dundee Stars. The 2017-18 season starts in only a few weeks, but LeFebvre left Cardiff Devils’ Elite League rivals with little warning. Stars said: “Marc LeFebvre has left the club with immediate effect.” The Canadian has taken a coaching in North America, although he hasn’t revealed which club he […]

Rating Cardiff City’s 2016/2017 Transfer signings. In recent years Cardiff City’s spending has been severely restricted at the request of owner Vincent Tan and due to punishing Financial Fair Play rules. This was no exception during the 2016/17 season as the pattern continued. Here, Iestyn Samuel provides a review of last season’s signings.

Forward Layne Ulmer will be back in Cardiff for 2017-18 after a remarkable first season as a Devil. Ulmer joined the Devils last summer from Italian club Asiago, where he spent the previous seven seasons, five of which were spent playing alongside current Devil Sean Bentivoglio. Ulmer was lured to Cardiff by the opportunity to win a championship and to […]

Welsh club Celtic Flames face a tough opening match in Sunday’s opening fixture against Pulse at the Super Club tournament in Nelson, New Zealand. Pulse, full name Te Wananga o Raukawa Pulse, were runners-up to champions Southern Steel in the ANZ Premiership final this week. The Flames players are already in Nelson preparing for the […]

Jade Jones saw her hopes of claiming the one major gold missing from her collection dashed after a World Taekwondo Championships defeat in Muju. Wales’ double Olympic champion was beaten in the semi-final in South Korea by local fighter Ah-Reum Lee.

Cardiff Devils will announce their next signing at 2pm today. Head coach Andrew Lord revealed this morning that Mark Louis is returning, taking their total of import signings to eight. Elite League clubs can feature 14 import players plus five British players on their roster, while they can also sign three UK trained players born […]

A long-term Achilles injury has proved one hurdle too many for an athlete who has been described as “an icon of the sport in Wales”. Rhys Williams, who represented Great Britain and Wales in the 400m hurdles at Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth level, has brought the curtain down on one of the most successful careers in Welsh athletics history after announcing his retirement.

Another player from the Elite League Championship winning Devils will be back to defend the title in 2017-18. Defenceman Mark Louis returns for his second season as a Devil after an impressive first season in Cardiff.  Last year he scored five goals and added 12 assists for 17 points in 63 games for the Devils. […]

It’s all on the line for the Lions on Saturday, including the reputation of Warren Gatland, argues Robin Davey. Another defeat and the tour’s failings will be a black mark to set against his numerous successes. Saturday really is crunch time for the British and Irish Lions and for coach Warren Gatland, in particular. The Lions were soundly beaten 30-15 by the All Blacks in the opening Test last week and if they lose the second in Wellington the series will be gone as well. That would make the third Test next week largely irrelevant. But the reputation of Gatland is very much on the line as well as that of many of the leading players.

Celtic Flames, the newly-formed Super Club netball team from Wales, have added two New Zealand internationals to their line-up. Anna Thompson and Temalisi Fakahokotau have joined the Wales players in the Flames squad for the inaugural International Super Cup competition. Flames play their first fixture against Kiwi team Te Wananga o Raukawa Pulse this Sunday […]

Newport County have started their pre-season training programme just over a fortnight before their first friendly at Undy Athletic. Manager Mike Flynn will again have coach Wayne Hatswell and first team consultant Lennie Lawrence working alongside him, while County currently have 20 players in their squad. Winger Jennison Myrie-Williams is the only player from last […]

Team Wales were victorious at the European Team Squash Championships in Helsinki, Finland. They earned success against some of the finest players and strongest teams from across the continent. Wales’ women won the Division One bronze medal, while the men’s team have returned to the top group for 2018 after sweeping all before them to […]

Cardiff City’s Emyr Huws has signed for Ipswich Town in a multi-million pounds transfer. Neither club have revealed the fee, but Ipswich have certainly paid a substantial amount for the Wales international. He made 13 appearances for the Tractor Boys during a loan spell in the second half of 2016-17 and he has now signed […]

The New Saints 1-2 Europa FC UEFA Champions League, first qualifying round, first-leg Welsh champions The New Saints will face a difficult second-leg in Portugal next week after Scott Ruscoe’s first game as interim manager ended in a 2-1 defeat to Europa FC. The visiting side were punishing on the counter-attack and ruthless in front […]

The Welsh U17 basketball team have completed a number of international friendly games against the Welsh U18 and Ireland U17 squads as preparation for their forthcoming trip to Ireland. Wales will play the Irish U15s in a three-game series before staying on to take part in a five-day basketball camp at Gormanston College just outside Dublin.

Pink is the colour of cricket this summer and Glamorgan are one of many counties hoping new revenue might keep them out of the red. Richard Thomas says the new format is no pale imitation. Swinging pink balls, soft lighting, the thwack of leather on willow and the promise of a light supper. Sounds like one of those parties you are glad not to be invited to. Welcome to day-night County Championship cricket with all 18 counties playing four-day cricket under floodlights this month. Cardiff has been hosting its first ever day-night County Championship match against Derbyshire, although Glamorgan are old hands at this having taken part in the only previous day-night Championship fixture back in 2011 down in Kent.

Wales’ Beth Davies has literally walked into the Great Britain team for the World Athletics Championships in London later this summer. The Cardiff AAC race walker finished second in the British Grand Prix of Race Walking held at Roundhay Park, Leeds, at the weekend. Davies finished second to Gemma Bridge in the women’s 20km British Championship race, clocking a Welsh record of 93 mins 38 secs – the third fastest time ever by a British athlete.

19 September 1959 remains the only date in history that Welsh rugby players have been part of a Test match winning side against the All Blacks at Eden Park in Auckland, and the only time the British&Irish Lions have won a Test match at Eden Park.

Derbyshire ended day two of the day-night floodlit Championship clash with a lead of 53 over Glamorgan at the start of their second innings in Cardiff. Having bowled Derbyshire out for 288 on the first day, Glamorgan resumed their innings on 5-0 on the second day, as Jacques Rudolph and nightwatchman Timm van der Gugten looked to make an early dent in the first innings deficit.