News · 10 September 2021
Road closures for Liverpool Half Marathon
The 28th annual BTR Liverpool Skyline Half Marathon returns on Sunday 12 September with more than 1,500 runners pulling on their running shoes to take part.
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News · 3 September 2021
Are you ready to ‘tek’ on a new sport?
Liverpool is expanding its sporting portfolio with a new football-based sport. The FITEQ (Federation Internationale de Teqball) has donated two teqball tables to Liverpool which will be located at the Simpson Football Hub in Hunts Cross and the Jeffrey Humble Football and Fitness Hub at Long Lane. Teqball is a football-based sport – played on
Liverpool · 5 August 2021
Rugby League World Cup hope for city in 2022
Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) and the UK Government have announced their intention to stage the flagship event in the international Rugby League calendar in 2022.
News · 16 June 2021
World Gymnastics Championships get creative
With 500 days to go until the FIG World Gymnastics Championships 2022 begin in Liverpool, Championship organisers are embracing the city region’s creativity with a new competition and ambassador. New ambassador Paul Curtis is the Liverpool City Region Artist of the Year, whose works have quickly become Liverpool icons. ‘For All Liverpool’s Liver Birds’ on
News · 22 April 2021
World’s best gymnasts to go head-to-head in Liverpool
Tickets are now on sale for the World Gymnastics Championships, which will see the best gymnasts from across the globe heading to Liverpool.
News · 9 January 2021
Meet the binman hoping to make it a rubbish weekend for Spurs
Binman turned Marine FC footballer James Barrigan talks about taking on Premiership giants Spurs in the FA Cup.
Covid-19 · 22 October 2020
Gyms and indoor sports facilities can reopen from Saturday 24 October
The Government is to allow gyms, indoor sports facilities, fitness and dance studios in Liverpool and the wider city region to reopen from Saturday 24 October. They were included in Tier 3 restrictions which came into force on Wednesday 14 October in a bid to drive down COVID-19 infection rates. However, local leaders successfully argued
Civic · 26 June 2020
City congratulates LFC on Premiership title win
Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson has congratulated Liverpool Football Club on winning the Premiership title. They secured their 19th title last night – leading to an outpouring of emotion from fans who have been waiting 30 years for them to lift the trophy. The city council is urging ecstatic fans to try and maintain social
sport · 27 February 2020
Netball World Cup delivers major economic boost to Liverpool
The Vitality Netball World Cup, which took place at the M&S Bank Arena Liverpool, delivered an £8.18m economic boost to the city’s economy according to new research from UK Sport. Overall 6.07 million people in Britain attended, watched or followed the tournament which took place in July 2019. In addition to the economic gains, the
sport · 10 February 2020
Funding to help the inactive become active!
Liverpool is limbering up to encourage people to get active thanks to new physical activity funding. The city has been awarded £300,000 by Get Out Get Active – a national, ground-breaking project which aims to work with some of the least active communities or groups in the country, and give them the confidence to take
Culture · 27 November 2019
Top team appointed to lead delivery of major sporting events
Two of Liverpool’s leading sporting executives are to oversee the delivery of the city’s major international sports events. Brian Barwick – the former controller of ITV Sport, Chair of the Rugby Football League and Chief Executive of the Football Association – will chair a new Sports Event Delivery Group (SEDG). The group will maximise the
Community · 26 November 2019
Anyika hangs up her spikes
Liverpool’s Olympic track star Anyika Onoura is under starter’s orders for a new direction in life after saying a fond farewell to the world of competitive racing. And in announcing her retirement, the 35 year-old bronze medal winner has pledged to work with Liverpool City Council to nurture the next generation of homegrown talent. Anyika
sport · 14 November 2019
European Cross Country event heads to city
The largest event in the British Athletics Cross Challenge Series will be held at Sefton Park on Saturday 23rd November. This prestigious event also incorporates the individual and team trials for the GB Team for the European Cross Country Championships to be held in Lisbon, Portugal in December. It provides an opportunity for runners of
Arts & Events · 7 November 2019
Looking back at the Vitality Netball World Cup Liverpool 2019
In 2009 England Netball, in partnership with Liverpool City Council, UK Sport and The ACC Liverpool Group, started work on a bid to host the Netball World Cup which was submitted to the International Netball Federation (INF) in 2014. In 2015, the INF confirmed that the bid had been successful. The sport had experienced growth
News · 4 November 2019
Net gains for Liverpool’s grass roots football
GRASSROOTS football in Liverpool is to get a nearly half a million pound funding boost over the next three years thanks to a cash injection from the city’s Premier League clubs. Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs’ respective charities will each invest £75,000 a year in a Grassroots Football Development Fund to provide equipment, training
sport · 1 November 2019
Footie stars celebrate sporting hubs’ anniversary
Premier League footballers Trent Alexander-Arnold and Tom Davies joined Jamie Carragher on Thursday, 31 October, to celebrate the first anniversary of four multi-million-pound sporting hubs across Liverpool. The trio, who all grew up in Liverpool, were given a tour of the state-of-the-art Jericho Lane site, one of four multi-sport hubs that have been developed as
News · 18 September 2019
Lifesaving defibrillators to be legacy to grassroots football legend
EVERY local authority football pavilion across Liverpool now has a life-saving defibrillator installed – as a legacy to a grassroots football legend. John Cantwell, 69, died in February 2018 while watching his son play football on the Joe Stone playing fields in Fazakerley. The dad-of-two, from Walton, began managing amateur football teams alongside his wife
sport · 5 September 2019
Smoking gets kicked out of kids’ football matches
Smoking by adults at children’s football matches in Liverpool will be officially stubbed out from this weekend as the new season kicks off. After a successful six-week pilot throughout the summer, Smokefree Sidelines Liverpool guidance will now apply and any adults smoking or vaping at matches or training sessions will be asked to stop by
sport · 16 July 2019
Pick up a paddle on National Table Tennis Day
An international table tennis star will be on hand in Liverpool to help get people into the sport on National Table Tennis Day - Thursday, 18 July.
sport · 24 June 2019
Liverpool stands on ceremony for Vitality Netball World Cup
The Vitality Netball World Cup’s opening ceremony is set to be a celebration of the world in one city – with its distinct Liverpool twist being beamed to a global audience. Due to its reputation for staging major, crowd-pulling events, the Vitality Netball World Cup 2019 organisers agreed that Culture Liverpool, Liverpool City Council’s events
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