2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match
Gareth Bale became the first substitute to score two goals in a Champions League final and was named man of the match. His first goal received acclaim as one of the best in Champions League history and was compared to Ronaldo's bicycle kick goal against Juventus in the quarter-final and manager Zinedine Zidane's goal in the 2002 final.


2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match
Sergio Ramos's tackle on Mohamed Salah received mixed reactions from the press and fans on whether the injury was the result of a deliberate blow or an accident. Egyptian fans responded with anger on social media, including insults that became trending topics on Twitter. A Change.org petition calling on UEFA and FIFA to punish Ramos for the challenge received 400,000 signatures within two days. A separate incident involving Ramos and Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius raised questions after a video showed him allegedly elbowing Karius in the face prior to his first goalkeeping error.


2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match
UEFA declined to take action against Ramos for the incident with Karius. After an examination, on 4 June 2018, physiatrist Ross Zafonte at the Massachusetts General Hospital said in a statement that Karius suffered a concussion during the match and that, according to him, it was possible the concussion could have affected the player's performance.


2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match
Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp lost his sixth of seven major finals, including Champions League and league cups. After the match, Loris Karius tearfully apologised to Liverpool supporters who remained in the stands and stated that his mistakes "lost the team the final". After the match, Karius received online death threats and hate messages directed at him and his family. He would move to Turkish club Beşiktaş on loan the following season.


2018 UEFA Europa League Final
The 2018 UEFA Europa League Final was the final match of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League, the 47th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 9th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. It was played at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Décines-Charpieu, Lyon, France on 16 May 2018, between French side Marseille and Spanish side Atlético Madrid.


2018 UEFA Europa League Final
Atlético Madrid won the match 3–0 for their third Europa League title. As winners, Atlético Madrid earned the right to play against the winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, in the 2018 UEFA Super Cup. They also qualified to enter the group stage of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, but since they already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved was given to the third-placed team of the 2017–18 Ligue 1, Lyon, as Ligue 1 was the 5th-ranked association according to next season's access list.


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Teams
In the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Europa League era.


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Venue
The Parc Olympique Lyonnais was announced as the final venue on 9 December 2016, following the decision of the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Nyon, Switzerland.


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Background
Marseille reached their third final after a 3–2 aggregate win against Austrian side Red Bull Salzburg, clinched after extra time. They lost the final in both previous occasions (1999 and 2004). This was also their fifth final in all seasonal UEFA competitions, having also played in two European Cup/Champions League finals (winning in 1993; and losing in 1991).


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Background
Atlético Madrid also reached their third final after a 2–1 aggregate win against English side Arsenal. They won the final in both previous occasions (2010 and 2012). This was also their ninth final in UEFA seasonal competitions, having played in three European Cup/Champions League finals (losing in 1974, 2014 and 2016) and three Cup Winners' Cup final (winning in 1962; and losing in 1963 and 1986).


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Background
The two teams had played each other twice in the Champions League. Atlético Madrid won the first match, while the second was drawn in the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League group stage.


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Road to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Pre-match, Ambassador
The ambassador for the final was former French international Eric Abidal, who played three seasons at Lyon and later won two UEFA Champions League titles with Barcelona.


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Pre-match, Ticketing
With a stadium capacity of 57,000 for the final, a total amount of 23,000 tickets were available to fans and the general public, with the two finalist teams receiving tickets (number to be confirmed) each and with the other tickets being available for sale to fans worldwide via UEFA.com from 15 to 22 March 2018 in four price categories: €150, €100, €70, and €45. The remaining tickets were allocated to the local organising committee, UEFA and national associations, commercial partners and broadcasters, and to serve the corporate hospitality programme.


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Pre-match, Opening ceremony
French DJ duo Ofenbach performed at the opening ceremony preceding the final.


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Match, Officials
On 7 May 2018, UEFA announced that Dutchman Björn Kuipers would officiate the final. It was the second time he was appointed for a UEFA Europa League final, as he had already been the referee in the 2013 final. He was also the referee for the 2014 UEFA Champions League Final, which Atlético lost to Real Madrid in extra time. He was joined by his fellow countrymen, with Sander van Roekel and Erwin Zeinstra as assistant referees, Danny Makkelie and Pol van Boekel as additional assistant referees, and Mario Diks as reserve assistant referee. The fourth official for the final was Szymon Marciniak from Poland.


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Match, Summary
In the 21st minute, André-Frank Zambo Anguissa miss-controlled a pass out from goalkeeper Steve Mandanda, the ball came to Gabi who passed into Antoine Griezmann who scored with a low shot into the bottom left corner. Marseille captain Dimitri Payet left the match due to injury in the 32nd minute. It was 2–0 in the 49th minute when Antoine Griezmann dinked the ball past the advancing Steve Mandanda and into the bottom left from inside the penalty area after a pass from Koke. Gabi got the third goal in the 89th minute with a low right foot finish from the right after another pass from Koke.


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Match, Details
The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw, which was held on 13 April 2018, 12:00 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2018 UEFA Europa League Final, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Sander van Roekel (Netherlands)Erwin Zeinstra (Netherlands)Fourth official:Szymon Marciniak (Poland)Additional assistant referees:Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)Pol van Boekel (Netherlands)Reserve assistant referee:Mario Diks (Netherlands)


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
The 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as 2018 UEFA Under-17 Euro) was the 17th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (36th edition if the Under-16 era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe. England, which were selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015, hosted the tournament.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
A total of 16 teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 eligible to participate. Each match had a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
The Netherlands won their third title by beating Italy 4–1 on penalties in the final after a 2–2 draw. Spain were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Belgium in the quarter-finals.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification
All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time), and with the hosts England qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2018.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Final draw
The final draw was held on 5 April 2018, 17:30 BST (UTC+1), at the St George's Park in Burton, England. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Final draw
Hosts England were assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the other teams were seeded according to their results in the qualification elite round, with the seven best elite round group winners (counting all elite round results) placed in Pot 1 and drawn to positions 1 and 2 in the groups, and the remaining eight teams (the eighth-best elite round group winner and the seven elite round group runners-up) placed in Pot 2 and drawn to positions 3 and 4 in the groups.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Venues
The tournament took place at six venues across the Midlands and South Yorkshire. England's opening match took place at the Proact Stadium in Chesterfield with the final taking place at the New York Stadium in Rotherham.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Match officials
A total of 8 referees, 12 assistant referees and 4 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Squads
Each national team submitted a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 40).


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Group stage
The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 10 April 2018.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Group stage
In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01 and 17.02):


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time is played).


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Team of the tournament
The UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament (previously a squad of 18 players were selected):


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
The 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-17 football competition that determined the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts England in the 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
Apart from England, all remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time). Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to participate. Each match has a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Format
The schedule of each mini-tournament is as follows (Regulations Article 20.04):


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
In the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round and the seven best runners-up from the elite round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01, 15.02 and 15.03):


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 13 December 2016, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine, Spain and Gibraltar, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
The qualifying round must be played by 19 November 2017.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
Times up to 28 October 2017 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Ranking of third-placed teams
To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The draw for the elite round was held on 6 December 2017, 11:45 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Germany and Portugal, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
The elite round must be played by the end of March 2018.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
Times up to 24 March 2018 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2).


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups, Group 1
The Serbia v Ukraine match was completed with a score of 1–2 before a default victory was awarded to Serbia due to participation of disqualified Ukrainian players Mykola Yarosh and Roman Bodnia.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Ranking of second-placed teams
To determine the seven best second-placed teams from the elite round which qualify for the final tournament, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first and third-placed teams in their group are taken into account.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads
The following is a list of squads for each national team competing at the 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship in England. Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players born on or after 1 January 2001.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads, Group C, Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland named their squad on 4 May 2018.


