2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
The 2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018. It occurred concurrently with a Senate election in the state, elections to the state's U.S. House seats, and various other elections. Incumbent Republican Governor Scott Walker sought re-election to a third term, and was challenged by Democratic candidate and then-Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers, as well as Libertarian Phil Anderson and independent Maggie Turnbull. Evers, along with his running mate Mandela Barnes, managed to defeat Walker and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch in a closely fought and widely watched race, ending unified Republican control of the state.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
The result was considered "too close to call" on election night, with Walker and Evers being separated by a mere few hundred votes for much of the night as counties reported their results. Shortly after midnight on November 7, Milwaukee County reported around 46,000 late absentee ballots. From those late ballots, Evers received 38,674 votes, or 84% of the total, and Walker 7,181, giving Evers a decisive lead. The race was called for him shortly after.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
Wisconsin was the only state in the 2018 gubernatorial election cycle to elect a Democratic governor while voting more Republican than the national average. With a margin of 1.1%, this election was also the second-closest race of the 2018 gubernatorial election cycle, behind only the election in Florida. Walker was one of two Republican incumbent governors to be defeated for re-election in 2018, the other being Bruce Rauner in neighboring Illinois, who had lost decisively to J.B. Pritzker.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Governor
The primary election for the Democratic nomination featured a crowded field of candidates. The race was ultimately won by Tony Evers with around 40% of the vote.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Governor, Polling
An asterisk (*) denotes that a candidate withdrew before the primary but remains on the ballot.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Lieutenant Governor
Mandela Barnes, a former state representative from Milwaukee, defeated opponent Kurt Kober by a 2 to 1 margin for the nomination, becoming the first African American to be nominated by a major party for a Wisconsin gubernatorial ticket.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, General election
Despite the fact that Scott Walker had won three prior races for Governor in 2010, 2012, and 2014 by fairly comfortable margins, his bid for a third term was complicated by rising unpopularity due to his policies concerning public education and infrastructure. Walker also faced backlash for a deal his administration made with Taiwanese company Foxconn in 2017 to create jobs in the state in exchange for around $4.5 billion in taxpayer subsidies.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, General election
In 2018, the deal resulted in around $90 million of funding for roads being diverted to a stretch of I-94 that was set to be near a future Foxconn plant from the rest of state. The poor condition of many roads around the state as well as the lack of work being done to redo them prompted a campaign where potholes were being labeled as “Scott”-holes.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, General election
Walker's approval ratings were hobbled further by the unpopularity of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump in Wisconsin. Walker himself sounded the alarm on this several times in early 2018 after Democrats won two special elections to the Wisconsin State Senate in typically Republican districts and an election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. In April 2018, Walker warned that Wisconsin was “at risk of a blue wave“ in November. The Walker campaign generally focused on promoting the popular parts of his record, such as a freeze on tuition at public universities and record low unemployment.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, General election
The result was expected to be close, with a record $93 million spent on the race by the two major campaigns and special interest groups from in and out of the state. In the end, Walker was ultimately defeated by Democrat Tony Evers, who garnered a slightly more than 1% margin of victory, as Democrats swept every statewide race up for election.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Aftermath
Despite the close result, Scott Walker was unable to request a recount due to a law he had signed himself two years prior, which requires the margin of difference to be within 1%.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Aftermath, Lame duck legislative session
Early in December 2018, a special legislative session was called by Walker to pass a series of bills to limit the powers of Governor-elect Evers, as well as incoming Democratic State attorney general Josh Kaul who had defeated incumbent Brad Schimel.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Aftermath, Lame duck legislative session
Other bills being considered included restrictions on early voting and the passage of Medicaid work requirements, which Walker had previously held off on due to the election. A similar law restricting early voting that was passed several years prior had been ruled as unconstitutional.


2018 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, Aftermath, Lame duck legislative session
The bills were widely denounced by Democrats and others as a “power grab.” Congresswoman Gwen Moore described the move as a “coup” that “hijacked the voters’ will.”  Walker and other Republicans meanwhile argued that the bills were necessary ”checks on power” and that they did not actually strip any real powers from the executive. Lawsuits were filed by Evers and various labor unions almost immediately after Walker signed the bills into law.


2018 Wofford Terriers football team
The 2018 Wofford Terriers football team represented Wofford College in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Josh Conklin and played their home games at Gibbs Stadium. They were a member of the Southern Conference. They finished the season 9–4, 6–2 in SoCon play to finish in a tie for the SoCon championship alongside East Tennessee State and Furman. They received the automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they defeated Elon in the first round before losing in the second round to Kennesaw State.


2018 Wofford Terriers football team, Previous season
The Terriers finished the 2017 season 10–3, 7–1 in SoCon play to win the SoCon championship. They received the SoCon's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Furman in the second round before losing in the quarterfinals to North Dakota State.


