WOMEN’S FOOTBALL: Bristol City’s women’s team will have Ashton Gate as their primary home ground next season, the club have announced.

The news comes as season tickets went on sale for the Robins’ return to the Women’s Super League, sealed on Sunday with a 4-0 home win over Charlton.

That match took place at Ashton Gate, in front of a record crowd of 7,045.

Lauren Smith’s Championship winners have played the majority of their home fixtures at the Robins High Performance Centre since being relegated from the WSL in 2021.

They had previously played most of their home games at Bath City’s Twerton Park.

WOMEN’S FOOTBALL: Cup holders Celtic edged out Glasgow City 1-0 on Sunday thanks to a first-half strike from Natasha Flint and set up the first-ever Old Firm Scottish Cup final after Rangers had comfortably seen off Motherwell 2-0.

In another first for Scottish women’s football both semi-finals were played at Hampden Park, the national stadium.

Rangers will be eyeing a trophy double after winning this season’s Premier League Cup.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Newcastle Eagles, the most successful team in British Basketball League history, left it until the last game of the regular season to sneak into the play-offs by swiping aside Plymouth 90-68. 

They will face runaway champions London over two legs in the last eight after Bristol have travelled to Manchester on Thursday for the first play-off game. 

League runners-up Leicester meet Sheffield and Caledonia host Cheshire in the other ties.

WOMEN’S CRICKET: Thailand begin their three-match Twenty20 series with Zimbabwe in Bangkok this morning having already cantered to a 3-0 whitewash over the same opponents in a one-day series. 

The nearest Zimbabwe got to their hosts was a 45-run defeat in the second match but they do currently sit two places higher than Thailand in the ICC rankings for the short-format game.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: It’s fourth against second in League One tomorrow night as Barnsley meet Ipswich in a crucial game for both team’s automatic promotion hopes.

In tomorrow evening’s other fixtures, top club Plymouth will all but secure their route to the Championship if they overcome Bristol Rovers, Bolton’s game with Accrington sees both teams desperate for points at either end of the table while Lincoln host Burton and Cheltenham travel to Oxford.