2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship squads, Group C, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina named their squad on 24 April 2018.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
The 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2018) was the 17th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (67th edition if the Under-18 and Junior eras are included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Finland hosted the final tournament, between 16 and 29 July, after being selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015. A total of eight teams competed in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1999 eligible to participate.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland as the UEFA representatives, besides Poland who qualified automatically as hosts.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
In the final, 2017 runners-up Portugal beat the 2016 losing finalists Italy 4–3, after extra-time, to win their first title in the under-19 era and their fourth overall. Having won the Under-17 title in 2016, this generation of players became the first to hold the European title in both youth categories. England were the defending champions, but were eliminated by France, finishing third in the group stage. They lost 0–3 to Norway in the play-off round and thus failed to qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, where they would also defend their title.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Qualification
All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time), and with the hosts Finland qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2018.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Qualification, Final draw
The final draw was held on 30 May 2018, 12:00 EEST (UTC+3), at the Vaasa City Hall in Vaasa, Finland. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Finland were assigned to position A1 in the draw.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Match officials
A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Squads
Each national team submitted a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 39).


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Group stage
The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 5 June 2018.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Group stage
The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup. The third-placed teams entered the FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Group stage
In the group stage, teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 16.01 and 16.02):


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup
The following six teams from UEFA qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, including Poland which qualified as hosts.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Goalscorers
There were 58 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 3.62 goals per match.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Team of the Tournament
The UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament (and an additional nine substitutes):


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
The 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-19 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Finland in the 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
Apart from Finland, all remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition (including Kosovo who entered for the first time). Players born on or after 1 January 1999 are eligible to participate.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Format
The schedule of each mini-tournament is as follows (Regulations Article 19.04):


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
In the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 13 December 2016, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
The qualifying round must be played by 19 November 2017, and on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
Times up to 28 October 2017 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups, Group 11
The France v Andorra match was completed with a 7–0 scoreline before a default victory was awarded.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The draw for the elite round was held on 6 December 2017, 11:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Spain and Portugal, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Teams from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
The elite round must be played on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
Times up to 24 March 2018 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2).


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads
Each national team submitted a squad of 20 players, two of whom had to be goalkeepers.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads
Players in boldface have been capped at full international level since the tournament.


2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship squads
Ages are as of the start of the tournament, 16 July 2017.


2018 UEFA Super Cup
The 2018 UEFA Super Cup was the 43rd edition of the UEFA Super Cup, an annual football match organised by UEFA and contested by the reigning champions of the two main European club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. The match featured two Spanish sides, Real Madrid, the winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League and the defending champions having won the previous two editions, and Atlético Madrid, the winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League. It was played at the Lilleküla Stadium in Tallinn, Estonia, on 15 August 2018, and was the first European club final held in Estonia.


2018 UEFA Super Cup
In March 2018, UEFA announced that a fourth substitution would be allowed in extra time and that the number of substitutes had been increased from 7 to 12. The kick-off time was also changed from 20:45 CEST to 21:00 CEST.


2018 UEFA Super Cup
Atlético Madrid won the match 4–2 after extra time for their third UEFA Super Cup title.


2018 UEFA Super Cup, Teams
This was the fifth all-Spanish Super Cup, and the fourth in the last five years. This was also the first Super Cup to be played by two teams from the same city. A Spanish side has appeared in the Super Cup for nine of the previous ten years. Additionally, as both teams are from Spain, the Super Cup was guaranteed to be won by a Spanish team for the ninth time in ten seasons and for five consecutive years.


2018 UEFA Super Cup, Teams
Real Madrid were aiming to win their fifth Super Cup, which would tie them with record-holders Barcelona and Milan, while having won the last two editions, have the chance to become the first team to win three consecutive Super Cups. On the other hand, Atlético Madrid, having won the previous two Super Cups they played in, had the chance to become the first team to win their first three Super Cups.


2018 UEFA Super Cup, Teams
This was the tenth Madrid Derby match in European competitions, with all previous nine matches having been in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League. Real Madrid held the advantage with 5 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats, and have never been knocked out by Atlético Madrid either over two legs or in a one-match decider.


2018 UEFA Super Cup, Venue
The Lilleküla Stadium was announced as the final venue on 15 September 2016, following the decision of the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Athens, Greece. The stadium was known as the "Lilleküla Arena" due to UEFA's sponsorship regulations.


2018 UEFA Super Cup, Pre-match, Ticketing
With a stadium capacity of 13,000 for the match, around 70% of the tickets were available to fans and the general public, available for sale to fans worldwide via UEFA.com from 5 to 26 June 2018 in three price categories: €130, €90, and €50. The remaining tickets were allocated to the local organising committee, UEFA and national associations, commercial partners and broadcasters.


2018 UEFA Super Cup, Match, Officials
On 2 August 2018, UEFA announced that Szymon Marciniak of Poland would officiate the match. Marciniak has been a FIFA referee since 2011, and officiated at UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. He was joined by his fellow countrymen, with Paweł Sokolnicki and Tomasz Listkiewicz as assistant referees, Paweł Raczkowski and Tomasz Musiał as additional assistant referees, and Radosław Siejka as reserve assistant referee. The fourth official for the match was Romanian Ovidiu Hațegan.


2018 UEFA Super Cup, Match, Details
The Champions League winners were designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes.


2018 UEFA Super Cup, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Paweł Sokolnicki (Poland)Tomasz Listkiewicz (Poland)Fourth official:Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)Additional assistant referees:Paweł Raczkowski (Poland)Tomasz Musiał (Poland)Reserve assistant referee:Radosław Siejka (Poland)


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
The 2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final was the final match of the 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League, the 17th season of Europe's premier women's club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the ninth season since it was renamed from the UEFA Women's Cup to the UEFA Women's Champions League. It was played at the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 24 May 2018, between German side Wolfsburg and French side Lyon. This was the last time that a host city for the Women's Champions League final is automatically assigned by which city won the bid to host the men's Champions League final.


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
Lyon won the match 4–1 after extra time, following a scoreless opening 90 minutes; Wolfsburg's Pernille Harder opened the scoring in the 93rd minute, before goals from Amandine Henry, Eugénie Le Sommer, Ada Hegerberg and Camille Abily sealed the win for Lyon, their third UEFA Women's Champions League title in a row (the first team to do so) and their record fifth overall.


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Teams
In the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Women's Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Women's Champions League era.


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Teams
This was Lyon's seventh UEFA Women's Champions League Final, a new record. This was the third UEFA Women's Champions League Final between the two teams, after 2013 (won by Wolfsburg 1–0) and 2016 (won by Lyon 4–3 on penalties, 1–1 after extra time), and the third season in a row where the two teams met, as they also played each other in the previous season's quarter-finals, won by Lyon 2–1 on aggregate.


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Venue
The Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium was announced as the final venue on 15 September 2016, following the decision of the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Athens, Greece to appoint NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium as the venue of the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final.


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Road to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Pre-match, Ambassador
The ambassador for the final was Ukrainian international player Iya Andrushchak.


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Pre-match, Opening ceremony
Ukrainian singer Tayanna performed at the opening ceremony preceding the final.


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Officials
On 7 May 2018, UEFA announced that Jana Adámková of the Czech Republic would officiate the final. She would be joined by Sian Massey-Ellis of England and Sanja Rođak-Karšić of Croatia as assistant referees. The fourth official for the final was Ukrainian Kateryna Monzul, joined by fellow countrywoman Maryna Striletska as reserve official.


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Summary
The match began with near-empty stands due to heavy security at the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, where attendance was primarily local Kyivans. Lyon had the majority of chances in the first half, with several shots near the goal that were saved or deflected out of bounds. While Wolfsburg failed to register a shot on target during the first half, the team had several attacks that were stopped prematurely by Lyon's defense. Wolfsburg substituted two of their midfielders, Caroline Graham Hansen and Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir, to bring on winger Tessa Wullaert and relieve Gunnarsdóttir after she showed signs of fatigue.