2018 Wofford Terriers football team, Previous season
On December 13, 2017, head coach Mike Ayers announced his retirement. He finished at Wofford with a 30-year record of 207–139–1.


2018 Wofford Terriers football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll
The SoCon released their preseason media poll on July 25, 2018, with the Terriers predicted to finish in third place. The same day the coaches released their preseason poll with the Terriers predicted to finish in second place.


2018 Wofford Terriers football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll, Preseason All-SoCon Teams
The Terriers placed nine players at ten positions on the preseason all-SoCon teams.


2018 Woking Borough Council election
The 2018 Woking Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect one third of members to Woking Borough Council in England coinciding with other local elections held across much of England. Elections in each ward are held in three years out of four.


2018 Woking Borough Council election
Woking was one of the boroughs subject to a trial of voter ID restrictions requiring the production of photographic ID or 2 other forms of ID.


2018 Woking Borough Council election, Results
The Conservatives lost one seat to the Liberal Democrats, with Mount Hermon councillor Mark Pengelly losing by a margin of just 17 votes to  Liam Lyons, who had been defeated by Pengelly two years earlier. The Conservatives also failed to win their target seats of Byfleet and St John's by narrow margins, and came within 10 votes of losing in Goldsworth Park, although they held their seats in Horsell, Knaphill, Heathlands and Pyrford with very large majorities.


2018 Woking Borough Council election, Results
The result meant that the Tory majority over all other parties on the council reduced from four to two, so the Conservatives still maintained overall control as they have done since 2007, counting a short period of minority administration. Despite polling 3.2% in the all-out council elections in 2016, the Green Party did not field candidates.


2018 Woking Borough Council election, Results, Ward by ward
Successful incumbents are marked with a green tick: Y, defeated incumbents with a red cross: N


2018 Wokingham Borough Council election
The 2018 Wokingham Borough Council election took place on Thursday 3 May 2018. That was the same day as other United Kingdom local elections in order to elect members of Wokingham Unitary Council in Berkshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed comfortably in overall control of the council.


2018 Wokingham Borough Council election, Background
A total of 60 candidates contested the 18 seats which were up for election.


2018 Wokingham Borough Council election, Background
Since the last round of elections, there had been 1 by-election in Emmbrook in 2017, which was won by the Liberal Democrats. Also, 2 Councillors had left the Conservatives, with one joining the Liberal Democrats and one standing as an Independent.


2018 Wokingham Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservatives retained control of the council. The Liberal Democrats held two out of the three seats they defended, retaining their seats in Emmbrook and Winnersh, but lost a seat in South Lake to the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats gained 2 seats in both Hawkedon and Evendons. Labour gained 2 seats in Bulmershe and Whitegates & Norreys. The Conservatives gained 1 seat in South Lake, but lost 4 seats in Evendons, Norreys, Bulmershe & Whitegates and Hawkedon. 1 seat was held by an Independent.


2018 Wokingham Borough Council election, Election result
There were a total of 40,551 votes cast, including 120 spoiled ballots.


2018 Wolffkran Open
The 2018 Wolffkran Open was a professional tennis tournament played on carpet courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Ismaning, Germany between 15 and 21 October 2018.


2018 Wolffkran Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Wolffkran Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:


2018 Wolffkran Open – Doubles
Marin and Tomislav Draganja were the defending champions but only Tomislav chose to defend his title, partnering Nikola Čačić. Tomislav Draganja lost in the quarterfinals to Rameez Junaid and David Pel.


2018 Wolffkran Open – Doubles
Purav Raja and Antonio Šančić won the title after defeating Junaid and Pel 5–7, 6–4, [10–5] in the final.


2018 Wolffkran Open – Singles
Yannick Hanfmann was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2018 Wolffkran Open – Singles
Filippo Baldi won the title after defeating Gleb Sakharov 6–4, 6–4 in the final.


2018 Women's African Volleyball Clubs Championship
The 2018 Women's African Volleyball Clubs Championship was the 29th edition of the tournament organized by the African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB). It took place between 4 and 15 of March and was held in Cairo, Egypt.


2018 Women's African Volleyball Clubs Championship
CF de Carthage started the competition as defending champions and reached the finals, where they were defeated 3–0 by Al Ahly SC. It was the ninth time Al Ahly won the Women's African Volleyball Clubs Championship title.


2018 Women's African Volleyball Clubs Championship, Group stage
Group winners and runners-up advance to the quarterfinals, groups thirds and fourths advance to the 8th–16th quarterfinals and groups fifth placed teams advance to the 17th–19th play-offs.


2018 Women's Asian Champions Trophy
The 2018 Women's Asian Champions Trophy was the fifth edition of the Women's Asian Champions Trophy, a field hockey tournament for the five best Asian women's national field hockey teams organized by the Asian Hockey Federation.


