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Chelsea were awarded the Women's Super League title and Aston Villa were declared the winners of the second-tier Women's Championship by England's Football Association (FA) on Friday after the season was ended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2019/20 season in the top two tiers of English women's football was called to an end on Monday by the Football Association (FA), but no decision has yet been made on how final standings will be decided.

The Women's FA Cup prize fund will increase to three million pounds ($3.92 million) from next season, England's Football Association said on Monday.

The 2019-20 Women's FA Cup has been given the green light to complete the last three rounds, with the final to be held at Wembley on Oct. 31, the Football Association said on Friday.

All Scottish football below the second tier Championship has been suspended for three weeks until Jan. 31 due to a surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, the Scottish football association said on Monday.

The English Football Association has written to Women's Super League (WSL) and Women's Championship clubs informing them that the season is being cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sky Sports reported on Wednesday.

Phil Neville is stepping down as England women's team manager with immediate effect, the Football Association (FA) said on Monday.

The Premier League is providing around 1 million pounds ($1.2 million) to help the women's league start next season during the coronavirus pandemic.

Blackburn Rovers have withdrawn from the FA Women’s Championship due to unsustainable financial pressures stemming from increased professionalization requirements. The club is in discussions regarding placement in the Women’s National League. Players and staff are now in limbo, highlighting the financial challenges facing smaller clubs in women's football, mirroring Reading FC Women's similar exit last year.

The Premier League and Women's Super League will introduce concussion substitutions trials from Feb. 6, England's Football Association said on Friday.

Treble winners Manchester City will kick off their 2023-24 season against Arsenal on August 6 in the Community Shield, the traditional curtain-raiser to the Premier League season, England's Football Association (FA) said on Friday.

Sarina Wiegman will leave her role as manager of the Netherlands' women's team after next year's Olympic Games to take charge of England as the replacement for Phil Neville.

Three Premier League matches scheduled for the upcoming weekend have been postponed ahead of Queen Elizabeth's funeral, the Premier League announced on Monday.

UEFA is set to suspend Russian teams from all competitions in response to the invasion of Ukraine, according to a report Monday by German sports agency SID, an AFP subsidiary. The first Russian team affected would be Spartak Moscow, who face RB Leipzig away in a Europa League last 16, first-leg tie on March 10.

English women's soccer has seen a spike in coronavirus infections with 32 positives after tests on 864 players and club staff in the top two leagues.

Jill Ellis, who led the United States to back-to-back Women's World Cup titles, would make the ideal replacement for England head coach Phil Neville when he leaves the job next year, former striker Eniola Aluko has said.

England women's head coach Sarina Wiegman played down suggestions of agreeing to a new contract but said that she feels happy with her current deal that runs until 2025.

Interim England women coach Hege Riise will take charge of Britain's women's team at this year's Tokyo Olympics, the Football Association (FA) said on Wednesday.

The Football Association made a public apology to England women's soccer internationals Eniola Aluko and Drew Spence on Wednesday for comments that were "discriminatory on grounds of race" made to them by former manager Mark Sampson.

Nagpur will host the National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy for the first time next year.

England's Football Association and leagues have urged the government to allow fans to return to stadiums, assuring supporters in an open letter that they can hold matches safely.

England's governing Football Association (FA) unveiled a new diversity code on Tuesday in the hope of ensuring more ethnic minority candidates land senior jobs within the sport. The Football Leadership Diversity Code will ask clubs to achieve targets in both coaching positions and significant management roles.

As the 90,000-capacity Wembley held its first game without fans, the financial impact of the pandemic on English football was revealed by the national stadium's owners.

The future of English women's soccer faces an unprecedented threat as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and decisive action must be taken to protect its future, researchers have said.

Vishal Gehani overcame fancied Faisal Khan by snatching a hard-fought 3-1 (44-67, 58-53, 51-40, 49-34) win in a third-round phase-1 match of the National Sports Club of India (NSCI) organised All India Snooker Open ‘Baulkline’ 2022.

UEFA's Euro 2021 Women's Championship, to be held in England, will be played one year later in July 2022, European soccer's governing body decided at an executive committee meeting on Thursday.

Finland's football association has begun offering a free "sports hijab" to any player who wants one, in a move designed to attract a greater diversity of players into the sport.

Sweden's Thomas Dennerby was on Saturday appointed head coach of the Indian women's team for the FIFA U-17 World Cup, bringing with him plenty of success he had tasted with various national squads.