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Summary
Wolfsburg's defense forced several long-distance shots from Lyon early in the second half, while the team's attacking players failed to create chances on counterattacks. In the 69th minute, Lyon appeared to have scored the match's first goal on a shot by Amandine Henry, but it was disallowed by referee Jana Adámková. During the first 90 minutes of play, Wolfsburg only registered two shots, neither of which were on target.


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Summary
Wolfsburg scored their first goal in the third minute of extra time on a deflected strike from Pernille Harder. Two minutes later, a tackle by Wolfsburg's Alexandra Popp on Delphine Cascarino earned her a second yellow card and she was sent off. Lyon's Henry scored the equalizing goal in the 95th minute on a long-range shot into the top corner of the goal. A minute later, Lyon's Eugénie Le Sommer scored the team's second goal on an assist from Shanice van de Sanden. Van de Sanden would also assist Lyon's next two goals, scored by Ada Hegerberg in the 103rd minute and Camille Abily in the 116th minute, as the team clinched their fifth Champions League title.


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Details
The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws, which was held on 24 November 2017, 13:30 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2018 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Sian Massey-Ellis (England)Sanja Rođak-Karšić (Croatia)Fourth official:Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)Reserve official:Maryna Striletska (Ukraine)


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
The 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-17 Euro 2018) was the 11th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-17 national teams of Europe. Lithuania, which were selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015, hosted the tournament from 9 to 21 May 2018.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 eligible to participate. Each match had a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament acted as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Uruguay as the UEFA representatives.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
Spain won their fourth title by beating defending champions Germany 2–0 in the final.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualification
A total of 46 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Lithuania qualifying automatically, the other 45 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2018.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Final draw
The final draw was held on 6 April 2018, 10:00 EEST (UTC+3), at the Kaunas State Musical Theatre in Kaunas, Lithuania. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Lithuania were assigned to position A1 in the draw.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Venues
In January 2015 Lithuanian Football Federation announced plans to host championships in Kaunas, Alytus, Marijampolė and Jonava, although Central stadium of Jonava had to improve the conditions in stadium. In early 2018 it was announced that competition would be held in three cities: Alytus, Marijampolė and Šiauliai.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Match officials
A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Squads
Each national team submitted a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 41).


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Group stage
The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 12 April 2018.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Group stage
In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01 and 17.02):


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time is played).


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Knockout stage, Semi-finals
Winners qualify for 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Losers enter the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
The following three teams from UEFA qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Goalscorers
Note: Goals scored in the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off are included in this list, but are not counted by UEFA for statistical purposes.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Team of the tournament
The UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament (previously a squad of 18 players were selected):


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
The 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-17 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Lithuania in the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
Apart from Lithuania, 45 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to participate. Each match has a duration of 80 minutes, consisting of two halves of 40 minutes with a 15-minute half-time.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Format
Initially the elite round would consist of 24 teams, drawn into six groups of four teams, with the six group winners and the runner-up with the best record against the first and third-placed teams in their group qualifying for the final tournament. After the qualifying round draw was held, UEFA decided to expand the elite round from 24 to 28 teams, allowing four more third-placed teams to advance to the elite round.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Format
The schedule of each mini-tournament is as follows (Regulations Article 20.04):


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
In the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
To determine the five best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.01):


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 11 November 2016, 09:10 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine would not be drawn in the same group.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
The qualifying round must be played between 1 August and 29 October 2017.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
Times up to 28 October 2017 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Ranking of third-placed teams
To determine the five best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The draw for the elite round was held on 24 November 2017, 11:45 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Germany, which received a bye to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
The elite round must be played between 1 February and 1 April 2018.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
Times up to 24 March 2018 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2).


2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship squads
The following is a list of squads for each national team competing at the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship in Lithuania. Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players born on or after 1 January 2001.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
The 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-19 Euro 2018) was the 17th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (21st edition if the Under-18 era is included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe. Switzerland, which were selected by UEFA on 26 January 2015, hosted the tournament, which took place between 18 and 30 July 2018.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 1999 eligible to participate.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
Spain were the defending champions, and successfully defended the title after beating Germany in the final, and became the first nation to win the women's under-17 and under-19 titles in the same year.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Qualification
A total of 49 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Kosovo who entered a competitive women's national team tournament for the first time), and with the hosts Switzerland qualifying automatically, the other 48 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2017, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2018.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Qualification, Final draw
The final draw was held on 23 April 2018, 18:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the Stufenbau in Ittigen, Switzerland. The eight teams (including the Elite round Group 1 winners whose identity was known at the time of the draw) were drawn into two groups of four teams. There was no seeding, except that hosts Switzerland were assigned to position A1 in the draw.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Venues
The eight teams were divided into two groups of four, a group West (Biel/Bienne, Yverdon-les-Bains) and a group East (Wohlen, Zug).


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Match officials
A total of 6 referees, 8 assistant referees and 2 fourth officials were appointed for the final tournament.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Squads
Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 41).


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Group stage
The final tournament schedule was confirmed on 30 April 2018.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Group stage
In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01 and 17.02):


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Goalscorers
There were 33 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 2.2 goals per match.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Team of the tournament
The UEFA technical observers selected the following 11 players for the team of the tournament (and an additional nine substitutes):


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
The 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-19 football competition that determined the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Switzerland in the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
Apart from Switzerland, 48 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition (including Kosovo who entered a competitive women's national team tournament for the first time). Players born on or after 1 January 1999 are eligible to participate.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Format
Initially the elite round would consist of 24 teams, drawn into six groups of four teams, with the six group winners and the runner-up with the best record against the first and third-placed teams in their group qualifying for the final tournament. After the qualifying round draw was held, UEFA decided to expand the elite round from 24 to 28 teams, allowing four more third-placed teams to advance to the elite round.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Format
The schedule of each mini-tournament is as follows (Regulations Article 20.04):


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
In the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.01):


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 11 November 2016, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Serbia and Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
The qualifying round must be played by 29 October 2017, and on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
Times up to 28 October 2017 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1).


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups, Group 5
Matches of the first matchday were postponed from 17 to 18 October due to wildfires in Portugal.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Ranking of third-placed teams
To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The draw for the elite round was held on 24 November 2017, 11:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group.


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
The elite round must be played on the following FIFA International Match Calendar dates unless all four teams agree to play on another date:


2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship squads
The following is a list of squads for each national team competing at the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Switzerland. Each national team had to submit a squad of 20 players born on or after 1 January 1999.


2018 UEFA Youth League Final
The 2018 UEFA Youth League Final was the final match of the 2017–18 UEFA Youth League, the fifth season of the tournament. It was played at the Colovray Stadium in Nyon, Switzerland on 23 April 2018, between English side Chelsea and Spanish side Barcelona. Barcelona won the match 3–0 to claim their second Youth League title.


2018 UEFA Youth League Final, Road to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).


2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The 2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 93rd year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.


2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The year revolved around two major events, the first was the ongoing battle for broadcasting rights between Satellite Information Services (SIS) and the Arena Racing Company (ARC). The second was the devastating news that Towcester racecourse, headed by Lord Hesketh was put into administration. On 23 August KPMG were appointed as administrators and 134 out of 137 members of staff at the racecourse were made redundant, many having to claim statutory redundancy from the government. The last greyhound meeting was on 12 August.


2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
On 13 November it was announced by the administrators that the racecourse's assets were being sold to a company called Fermor Land LLP. This company was formed on 18 October (26 days before the sale) and is headed by Lord Hesketh's brother-in-law Mark Westropp, a trustee of the Hesketh Family trusts.


2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
Dorotas Wildcat won the last Derby at Towcester and then following a rest came back to win the Eclipse in late November. The Kevin Hutton trained black dog was the first Derby champion to win a competition (post Derby) since Taylors Sky in 2011.