2018 Women's Asian Champions Trophy
The tournament was held in Donghae, South Korea. The top five Asian teams (China, India, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia) participated in the tournament which involved a round-robin tournament among all teams followed by play-offs for the final positions.


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League
The 2018 Women's Australian Hockey League was the 26th edition of the women's field hockey tournament. The 2018 edition of the tournament was held between 6 – 28 October, and featured a new format from previous editions.


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League
The finals phase of the 2018 tournament was held in the Queensland city of the Gold Coast, from the 25 – 28 October.


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League
NSW Arrows won the tournament for the tenth time, after defeating the QLD Scorchers 7–6 in the gold medal match. Canberra Strikers won the bronze medal after defeating VIC Vipers 2–0 in a penalty shoot-out following a 4–4 draw.


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Competition Format
Unlike previous editions of the Women's Australian Hockey League, the 2018 edition will include a very different format. Instead of the tournament being held at a single venue, the teams will play at least one home and away match during the pool stage, before converging on a singular venue for the Classification Round.


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Competition Format
The teams will be divided into two Pool A and Pool B, both consisting of four teams, with each team playing each other once. The teams will then progress to the Classification round, with each team playing a qualifying match, before progressing to either the fifth to eighth place playoffs, or the first to fourth place playoffs.


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations
As well as a new format, the 2018 AHL brought in new rule innovations from standard international hockey.


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations, Field Goal Conversions
When a field goal is scored the same athlete will have an automatic one-on-one shootout with the goalkeeper for an extra goal.


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations, Power Plays
Each team possesses a five-minute Power Play to use at the end of either the second or fourth quarters, when teams are reduced to nine players each and where that team’s goals are worth double.


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations, Power Plays
The allocation of Power Plays will be decided by the team which wins a pre-game coin toss. For example, if the coin toss winner elects to take their Power Play at end of the fourth quarter, the opposition must use at theirs at the end of the second quarter.


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations, Power Plays
In the second and fourth quarters, the clock is initially set for 10 minutes, then re-set for a further five minutes for the Power Play. Play will re-commence with a centre pass taken by the team in possession of the Power Play.


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations, Point Allocation
All matches must have an outright result so drawn matches will be decided in a penalty shoot-out. Match points will be as follows:


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Rule Innovations, Point Allocation
· 5 points for a win· 2 points to each team in the event of a draw· 1 point will be awarded to the winner of the shoot-out· 0 points to the loser of the match


2018 Women's Australian Hockey League, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 155 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 6.46 goals per match.


2018 Women's Bandy World Championship
The 2018 Women's Bandy World Championship was held in China, in the city of Chengde on 9–13 January 2018. This was the IXth Women's Bandy World Championship.


2018 Women's Bandy World Championship
While the record number of participants in previous tournaments is 7, the organisers had thought out measures with the goal to attract 12 participating countries. However, in the end the number of teams were 8, including the debutants Estonia and Switzerland, while Canada declined this year. The matches were be played on naturally frozen ice on the lake at Chengde Mountain Resort.


2018 Women's Bandy World Championship
Sweden and Russia met for the ninth time of nine possible in the final. For the eighth time Sweden won.


2018 Women's Bandy World Championship squads
Below are the squads for the 2018 Women's Bandy World Championship.


2018 Women's Baseball World Cup
The 2018 Women's Baseball World Cup was the 8th edition of the WBSC Women's Baseball World Cup, the biennial international women's baseball world championship tournament. The competition was held in Viera, Florida in the United States from August 22 to August 31, 2018. The 2018 tournament was the first time that the United States hosted the event.


2018 Women's Baseball World Cup, Qualification
In September 2017, the Baseball Federation of Asia held the first Women’s Baseball Asian Cup, a biennial tournament to be held in odd years and serve as a qualifying tournament for the Women’s Baseball World Cup. Six teams competed in the 2017 tournament, from Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Pakistan, and South Korea. Japan won all five of their games to win the tournament and qualify for the World Cup. Chinese Taipei (2nd place), South Korea (3rd place), and Hong Kong (4th place) also qualified.


2018 Women's Baseball World Cup, Teams
For 2016, the number of qualifying teams grew from eight for its 6th edition in 2014 to twelve teams.


2018 Women's Basketball Invitational
The 2018 Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) was a single-elimination tournament consisting of 16 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament or 2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament. The 2018 field was announced on March 13. First round WBI games occurred on March 14 and 15; second-round games were played on March 19 and 20. The tournament semifinals were held March 23 and 24, and the 2018 WBI Championship game was held on March 29. Yale defeated Central Arkansas, 54-50, to become WBI champions.


2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships
The 2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships were the eighth edition of the tournament, held at Kazan, Russia from 24 to 29 July 2018.


2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships
Greece won the title on their first ever participation, defeating Norway in the final.


2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships, Draw
The draw was held on 15 May 2018 at Kazan, Russia.


2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships, Main round, Group I
Points obtained against teams from the same group were carried over.


2018 Women's Beach Handball World Championships, Main round, Group II
Points obtained against teams from the same group were carried over.


2018 Women's British Open
The 2018 Ricoh Women's British Open was played from 2–5 August in England at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club Golf Links in Lancashire. It was the 43rd Women's British Open, the 18th as a major championship on the LPGA Tour, and the fifth at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club.


2018 Women's British Open
Georgia Hall of England shot a final round 67 (−5) to win by two strokes over runner-up Pornanong Phatlum, the 54-hole leader. It was her first major title and she was the first British winner since Catriona Matthew in 2009. It was also the first win on tour (LPGA Tour or Ladies European Tour) for the 22-year-old Hall, the first English winner of the championship in 14 years.


2018 Women's British Open
The event was televised by Golf Channel and NBC Sports in the United States and Sky Sports in the United Kingdom.


2018 Women's British Open, Course layout
Previous lengths of the course for the Women's British Open (since 2001):


2018 Women's British Open, Field
The field was 144 players, and most earned exemptions based on past performance on the Ladies European Tour, the LPGA Tour, previous major championships, or with a high ranking in the Women's World Golf Rankings. The rest of the field earned entry by successfully competing in qualifying tournaments open to any female golfer, professional or amateur, with a low handicap.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
There were 18 exemption categories for the 2018 Women's British Open:


2018 Women's British Open, Field
1. The top 15 finishers (and ties) from the 2017 Women's British Open.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Shanshan Feng (10), Georgia Hall (9), In-Kyung Kim (10,11), Kim Hyo-joo (10,12), Caroline Masson, Anna Nordqvist (10,12), Inbee Park (2,10,11,12), Lizette Salas (10), Jenny Shin, Michelle Wie (2,10,12), Angel Yin


2018 Women's British Open, Field
2. The top 10 Ladies European Tour members in the Women's World Golf Rankings not exempt under (1).


2018 Women's British Open, Field
Aditi Ashok (5), Carlota Ciganda (5,10), Sandra Gal (5), Charley Hull (5,10), Pernilla Lindberg (5,8,12), Azahara Muñoz (5), Su-Hyun Oh (5), Madelene Sagström (5)


2018 Women's British Open, Field
3. The top 30 LPGA Tour members in the Women's World Golf Rankings not exempt under (1) as of 3 July.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
Marina Alex, Brittany Altomare, Chella Choi, Chun In-gee (10,12), Jacqui Concolino, Lindy Duncan, Austin Ernst, Nasa Hataoka (8,10), Brooke Henderson (8,10,12), Wei-Ling Hsu, Mi Jung Hur, Ji Eun-hee (8,10), Ariya Jutanugarn (8,10,11,12), Moriya Jutanugarn (8,10), Danielle Kang (10,12), Cristie Kerr (10), Kim Sei-young (8,10), Katherine Kirk, Ko Jin-young (8,10), Lydia Ko (8,10,12), Jessica Korda (8,10), Nelly Korda, Lee Mi-hyang, Minjee Lee (8,10), Mirim Lee, Brittany Lincicome (8,12), Park Sung-hyun (8,10,12), Ryu So-yeon (8,10,12), Jennifer Song, Amy Yang (10)


2018 Women's British Open, Field
4. The top 25 on the current LET money list not exempt under (1) or (2) as of 3 July.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
Rebecca Artis, Silvia Bañón, Céline Boutier (5,8), Ashleigh Buhai (5,8), Katie Burnett, Lynn Carlsson, Holly Clyburn, Olivia Cowan, Casey Danielson, Julia Engström, Jenny Haglund (8), Caroline Hedwall, Kylie Henry, Noemí Jiménez Martín, Valdis Thora Jonsdottir, Sarah Kemp, Karolin Lampert, Camilla Lennarth, Lin Xiyu, Meghan MacLaren (8), Florentyna Parker, Marianne Skarpnord, Klára Spilková, Anne Van Dam, Astrid Vayson de Pradenne (8), Christine Wolf


2018 Women's British Open, Field
5. The top 40 on the current LPGA Tour money list not exempt under (1) or (3) as of 3 July.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
Nicole Broch Larsen, Laura Davies, Hannah Green, Jaye Marie Green, Caroline Inglis, Megan Khang, Bronte Law, Lee Jeong-eun, Yu Liu, Mo Martin (11), Ally McDonald, Wichanee Meechai, Amy Olson, Ryann O'Toole, Annie Park (8), Park Hee-young, Jane Park, Pornanong Phatlum, Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong, Sarah Jane Smith, Mariah Stackhouse, Angela Stanford, Emma Talley, Kris Tamulis, Ayako Uehara, Mariajo Uribe, Sakura Yokomine