2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
On 9 April bookmakers and betting exchanges informed the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport whether they were going to contribute to the British Greyhound Racing Fund. The fund which is pivotal for the welfare of greyhounds involved in Greyhound Board of Great Britain licensed racing is voluntary and based on the profits. Betfair and Sky Betting & Gaming were the high profile companies that refused to contribute which attracted criticism from the industry.


2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
One month later on 17 May, it was announced by Culture secretary Matt Hancock that betting stakes on fixed-odds betting terminals (known as FOBTs) would be reduced to £2 maximum. Consequently income generated by betting shops could reduce, which could affect the general health of both the horse racing and greyhound racing industries and lead to an uncertain period ahead.


2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Eight ex-Towcester trainers joined Henlow, including Mark Wallis and Nick Savva while Kevin Hutton joined Monmore and Patrick Janssens joined Central Park Stadium. Wallis would go on to extend his record number of wins as Greyhound Trainer of the Year by securing a tenth success and a seventh in succession despite a late challenge from Kevin Hutton.


2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
John Gilburn died after a heart attack aged 65, the Sheffield director was an extremely popular figure within the industry. Former BGRB Chief Executive Geoffrey Thomas also died, he was best known for the 'New Deal', a failed attempt in 2002 to gain a better deal for the tracks from the bookmakers.


2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks
Mildenhall Stadium closed to greyhound racing on 15 January following the ongoing problems experienced by the track, leaving 22 registered stadia with the Greyhound Board of Great Britain. The proposed Swindon Stadium development showed no further progress in relation to a new track layout, new housing now bordered the existing track and it had now passed the three year mark since Clarke Osborne (MD) had informed the greyhound connections that work was due to start.


2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
Mark Wallis won a third Trainers Championship stopping Kevin Hutton from winning a fourth consecutive title. The Other Reg secured the Scottish Greyhound Derby title. Hutton then made amends by winning his first Derby title with Dorotas Wildcat.


2018 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
As a result of the Towcester administration three major events, the ECC Timber Puppy Derby, the Oaks and the TV Trophy were left uncontested in the racing schedule. The rights for the TV Trophy held by Greyhound Board of Great Britain was rescheduled for Crayford in December. Both the Oaks and Puppy Derby received new homes in Swindon and Henlow respectively.


2018 UK Championship
The 2018 UK Championship (also known as the 2018 Betway UK Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 27 November to 9 December 2018. It was the ninth ranking tournament and the first Triple Crown event of the 2018/2019 season. The event was broadcast on BBC Sport and Eurosport in the United Kingdom.


2018 UK Championship
Ronnie O'Sullivan, the defending champion, defeated Mark Allen 10–6 in the final, winning his 7th UK Championship and his 34th ranking event overall. In doing so, he became the first player since Stephen Hendry in 1996 to successfully defend the UK title. O'Sullivan broke Hendry's record for the most Triple Crown titles (18), Steve Davis's record of UK Championship titles (6) and became the second player to defend all Triple Crown tournaments at least once, after Hendry. The win was 25 years after his first UK Championship title as a 17 year old in 1993


2018 UK Championship
Stuart Bingham made the event's highest break of 145 in the first frame of his third round match against David Gilbert.


2018 UK Championship, Prize fund
The total prize money for the event was identical to that of the previous year's event, with the winner earning £170,000 and an overall prize fund of £850,000. The breakdown of prize money and ranking points for this year is shown below:


2018 UK Championship, Prize fund
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £15,000 but was not claimed.


2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary
The 2018 UK Championship began on 27 November 2018. The tournament featured 128 players with no qualification round. All of the matches, up to and including the semi-finals, were played over a single session that was held as best of 11 frame matches, with the final played on 9 December over two sessions in a best of 19 frame match.


2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Early rounds (1–4)
The tournament opened on 27 November 2018 with the first round of 128 players, which saw a number of upsets: most notably twice champion and World number one, Mark Selby, fell to unseeded amateur James Cahill, 3–6; and former champion and ninth seed Shaun Murphy lost by the same scoreline to 120th seed Chen Feilong. Also, 12th seed Ryan Day lost 2–6 to 117th seed Joe O'Connor; 20th seed Anthony McGill lost 5–6 to 109th seed Lu Ning; and 102nd seed Sam Baird came from 1–5 down to beat 27th seed Liang Wenbo 6–5. Thrice champion and fourth seed John Higgins scraped past unseeded amateur Dechawat Poomjaeng 6–5, however, Higgins then lost in the second round 5–6 to Alan McManus.


2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Early rounds (1–4)
The televised portion of the event began on 1 December as the second round got underway. This round saw defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan defeat Ken Doherty 6–5 despite being behind 1–4. Eighth seed Ding Junhui defeated Matthew Selt 6–5. 2018 Northern Ireland Open winner Judd Trump missed a black ball at the end of the tenth frame, which would have clinched a 6–4 win against Dominic Dale, but Trump then triumphed in the deciding frame, 6–5. James Cahill, who defeated world number one Mark Selby in the first round, lost to 64th seed Sunny Akani on another 5–6. Elsewhere in round two, Mark Williams and Barry Hawkins both recorded 6–0 whitewashes of their second round opponents, Daniel Wells and Ian Burns respectively. Hawkins' win was his second consecutive 6–0 win, having defeated his first round opponent Jamie Clarke by the same margin.


2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Early rounds (1–4)
The third round, played from 3 December 2018, saw the competition's last 32 players compete. The lowest ranked player remaining in the competition, Joe O'Connor (ranked 117th), was defeated by England's Joe Perry 2–6. However, 109th seed Lu Ning defeated 13th seed Luca Brecel 6–4. Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated Zhou Yuelong in a whitewash 6–0 to progress to the last 16.


2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Early rounds (1–4)
The fourth round began on 5 December 2018. Defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan progressed to the quarter-finals, defeating Jack Lisowski by a 6–1 scoreline. However, world champion Mark Williams lost to 15th seed Stephen Maguire in a deciding frame, having led 4–0 earlier in the match. Martin O'Donnell (ranked 56th) upset China's eighth seed Ding Junhui by 6–4, and then defeated Judd Trump by the same scoreline to eliminate him from the competition. Tom Ford survived a decider with Lu Ning, the lowest ranked player left in the tournament. Meanwhile, Mark Allen also survived a deciding frame against Neil Robertson to go through to the quarter-finals, after making two consecutive centuries from 4–5 down.


2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Finals (quarter-finals to final)
The event's quarter-finals began on 7 December 2018. The afternoon session saw defending champion O'Sullivan defeat Martin O'Donnell 6–1. This was O'Donnell's first Triple Crown quarter-final. Prior to the 2018/19 season, he had only reached the semi-finals of the 2018 Snooker Shoot Out. World number 21 Joe Perry was defeated by Tom Ford 2–6. This was Ford's first Triple Crown semi-final, and his third semi-final appearance since the 2013 Players Championship. He was runner-up in the 2016 Paul Hunter Classic.


2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Finals (quarter-finals to final)
The second set of quarter-finals took place in the evening and saw Mark Allen defeat Stephen Maguire 6–1. Maguire blamed his loss on the playing conditions, stating that "you can't play good snooker" on the table used. Despite the scoreline, Allen said he felt as though "he didn't play well". In the last quarter-final, 2015 world champion Stuart Bingham defeated Kyren Wilson 6–2. During the match, Bingham attempted a maximum break; he potted fifteen reds and blacks, before missing the yellow ball.


2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Finals (quarter-finals to final)
The semi-finals were played once again as best of eleven frame matches on 8 December 2018. The first semi-final match saw Tom Ford play Ronnie O'Sullivan. Ford won the opening frame of the match, with a break of 68, but lost the remaining six frames of the match, finishing 1–6. O'Sullivan reached the final, his fourth in five years, having declined to enter the UK Championship in 2015. The second semi-final was between Stuart Bingham and Mark Allen. The match finished in favour of Allen, who won 6–5, despite Bingham being ahead 4–2.