2018 Women's British Open, Field
6. The top five on the current LPGA of Japan Tour (JLPGA) money list not exempt under (1), (2), (3), or (12) as of 3 July.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
Ahn Sun-ju, Mamiko Higa, Misuzu Narita, Eri Okayama, Phoebe Yao


2018 Women's British Open, Field
7. The top two on the current LPGA of Korea Tour (KLPGA) money list not exempt under (1), (2), (3), or (6) as of 3 July.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
8. Winners of any recognised LET or LPGA Tour events in the calendar year 2018.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
9. Winners of the 2017 LET, LPGA, JLPGA and KLPGA money lists.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
10. The top 30 in the Women's World Golf Rankings, not exempt above as of 3 July.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
11. Winners of the Women's British Open, under age 60, provided they are still active.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
12. Winners of the last five editions of the U.S. Women's Open, ANA Inspiration, and Women's PGA Championship, and The Evian Championship.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
13. Winner of the 2017 Japan LPGA Tour Championship Ricoh Cup.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
14. The leading five LPGA Tour members in the 2018 Marathon Classic who have entered the Championship and who are not otherwise exempt.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
15. The leading three LET members in the 2018 Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open, who have entered the Championship and who are not otherwise exempt.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
16. The 2018 Women's Amateur Asia-Pacific champion, 2018 British Ladies Amateur champion, 2017 U.S. Women's Amateur champion, 2017 European Ladies Amateur Championship champion, winner or next available player in the 2017 GB&I Order of Merit, and the Mark H. McCormack Medal holder provided they are still amateurs at the time of the Championship.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
17. Any players granted special exemptions from qualifying by the Championship Committee.


2018 Women's British Open, Field
Qualifiers: Laetitia Beck, Tonje Daffinrud, Ludovica Farina (a), Cloe Frankish, Rachael Goodall, Linn Grant (a), Lydia Hall, Tiffany Joh, Haeji Kang, Frida Kinhult (a), Brittany Marchand, Inci Mehmet, Hollie Muse (a), Robynn Ree, Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras, Sideri Vanova, Ursula Wikström


2018 Women's British Open, Round summaries, First round
Minjee Lee shot a 7-under-par 65 to lead by one stroke over Mamiko Higa. Defending champion In-Kyung Kim shot a 1-under-par 71.


2018 Women's British Open Squash Championship
The Women's Allam British Open 2018 is the women's edition of the 2018 British Open Squash Championships, which is a 2017–18 PSA World Tour event (Prize money : 165,000 $). The event took place at the Airco Arena in Hull in England from 13 to 20 May. Nour El Sherbini won her second British Open trophy, beating Raneem El Weleily in the final.


2018 Women's Challenge Cup
The 2018 RFL Women's Challenge Cup was an English rugby league knockout tournament competed for by 21 teams during the summer of 2018. The competition was won by Leeds Rhinos who beat Castleford Tigers 20–14 in the final at the Halliwell Jones Stadium on 4 August 2018.


2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Second round
The second round ties were all played on 3 June. The shock result of the round was the home defeat of the cup holders, Bradford Bulls, by newly formed team Castleford Tigers.


2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals of the Cup were made on 6 June. Ties were played on 1 July.


2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals was made on 3 July and ties were played 15 July.


2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Challenge Shield
The eight losing teams in the second round entered into a secondary competition, the Challenge Shield. The Shield was won by Bradford Bulls who beat Stanningley 44–16.


2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Challenge Shield, Semi-finals
The draw was made on 3 July and the matches played on 15 July.


2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Finals
The finals of both competitions were played as a doubleheader at Warrington Wolves' Halliwell Jones stadium on Saturday 4 August 2018. In conjunction with broadcasters Proper Sport and BBC Sport the games were streamed live.


2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Finals, Final
Teams: Castleford Tigers: Backs: Tara-Jane Stanley, Maisie Burton, Courtney Pointon, Lacey Owen, Kelsey Gentles, Georgie Hetherington, Olivia Grace, Lucy Eastwood Forwards: Lucy Eastwood, Sinaed Peach, Jasmine Rowley, Katie Hepworth (c), Beth Weir, Georgia RocheInterchanges: Jasmine Cudjoe, Tamzin Renouf, Grace Field, Emma Lumley, Marie Colley, Katie Tordoff, Shannelle Mannion


2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Finals, Final
Leeds Rhinos:Backs: Charlotte Booth, Suze Hill, Sophie Nuttall, Sophie Robinson, Caitlin Beevers, Hanna Butcher, Courtney HillForwards: Amy Johnson, Lois Forsell (c), Danielle Anderson, Aimee Staveley, Manina Spurr, Shannon LacyInterchanges: Frankie Townend, Madison Laverick, Chloe Kerrigan, Rhiannon Marshall, Ellie Oldroyd


2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Finals, Challenge Shield
Teams: Bradford Bulls: Backs: Leah Jones, Adara Telemacque, Savannah Andrade, Jess Courtman, Becky Conlon, Danielle Bose, Amy Boardman Forwards: Lauren Hickey, Chrissi Nettleton, Vicky Rhodes, Shona Hoyle, Heather McDonald, Reegan Walker Interchanges: Hayley Hields, Memphis Jubb, Stacey Greenwood, Stacey Wilson, Amy Hardcastle, Kirsty Maroney (c), Beth Sutcliffe


2018 Women's Challenge Cup, Finals, Challenge Shield
Stanningley: Backs: Hayley Fielding, Allana Walker, Sophie Bickerdyke, Elychia Watson, Lauren Waller, Chloe Wainwright-Morley, Laura Dyson Forwards: Rachael Barker, Grace Ramsden, Lyndsey Cunnett, Jodie Davies (c), Olivia Wood, Demi Fisher Interchanges: Markelle Morgan, Louise Travers, Loren Gregory, Leanne May


2018 Women's County Championship
The 2018 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 22nd cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from the beginning of May to the beginning of June and saw 33 county teams and teams representing Scotland, Wales and the Netherlands compete in a series of divisions. Hampshire Women won the County Championship as winners of the top division with Yorkshire finishing runners-up. The Championship was Hampshire's first and was achieved in their first season in the top division.


2018 Women's County Championship
The tournament was followed by the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup and then by the 2018 Women's Cricket Super League, a professional tournament competed for by franchise teams.


2018 Women's County Championship, Competition format
Teams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned County Champions. Matches were played using a one day format with 50 overs per side.


2018 Women's County Championship, Competition format
The championship works on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the average points of completed games. Points were awarded as follows:


2018 Women's County Championship, Competition format
Win: 10 points + bonus points. Tie: 5 points + bonus points. Loss : Bonus points. Abandoned or cancelled: Match not counted to average. Conceded: -5 points for the side conceding, 10 points for their opponent.


2018 Women's County Championship, Competition format
Bonus points are collected for batting and bowling. The bonus points for each match are retained if the match is completed.


2018 Women's County Championship, Teams
The 2018 Championship was divided into three divisions: Division One and Division Two with eight teams each, and Division Three with 20 teams divided into five groups of four teams.


2018 Women's County Championship, Teams
Teams in Division One and Two played each other once, while teams in each group of Division Three played each other twice.


2018 Women's County Championship, Division Three, Promotion Play-offs
Each of the teams finishing first in the groups in Division Three qualified for a series of promotion play-offs along with Essex who finished sixth in Division Two. The three winning sides will play in Division Two in 2019.


2018 Women's Cricket Super League
The 2018 Women's Cricket Super League, or 2018 Kia Super League for sponsorship reasons, was the third season of the Women's Cricket Super League (WCSL), the semi-professional women's cricket competition in England and Wales. The competition, run by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), consisted of six franchise teams playing in a Twenty20 format. Western Storm were the defending champions.


2018 Women's Cricket Super League
Surrey Stars won the competition, defeating Loughborough Lightning by 66 runs in the final. Smriti Mandhana, an Indian player for Western Storm, was named player of the tournament, after she finished as the tournament's top run-scorer.


2018 Women's Cricket Super League, Competition format
Six teams competed for the T20 title which took place between 22 July and 27 August 2018. The six teams played each other twice in a round robin format, with the top three teams progressing to a Finals Day at the County Ground, Hove.


2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup
The 2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup was the third edition of the Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, an annual European beach soccer championship for women's national teams, organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW). The event was revealed on 28 March 2018.


2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup
Six nations took part in a three-day competition, hosted in the same location as the 2017 edition, Nazaré, Portugal, between 6 and 8 July, alongside stage 2 of the men's 2018 Euro Beach Soccer League.


2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup
England were the defending champions, but failed to progress pass the group stage, ultimately finishing in fourth place. The championship was claimed by Russia, who won the title at their first attempt.


2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Teams
All six teams from the previous edition returned, except for Greece, who were replaced by Russia.


2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Venue
All matches took place at the Estádio do Viveiro on Praia de Nazaré (Nazaré Beach).


2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Venue
The stadium had recently been undergoing redevelopment, increasing its capacity from 1,600 to 2,200. However, one part of the stadium was still awaiting upgrades, meaning the new capacity figure was yet to be fully reached.


2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Draw
The draw took place on June 12, 2018, at BSWW's headquarters in Barcelona. The six teams were split into two groups of three.


2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Draw
Two teams were seeded and automatically allocated to the groups: England, as reigning champions, were allocated to position A1 and Switzerland, as runners up in the last edition, were allocated to B1. The unseeded nations were then drawn to accompany them in the two groups, with placement of the nations alternating back and forth between Groups A and B as each team was drawn out in turn.