2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Finals (quarter-finals to final)
The final was played on 9 December 2018 as a best of 19 frames match, spread over two sessions. It was contested between 2011 UK Championship runner-up Mark Allen and 2017 champion Ronnie O'Sullivan. The first four frames of the final were shared, however, the remaining four frames of the first session were won by O'Sullivan, leaving him 6–2 ahead after the initial session. In the evening session, O'Sullivan won the first frame, before Allen scored the highest break of the final (105), and entered the interval at 4–8 behind. O'Sullivan won the next frame, leaving him one frame from winning the tournament. Allen responded to clinch the next two frames including an attempt at a maximum break, which failed. O'Sullivan compiled a break of 78 in the 16th frame to win the championship.


2018 UK Championship, Tournament summary, Finals (quarter-finals to final)
On winning the event, O'Sullivan overtook the record for both the number of UK Championship wins held by Steve Davis (6), and the total number of Triple Crown events held by Stephen Hendry (18). O'Sullivan's 2018 win was his seventh UK Championship, and nineteenth Triple Crown championship win overall. Of his achievement, O'Sullivan commented, "It's amazing to beat my hero Stephen Hendry's record. He was the ultimate player. I've still got eight world titles to get, so I'm chasing that one," referring to Hendry's greater number of World Snooker Championship victories.


2018 UK Championship, Century breaks
A total of 137 century breaks were made by 61 players during the 2018 UK Championship.


2018 UK Championship, Sponsorship and broadcasting
The event was sponsored by betting company Betway, sponsors of the UK Championship since 2015. The tournament's broadcasters were dependent on country, with the BBC and Eurosport broadcasting across the United Kingdom and Europe respectively. The event was broadcast in China by Superstars Online, and China Central Television. In Hong Kong, NowTV simulcasted the event with additional commentary.


2018 UK Championship, Controversy
During the event, two players Yu Delu and Cao Yupeng, were found guilty of match fixing. World number 52, Yu, was banned for ten years and nine months for fixing five matches over a three-year period. Cao was banned from snooker for six years (with three-and-a-half years suspended) for fixing three matches. The chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, Jason Ferguson, expressed his disappointment, stating that the players involved "risk their careers and they will be caught". World champion Mark Williams has suggested that players found cheating "should get banned for life".


2018 UK Championship, Controversy
Ronnie O'Sullivan, who is critical of the number of events on the calendar and the punishing tour schedule, said he was ready to start a "breakaway tour" which would be separate from the World Snooker Tour. He stated that he would ask "four or five unhappy players", including Stephen Hendry and John Higgins, to start a new "Champions League-style" tour. He also indicated that he would invite players that were banned from World Snooker, including Yu and Cao. O'Sullivan insisted that the breakaway tour would benefit everybody, including the bottom-ranked players, but that his plan was a "last resort".


2018 UK Championship, Controversy
In response, World Snooker chairman, Barry Hearn called the plan "nonsensical", and "damaging" to the sport. Hearn also fielded criticism of the current tour schedule from players of all levels, including world champion Mark Williams, Stephen Maguire and Neil Robertson.


2018 UK Championship, Aftermath
During the final, a draw was made for the 2019 Masters in January. The event would see first round matches between Mark Allen and Luca Brecel, and between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stuart Bingham. Six weeks later, the 2019 Masters was won by Judd Trump, who defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final on 20 January 2019.


2018 UK Championship, Aftermath
The next event of the season, the 2018 Scottish Open, began on 10 December, the day after the final of the UK Championship. O'Sullivan pulled out of the event hours after winning the UK Championship before his first round match with Daniel Wells. Having been given a bye through the first round, Wells  reached his first ranking event semi-final, building a 4–0 lead against Mark Allen, before eventually losing 5–6. Although O'Sullivan was not a competitor, he attended the Scottish Open to work on Eurosport's coverage of the event.


2018 UK Championship, Aftermath
Allen, after being runner-up at the UK Championship, won the Scottish Open despite stating that he had "disrespected" the tournament. He had consumed alcohol throughout the week, calling his appearance at the final "undeserved"; his highest break in the first four frames of his semi-final was just 24.


2018 UK Independence Party leadership election
The 2018 UK Independence Party leadership election was triggered after members voted to remove Henry Bolton as leader of the UK Independence Party at an extraordinary general meeting held in Birmingham on 17 February 2018. It was the fourth UKIP leadership election in eighteen months. Interim leader Gerard Batten was ultimately elected unopposed as the party's new leader.


2018 UK Independence Party leadership election, Background
After the UK's referendum on EU membership in June 2016 resulted in a vote to leave the European Union, then-leader of UKIP Nigel Farage announced his resignation. In September 2016, Diane James was elected to succeed him, but resigned after 18 days, triggering another leadership election. Held in November 2016, it was won by Paul Nuttall. Nuttall led the party into the 2017 UK general election, but resigned after UKIP's vote share fell from 12.6% to 1.8% and the party failed to win any parliamentary seats.


2018 UK Independence Party leadership election, Background
Henry Bolton was elected to succeed Nuttall in September 2017. In January 2018, UKIP's NEC passed a motion of no confidence in Bolton, following controversy about his personal life. Bolton refused to step down, which triggered an emergency general meeting. This meeting was held on 17 February 2018, and those attending voted by 867 votes to 500 to remove him as leader. Gerard Batten took over as interim leader and the leadership election had to be held within 90 days, before 18 May 2018.


2018 UK Independence Party leadership election, Background
Bill Etheridge, an MEP who had twice stood for the leadership previously, initially announced his intention to stand again, but then withdrew to support Batten.


2018 UK Independence Party leadership election, Background
Batten proposed, in order to avoid the expense of a leadership election, that he be elected uncontested to serve a 12-month term. The Guardian understood that the party was trying to ensure an uncontested leadership election by raising financial and membership requirements.


2018 UK Independence Party leadership election, Result
Batten was elected unopposed, and announced he would resign in 12 months' time.


2018 UK Music Video Awards
The 2018 UK Music Video Awards were held on 25 October 2018 to recognise the best in music videos from United Kingdom and worldwide. The nominations were announced on 27 September 2018.


2018 UK Music Video Awards, Video genre categories
Florence + The Machine - "Big God"  (Director: Autumn de Wilde)


2018 UK Music Video Awards, Video genre categories
Badbadnotgood ft. Samuel T. Herring - "I Don't Know"  (Director: Will Mayer)


2018 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and technical categories
King Krule - "Biscuit Town"  (Production Designer: Francesca Di Mottola)


2018 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and technical categories
Years & Years - "If You're Over Me"  (Stylist (wardrobe): Nick Royal)


2018 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and technical categories
Florence + the Machine - "Big God"  (Choreographers: Akram Khan, Florence Welch)


2018 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and technical categories
Chaka Khan - "Like Sugar"  (Colourist: Simon Bourne at Framestore)


2018 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and technical categories
Chaka Khan - "Like Sugar"  (Editor: Fouad Gaber at Trim)


2018 UK Music Video Awards, Craft and technical categories
Father John Misty - "Please Don't Die"  (Animators: Cadi Catlow & Henry Nicholson)


2018 UK Music Video Awards, Live and interactive categories
Justin Timberlake ft. Chris Stapleton - "Say Something"  (Director: Arturo Perez jr.)


2018 UK Music Video Awards, Live and interactive categories
Biffy Clyro - MTV Unplugged (Live at Roundhouse, London)  (Director: Sam Wrench)


2018 UK Open
The 2018 Coral UK Open was a darts tournament staged by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was the sixteenth year of the tournament where, following numerous regional qualifying heats throughout Britain, players competed in a single elimination tournament to be crowned champion. The tournament was held for the fifth time at the Butlin's Resort in Minehead, England, between 2–4 March 2018, and has the nickname, "the FA Cup of darts" as a random draw was staged after each round until the final.