2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Group stage
The teams compete in a round robin format. The winners of the groups proceed to contest the final. The respective group runners-up and third placed nations play each other in consolation matches to decide third through sixth place in the final standings.


2018 Women's Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Group stage
Matches are listed as local time in Nazaré, WEST (UTC+1)


2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup
The 2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup was the third edition of the Women's Euro Winners Cup (WEWC), an annual continental beach soccer tournament for women's top-division European clubs. The championship is the sport's version of the UEFA Women's Champions League in association football.


2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup
Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), the tournament was held in Nazaré, Portugal from 28 May till 3 June 2018, in tandem with the larger men's edition.


2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup
The event began with a round robin group stage. At its conclusion, the best teams progressed to the knockout stage, a series of single elimination games to determine the winners, starting with the Round of 16 and ending with the final. Consolation matches were also played to determine other final rankings.


2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup
Havana Shots Aargau of Switzerland were the defending champions, but were knocked out in the quarter-finals by WFC Zvezda of Russia, ultimately finishing in 8th place. WFC Zvezda went on to win their first title, beating Portsmouth Ladies of the England in the final, Pompey's second runners-up finish in a row.


2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Teams
20 teams entered the tournament – all of whom enter straight into the group stage.


2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Teams, Qualification
As per BSWW regulations, qualification for the 2018 WEWC is achieved as follows:


2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Venues
Three venues were used in one host city: Nazaré, Leiria District, Portugal.


2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Squads
Each club must submit a squad of a maximum of 12 players that includes a minimum of two goalkeepers. Players are to be assigned shirt numbers between 1 and 22 (the number 1 must be reserved for a goalkeeper). Three delegates must accompany the players, including at least one medical personnel. A maximum of three foreign players are allowed to be part of the squad. This was later increased to four, however a maximum of three of these players are permitted to play in a match.


2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Draw
The draw for the group stage took place on May 9 at 12:00 local time in Nazaré, Portugal at the Biblioteca Municipal de Nazaré (Nazaré Public Library), conducted by the Mayor of Nazaré, Walter Chicharro, PFP Director Pedro Dias, BSWW Deputy Vice-President, Gabino Renales and BSWW Head of Competitions, Josep Ponset.


2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Draw
The BSWW organising committee decided to split the 20 teams into five groups of four, conducting the draw as follows:


2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Knockout stage
The top three clubs from each group, plus the best fourth placed team advance to the Round of 16.


2018 Women's Euro Winners Cup, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, the clubs compete in single-elimination matches. Consolation matches are also played to determine the final rankings involving the clubs knocked out of each round of the knockout stage.


2018 Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy
The 2018 Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy was the 42nd edition of the women's Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy, Europe's secondary club field hockey tournament organized by the EHF. It was held from 18 to 21 May 2018 at Monkstown Hockey Club in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.


2018 Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy
Holcombe won the tournament after defeating Junior 4–2 in penalties after the final finished a 1–1 draw. Grodno finished third, after defeating Krylatskoye 5–4 in the third place playoff.


2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship
The 2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship was the 19th edition of the tournament. It took place from 19 to 21 January 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.


2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship, Results, Second round, Pool C
The result between the teams from the same preliminary round pool were carried over.


2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II
The 2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II was the 12th edition of the tournament. It was held from 19 to 21 January 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.


2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II
Belgium won the tournament for the first time after topping the pool. Along with Belgium, Austria qualified to the 2020 EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship as the two highest ranked teams.


2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II, Qualified Teams
The following teams, shown with pre-tournament world rankings, participated in the 2018 EuroHockey Indoor Championship II.


2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II, Statistics, Final standings
As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.


2018 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 111 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 5.55 goals per match.


2018 Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships
The  2018 Women’s European Boxing Championships was hosted and organized by the Bulgarian Boxing Association in Asics Arena, Sofia, Bulgaria in 2018. The event was held from 5 to 12 June 2018. The tournament was organized in association with the European Boxing Confederation (EUBC).


2018 Women's European Volleyball League
The 2018 Women's European Volleyball League is the 10th edition of the annual Women's European Volleyball League, which features women's national volleyball teams from 20 European countries.


2018 Women's European Volleyball League
Unlike previous seasons, the tournament will have two divisions: the Golden League, featuring twelve teams, and the Silver League, featuring eight teams.


2018 Women's European Volleyball League
It also acts as the European qualifying competition for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup, securing two vacancies for the tournament that will then serve as the qualifying competition for the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League.


2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship
The 2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship was held from 14 to 27 July 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.


2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship
The Netherlands won their fifth title by defeating Greece 6-4 in the final. Spain captured the bronze medal after a 12-6 win over Hungary.


2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship, Qualification
Twelve teams were allowed to the tournament. The qualification was as follows:


2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship, Format
The twelve teams were split in two groups with six teams each. The first four teams of each group played each other in the quarterfinals in cross group format, the remaining teams played for places nine to twelve.