2018 UK Open
Peter Wright was the defending champion after defeating Gerwyn Price 11–6 in the 2017 final, but lost in the third round to Nathan Rafferty. Gary Anderson became the UK Open champion for the first time, defeating Corey Cadby (who was making his debut in the event) 11–7 in the final.


2018 UK Open
Michael van Gerwen's defeat to Jeffrey de Zwaan in the third round was the first time van Gerwen had lost a live match on ITV since the 2014 Players Championship Finals. Van Gerwen was unbeaten for 77 live matches (including the two live World Series events) on the channel during that period.


2018 UK Open
The tournament was severely affected by the extreme weather conditions caused by Storm Emma which had forced the complete cancellation of round five of the 2018 Premier League Darts that had been due to be held in Exeter the evening before the tournament started. Eleven players who were due to play in the first, second and third rounds withdrew from the competition, and on 2 March, the unprecedented decision was taken by Butlin's to not allow any fans apart from the players relatives, guests and friends into the venue, resulting in the whole tournament being played behind closed doors.


2018 UK Open
The tournament was still televised live on ITV4, but the Butlin's Skyline Pavilion Arena was unable to be used for the allocated Main Stage TV matches due to heavy snow and ice, so these matches were reallocated to the secondary Red's Bar stage.


2018 UK Open, Format and qualifiers, UK Open Qualifiers
There were six qualifying events staged in February 2018 to determine the UK Open Order of Merit Table. The tournament winners were:


2018 UK Open, Format and qualifiers, UK Open Qualifiers
The tournament is featuring 128 players. The results of the six qualifiers shown above will be collated into the UK Open Order Of Merit. The top 32 players in the Order of Merit receive a place at the final tournament. In addition, the next 64 players (without ties in this year's edition) in the Order of Merit list qualify for the tournament, but start in the earlier rounds played on the Friday. A further 32 players qualify via regional qualifying tournaments.


2018 UK Open, Format and qualifiers, Number 65-96 of the Order of Merit qualifiers (starting in First Round)
** René Berndt dropped out of the tournament because of health reasons.


2018 UK Open, Format and qualifiers, Rileys qualifiers (starting in First Round)
32 amateur players qualified from 28 Rileys Sports Bar qualifiers held across the UK between 20 January and 18 February.


2018 UK Open, Format and qualifiers, Rileys qualifiers (starting in First Round)
* Due to extreme weather, multiple players pulled out of the tournament.


2018 UK Open, Prize money
The prize fund stayed the same as last year, £350,000.


2018 UK Open, Draw
(Note: Due to extreme weather all matches in the tournament were played behind closed doors)


2018 UK Open, Draw, Friday 2 March, First round (best of eleven legs)
** René Berndt withdrew from the tournament because of health reasons.


2018 UK Open, Draw, Friday 2 March, Second round (best of eleven legs)
* Due to Storm Emma and severe wintry conditions across the country, multiple players pulled out of the tournament.


2018 UK Open, Draw, Friday 2 March, Third round (best of nineteen legs)
* Lerchbacher was the only Third Round qualifier to withdraw from the tournament due to the weather conditions, so Hughes received a bye to the Fourth Round.


2018 UK Open Qualifier 1
The 2018 UK Open Qualifier 1 was the first of six UK Open Qualifier events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 2 February. It featured a field of 248 players and £60,000 in prize money, with £10,000 going to the winner. It was won by Michael van Gerwen.


2018 UK Open Qualifier 1
Adrian Lewis was later suspended by the PDC, due to an incident which took place during his 6–5 win over Jose Justicia in the quarter-finals.


2018 UK Open Qualifier 2
The 2018 UK Open Qualifier 2 was the second of six UK Open Qualifier events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour darts competition. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 3 February. It featured a field of 252 players and £60,000 in prize money, with £10,000 going to the winner. It was won by Michael van Gerwen.


2018 UK Open Qualifier 3
The 2018 UK Open Qualifier 3 was the third of six UK Open Qualifier events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 4 February 2018. It featured a field of 252 players and £60,000 in prize money, with £10,000 going to the winner. The winner was Michael Smith.


2018 UK Open Qualifier 4
The 2018 UK Open Qualifier 4 was the fourth of six UK Open Qualifier events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 9 February 2018. It featured a field of 256 players and £60,000 in prize money, with £10,000 going to the winner. The winner was Gary Anderson.


2018 UK Open Qualifier 5
The 2018 UK Open Qualifier 5 was the fifth of six UK Open Qualifier events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 10 February 2018. It featured a field of 256 players and £60,000 in prize money, with £10,000 going to the winner. It was won by Corey Cadby.


2018 UK Open Qualifier 6
The 2018 UK Open Qualifier 6 was the sixth of six UK Open Qualifier events on the 2018 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 11 February 2018. It featured a field of 247 players and £60,000 in prize money, with £10,000 going to the winner. It was won by Krzysztof Ratajski.


2018 UK Seniors Championship
The 2018 UK Seniors Championship (sponsored by Credit Risk Solutions) was a senior snooker tournament, that took place at the Bonus Arena in Hull, England, from 24 to 25 October 2018. It was the first event of the 2018/2019 World Seniors Tour.


2018 UK Seniors Championship
Jimmy White was the defending champion, but he lost 0–3 to Suchakree Poomjang in the quarterfinals. Ken Doherty won the event, defeating Brazil's Igor Figueiredo in the final 4–1.


2018 UK Seniors Championship
In addition to the winner's cheque the champion secured a place in the qualifying tournament for the 2019 World Professional Snooker Championship in Sheffield.


2018 UKIP Wales leadership election
The 2018 UKIP Wales leadership election was a leadership election to determine the UK Independence Party's next leader in the National Assembly for Wales. The election was held from 18 June to 10 August 2018. The approximately 900 members of the party in Wales were eligible to vote in the election.


2018 UKIP Wales leadership election
After the 2016 Welsh Assembly election, Neil Hamilton was elected leader of the UK Independence Party group in the Assembly, replacing Nathan Gill. Hamilton had been supported by four AMs, whilst Gill had been supported by three.


2018 UKIP Wales leadership election
In May 2018, Caroline Jones replaced Hamilton after a majority vote in the then five-strong Assembly group.


2018 UKIP Wales leadership election
In June 2018, national deputy party leader Mike Hookem informed the group that an election would be held for the leadership of the Assembly group.


2018 UKIP Wales leadership election
Gareth Bennett won the UKIP Welsh Assembly leadership election on 10 August 2018. Hamilton remained as Leader of the UK Independence Party in Wales, with Bennett serving as Leader of UKIP in the Welsh Assembly.


2018 UKIP Wales leadership election, Campaign
The party increased the franchise for the election, changing to a twenty-eight-day cutoff instead of the originally planned for a six-month cut-off. This increased the number of eligible voters by about 300 to "just short of 900". The vote had been scheduled to conclude by the end of July, but the count was moved to 10 August following issues printing ballots.


2018 UKIP Wales leadership election, Campaign
Bennett's two main policy planks were his campaign to abolish the Welsh Assembly itself (he called for a referendum on the issue); and his opposition to the Welsh Government's Welsh language policies.


2018 UKIP Wales leadership election, Results
514 of the party's 876 members voted. Caroline Jones was eliminated in the first round with 130 votes. Gareth Bennett went on to win the second round, with 269 votes to Neil Hamilton's 193.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game
On March 16, 2018, during the first round of the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, the University of Virginia (Virginia; also UVA) Cavaliers played a college basketball game against the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Retrievers at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Cavaliers, who were seeded first in the South regional bracket and first overall in the NCAA Tournament, faced the Retrievers, who were seeded 16th in the South regional bracket. Virginia and UMBC competed for the right to face ninth-seeded Kansas State, which had already won their first-round game against Creighton earlier in the day.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game
The Retrievers defeated the Cavaliers 74–54, becoming the first No. 16 seed to defeat a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. It was only the second time in college basketball overall, after No. 16 seeded Harvard defeated overall No. 1 Stanford in the women's tournament twenty years earlier. UMBC also earned its first NCAA Tournament win in school history.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game
With Virginia set as a 20.5 point favorite heading into the game, UMBC's victory was the second-biggest upset in terms of point spread in NCAA Tournament history behind Norfolk State's defeat of Missouri in 2012 when Missouri was a 21.5 point favorite. Virginia finished their season at 31–3 while UMBC improved to 25–10.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game
UMBC coach Ryan Odom grew up as a Virginia fan, the son of former UVA assistant coach Dave Odom, and recalls the experience of being in attendance to cheer on the Cavaliers as they advanced to the Final Four in 1984.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Background
At the start of this game, NCAA Tournament No. 16 seeds were 0–135 all-time against No. 1 seeds since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Background, UMBC
UMBC entered its 2017–18 season under second-year head coach Ryan Odom. A preseason America East Conference coaches' poll picked the Retrievers to finish third in their league, and incoming senior Jairus Lyles earned Preseason All-Conference honors. The team completed the regular season with a 24–10 record and a second-place finish in the America East. Senior guards Jairus Lyles, who averaged a team-high 20.3 points per game, and K. J. Maura were named First-Team and Third-Team All-Conference respectively, with the latter earning America East Defensive Player of the Year accolades.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Background, UMBC
On March 10, 2018, UMBC won the 2018 America East Tournament after Lyles made a three-pointer with 0.6 seconds left to defeat top-seeded Vermont in the championship game. The win handed the Retrievers an automatic NCAA Tournament berth, their second appearance ever and their first since 2008, when they suffered a 66–47 loss to Georgetown in their opening game. It also gave UMBC its 24th win of the season, tied for most in program history. Before the team's NCAA Tournament opener against Virginia, guard-forward Joe Sherburne said, "We know we can go out there and have fun and play hard, and we really don't have anything to lose, so it'll be we go out there and play loose."


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Background, Virginia
In a rebuilding year under head coach Tony Bennett, Virginia had entered the season unranked but proceeded to win the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) regular season championship outright by four games over pre-season AP No. 1 Duke, finishing 17–1 in conference play including Bennett's first win at Cameron Indoor Stadium. They then capped an improbable ascendancy by defeating North Carolina in the ACC Tournament championship, finishing the regular season 31–2. Virginia entered the tournament seeded first overall.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Background, Virginia
Two days before the UMBC game, the Cavaliers lost their future NBA lottery pick, forward De'Andre Hunter, to a season-ending left wrist fracture. The injury led the New York Daily News to change their pick from Virginia winning the national championship to not advancing out of the Sweet Sixteen.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Venue
The game was played at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The attendance for the game was 17,943. Spectrum Center had previously hosted the tournament in 2008, 2011, and 2015.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Broadcast
The game was televised nationally on TNT and announced by Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, and Grant Hill, with Tracy Wolfson as their sideline reporter. The game was played after the conclusion of the Kansas State–Creighton game, which took place in the same venue. The game had 3.53 million viewers, with a 94% and 54% increase in viewership compared to the 2016 and 2017 games in the same slot.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Game summary
The game started defensively with the first half having four separate ties. UMBC did not lead until just before the midpoint of the half, before a Virginia steal tied the game up for the second time. Virginia went on a 7–1 run over a four-minute period to hold a six-point lead late in the first half before UMBC managed to tie the game at 16–16 before the final TV timeout of the half. UMBC took the lead twice before halftime, but Virginia was able to tie the game up at both points.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Game summary
Coming out of halftime, the Retrievers went on an early 7–2 run before Virginia used their first of three remaining timeouts of the game. Despite the timeout, a 6–2 run before the first TV timeout of the half gave the Retrievers an 11-point lead. Another UMBC run of 10–4 would force the Cavaliers to use a second timeout. An 11–7 run by Virginia allowed them to get within 12 points before UMBC was forced to use their timeout. Both teams would stall as only eight combined points were scored by both teams before the Retrievers' second timeout.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Game summary
A 5–0 run by UMBC within a minute forced Virginia to use their final timeout. Despite the break, fouls by Virginia contributed to UMBC making four free throws and scoring a layup on a missed free throw, which allowed the lead to be extended to 19 points. The final two minutes would see the Retrievers extend their lead by another point to finish the game 74–54.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Game summary
The Cavaliers, who led the NCAA during the season in scoring defense at 53.4 points per game, were outscored by the Retrievers 53–33 in the final twenty minutes. The twenty point loss was the largest deficit the Cavaliers suffered their entire season. It was also the only time they allowed at least 70 points that season. UMBC's Jairus Lyles, who scored 28 points while battling through cramps late in the second half, was named the game's Most Valuable Player.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption
Immediately after the game in an interview, Virginia coach Tony Bennett remarked,


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption
"That was not even close. That’s first a credit to the job Ryan did, coach Odom. Their offense was very hard to guard. They shot it well. We kept getting broken down and did a poor job. ... We had a hard time with their mobile fours and their four guards. I don’t know what to say but that. That was a thorough butt whipping."


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption
"This is life. It can't define you. You enjoyed the good times and you gotta be able to take the bad times. When you step into the arena... the consequences can be historic losses, tough losses, great wins, and you have to deal with it. And that's the job."


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption
This reaction by Bennett after the game was featured in Inc. magazine as a lesson in emotional intelligence and leadership. After the win, Odom said, "Unbelievable — it’s really all you can say."


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption
UMBC advanced to the Round of 32, in which they faced 9-seed Kansas State Wildcats on March 18, 2018. The game was competitive, with neither team having a lead greater than nine points throughout the game, and UMBC trailing by only three points with two minutes remaining in the game. The Wildcats won the game 50–43, thus ending UMBC's one-game Cinderella run.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption
The first round losses by No. 1 seed Virginia and No. 4 seed Arizona, and second round losses by No. 2 seed Cincinnati and No. 3 seed Tennessee, led to the South Region becoming the first ever to not advance any of its top four seeds to the Sweet Sixteen. Another Cinderella, No. 11 seed Loyola-Chicago, won the region by beating Kansas State 78–62, becoming the fourth 11-seed ever to advance to the Final Four.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption
Following the season, two members of the Retrievers staff became head coaches. Assistant coach Eric Skeeters took over the Delaware State program, while director of recruiting Griff Aldrich took over Longwood. Delaware State and Longwood met in the 2018–19 season, with the host team Longwood winning 89–73. Aldrich then led Longwood to their first ever Division I postseason appearance in the 2019 College Basketball Invitational, and was named a finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award (given for most outstanding first-year head coach), which had been won by Odom in 2017. A member of the Virginia coaching staff, Ron Sanchez, also left to become a new head coach as he took over the Charlotte 49ers in the same city the UMBC game was played in.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption
In 2018–19, Virginia again led the Atlantic Coast Conference standings and attained another No. 1 seed. Virginia trailed by as many as 14 points to No. 16 seed Gardner-Webb in the first half and still trailed by 6 (36–30) at halftime, before the Cavaliers poured it on and outscored the Runnin' Bulldogs 41–14 in the first nineteen minutes of the second half. Virginia went on to win the 2019 NCAA Tournament Championship in dramatic fashion, becoming the first first-time winner of the national championship since Florida thirteen years prior.


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption
UMBC, meanwhile, lost to Vermont in the championship game of the America East conference tournament, ending their hopes for an immediate return to the tourney. In a show of sportsmanship, the official UMBC athletics Twitter account celebrated Virginia's dramatic victory over Purdue in the Elite Eight. ESPN called Virginia's 2018–19 championship run "the most redemptive season in the history of college basketball." NBC Sports called Virginia's 2018–19 NCAA title the "greatest redemption story in the history of sports."


2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game, Aftermath and redemption
Following the championship game, veteran CBS Sports announcer Jim Nantz (who also called Virginia's upset loss to UMBC in last year's first round tournament game), called Virginia's win the "all-time turnaround title." De'Andre Hunter (who missed the UMBC game with the broken wrist) was drafted #4 as a lottery pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, as Ty Jerome and Kyle Guy also left early and were drafted as well.


2018 UMass Minutemen football team
The 2018 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This was the fifth year of head coach Mark Whipple's second stint at UMass and 11th year overall. The Minutemen divided their home schedule between two stadiums. Five home games were played at the UMass campus at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium with one home game at Gillette Stadium. This was UMass's third year as an independent. They finished the season 4–8.


2018 UMass Minutemen football team
On November 21, head coach Mark Whipple resigned. He finished with a record of 16–44 in the five years of his second stint as head coach and 65–70 in his eleven overall seasons. On December 3, the school hired Florida State offensive coordinator Walt Bell for the head coaching job.


2018 UMass Minutemen football team, Schedule
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2018 UMass Minutemen football team, Game summaries, Duquesne
The Minutemen's game against Duquesne was the first of the 2018 college football season, kicking off 90 minutes before Prairie View A&M–Rice.


2018 UNAF U-15 Tournament
The 2018 UNAF U-15 Tournament is the second edition of the UNAF U-15 Tournament. The tournament took place in Algeria from 11 to 15 April 2018. The start of the tournament was scheduled for 11 April but was postponed to 12 April.


2018 UNAF U-15 Tournament (Tunisia)
The 2018 UNAF U-15 Tournament (Tunisia) was the third edition of the UNAF U-15 Tournament. The tournament took place in Tunisia from 3 to 7 November 2018.


2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament
The 2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament is the 15th edition of the UNAF U-17 Tournament. The tournament took place in Tunisia from 20 to 28 August 2018. This edition serve as a qualification for the Africa U-17 Cup of Nations, the winner will qualify for the 2019 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations held in Tanzania.


2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament, Match officials
The following referees were chosen for the 2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament.


2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament (Morocco)
The 2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament was the 16th edition of the UNAF U-17 Tournament. The tournament took place in Marrakesh, Morocco, from 20 to 27 December, 2018.


2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament squads
The 2018 UNAF U-17 Tournament is an international football tournament hosted by Tunisia from 20 to 28 August 2018.


2018 UNAM protests
The 2018 UNAM student movement began on August 27, 2018 with the protests of the Azcapotzalco College of Sciences and Humanities in Mexico (CCH Azcapotzalco), where they demanded solutions to the problems of both their campus and the CCH in general. The On August 31, the principal of the campus resigned from her position due to the repression of the demands, but when not all were met, the students took over the facilities.


2018 UNAM protests
On September 3, the CCH Azcapotzalco, the CCH Oriente and the CCH Naucalpan carried out a mobilisation in Ciudad Universitaria to deliver a petition to the authorities, where they were later attacked and dispersed by a group of 40 people with knives, which resulted in at least 14 injuries. After the acts, at least 40 UNAM campuses in Mexico went on strike for 48 to 72 hours in protest. Protesters rallied in support of the students in the campus in other areas nationwide, mainly Mexico City.


2018 UNAM protests
On September 5, a rally was organized in the rectory of UNAM for the events that occurred on September 3, where both institutions and organizations of the UNAM and others attended in the form of support. On 7 September Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president-elect of Mexico, met with the rector of UNAM Enrique Graue, to discuss the problems of the institutions and possible solutions.


2018 UNAM protests
On September 13, a march was called to commemorate the March of Silence that took place in 1968. On October 2, a march commemorating the Tlatelolco Massacre was held, which culminated in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas.


2018 UNCAF U-16 Tournament
The 2018 UNCAF U-16 Tournament was the 8th UNCAF U-16 Tournament, a biennial international football tournament contested by men's under-16 national teams. Organized by UNCAF, the tournament took place in Guatemala between 20 and 27 October 2018.


2018 UNCAF U-16 Tournament
The matches were played at Estadio Municipal Pinula Contreras. All seven Central American teams took part of the tournament, playing each other in a round-robin format. Panama won their first title.


2018 UNCAF U-17 Interclub Cup
The 2018 UNCAF U-17 Interclub Cup was the 1st edition of the UNCAF U-17 Interclub Cup, Central America's under-17 club football tournament organized by UNCAF.


2018 UNCAF U-17 Interclub Cup, Teams
Seven teams participated in the tournament. Honduras sent a national representative.


2018 UNCAF U-19 Tournament
The 2018 UNCAF U-19 Tournament is a football competition scheduled to take place in August 2018.


2018 UNCAF U-19 Tournament
It is to prepare teams for the 2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.


2018 UNCAF Women's Interclub Championship
The 2018 UNCAF Women's Interclub Championship (Spanish: 2018 Copa Interclubes Femenina de UNCAF) was the third edition of the UNCAF Women's Club Championship, Central America's premier women's club football organized by UNCAF. The tournament was played in Panama City, Panama between 24 and 29 September 2018.


2018 UNCAF Women's Interclub Championship
Moravia from Costa Rica are the two-time defending champions. All games were 70 minutes in duration.


2018 UNCAF Women's Interclub Championship, Teams
For the first time, all seven UNCAF associations entered the tournament, with each association entering one team.


2018 UNCAF Women's Interclub Championship, Venues
All matches were played at the Estadio Maracaná in Panama City.


2018 UNCAF Women's Interclub Championship, Group stage
The seven teams were divided into two groups: one group of four teams and one group of three teams. The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals.


2018 UNLV Rebels football team
The 2018 UNLV Rebels football team represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Rebels were led by fourth-year head coach Tony Sanchez and played their home games at Sam Boyd Stadium. They were members of the West Division of the Mountain West Conference. They finished the season 4–8 and 2–6 in Mountain West play to finish in fifth place in the West Division.


2018 UNLV Rebels football team, Previous season
The Rebels finished the 2017 season 5–7 and 4–4 in Mountain West play to finish in third place in the West Division.


2018 UNLV Rebels football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days
During the Mountain West media days held July 24–25 at the Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip, the Rebels were predicted to finish in third place in the West Division.


2018 UNLV Rebels football team, Preseason, Mountain West media days, Preseason All-Mountain West Team
The Rebels had one player selected to the preseason all-Mountain West team.


2018 US Darts Masters
The 2018 William Hill US Darts Masters was the second staging of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was the second event in the 2018 World Series of Darts. The tournament featured 16 players (8 PDC representatives and 8 North American representatives) and was held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on 6–7 July 2018.


2018 US Darts Masters
Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion after defeating Daryl Gurney 8–6 in the 2017 final. However, he lost 8–3 in the quarter-finals to James Wade.


2018 US Darts Masters
Gary Anderson won his sixth World Series title after beating Rob Cross 8–4 in the final.


2018 US Darts Masters, Qualifiers
The top 4 North American Order of Merit qualifiers were:


2018 US Open (tennis)
The 2018 US Open was the 138th edition of tennis' US Open and the fourth and final Grand Slam event of the year. It was held on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City.


2018 US Open (tennis)
Rafael Nadal and Sloane Stephens were the defending champions in the men's and women's singles events, however both failed to  defend their titles. Nadal retired during his semifinal match against Juan Martín del Potro. Stephens was defeated in the quarterfinals by Anastasija Sevastova, whom Stephens had beaten at the same stage the previous year.


2018 US Open (tennis)
Novak Djokovic won the men's singles title, defeating del Potro in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–4), 6–3. It was his third US Open title and 14th Grand Slam, tying Pete Sampras' record to become equal third among all-time Grand Slam champions. In women's singles, Naomi Osaka defeated Serena Williams in the final, 6–2, 6–4, becoming Japan's first ever able-bodied Grand Slam singles champion.


2018 US Open (tennis), Tournament
The 2018 US Open was the 138th edition of the tournament and took place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park of Queens in New York City, New York, United States. The tournament was held on 17 DecoTurf hard courts.