2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship, Draw
The draw of the tournament took take place on 7 March in Barcelona. The first batch consisted of the teams ranked 1st and 2nd in the 2016 European Championship, the second batch those placed 3rd and 4th, the third batch those placed 5th and 6th. The six remaining teams were placed into the fourth batch.


2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship, Final ranking
Laura Aarts, Maud Megens, Dagmar Genee (C), Sabrina van der Sloot, Iris Wolves, Nomi Stomphorst, Bente Rogge, Vivian Sevenich, Kitty-Lynn Joustra, Ilse Koolhaas, Rozanne Voorvelt, Brigitte Sleeking, Debby Willemsz. Head Coach: Arno Havenga


2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers
2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers are series of qualification tournaments to decide the participants of the 2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship.


2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers, Qualified teams
Teams directly qualified to the 2018 European Water Polo Championship:


2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship Qualifiers, Playoffs
From the qualification rond, six of the seven teams advance to the playoffs. These six teams will face the teams classified 7 to 12 in the latest edition of the tournament, the 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship


2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship squads
This article shows all participating team squads at the 2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship, held in Spain from 14 to 27 July 2018.


2018 Women's European championships international draughts
The 2018 Women's European championships of international draughts were held from 16 to 22 December in Moscow in main program and in superblitz.


2018 Women's European championships international draughts
The winner was Matrena Nogovitsyna, silver was Natalia Shestakova and third was Elena Milshina (all from Russia).


2018 Women's European championships international draughts, Classic tournament, Rules and regulations
Participants played Swiss-system tournament with 9 rounds. To define the places with equal points used of Solkoff truncated coefficient. Time control was 1 hour 20 minutes plus a minute per move.


2018 Women's European championships international draughts, Classic tournament, Participants
47 participants from 8 countries, including, 8 international grandmasters, 11 international masters and 8 masters of the FMJD.


2018 Women's European championships international draughts, Classic tournament, Participants
GMIF — women's international grandmastersMIF — women's international mastersMFF — women's masters of the FMJD


2018 Women's European championships international draughts, Superblitz tournament, Rules and regulations
To define the places with equal points used of Solkoff truncated coefficient.


2018 Women's European championships international draughts, Superblitz tournament, Rules and regulations
Time control was 5 minutes plus 2 seconds per move.


2018 Women's European championships international draughts, Superblitz tournament, Rules and regulations
39 participants from 4 countries, including, 4 international grandmasters, 7 international masters and 7 masters of the FMJD.


2018 Women's Ford National Hockey League
The 2018 Women's Ford National Hockey League was the 20th edition of the women's field hockey tournament. The competition was held in Wellington, New Zealand between 9–23 September.


2018 Women's Ford National Hockey League
North Harbour won the title for the 4th time, defeating Central 2–0 in the final. Midlands finished in third place after winning the third place match 1–0 over Auckland.


2018 Women's Ford National Hockey League, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 115 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 3.59 goals per match.


2018 Women's Four Nations Cup
The 2018 Women's Four Nations Cup was the eighth Hockey Four Nations Cup, an international women's field hockey tournament, consisting of a series of test matches. It was held in Germany, from July 11 to 14, 2018, and featured four of the top nations in women's field hockey.


2018 Women's Four Nations Cup, Competition format
The tournament featured the national teams of Argentina, Netherlands, New Zealand, and the hosts, Germany, competing in a round-robin format, with each team playing each other once. Three points will be awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss.


2018 Women's Herald Sun Tour
The 2018 Women's Herald Sun Tour presented by Let's Go Motorhomes was a women's cycle stage race held in Australia from 30 to 31 January 2018. The 2018 edition was the inaugural edition of the race.


2018 Women's Herald Sun Tour
The race was won by Brodie Chapman, riding for an Australian national team. Chapman soloed to victory in the opening stage, before maintaining her lead in the following day's time trial, won by world champion Annemiek van Vleuten (Mitchelton–Scott). Van Vleuten finished second overall, five seconds down on Chapman, while the podium was completed by Chloe Hosking, 63 seconds behind for the Alé–Cipollini team. Chapman won the mountains classification, Hosking was the winner of the sprints classification, while the Australian national team won the teams classification. Jeanne Korevaar of WaowDeals Pro Cycling won the other jersey, the white jersey, as winner of the young rider classification for under-23 riders.


2018 Women's Herald Sun Tour, Teams
16 teams participated in the 2018 Women's Herald Sun Tour.


2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy
The 2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 23rd and last edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy for women. It was held between 17 and 25 November 2018 in Changzhou, China.


2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy
The Netherlands won the tournament for the seventh time after defeating Australia 5–1 in the final, tying the record of seven titles previously set by Argentina in 2016.


2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy, Host city change
When the FIH unveiled the event hosts for the 2015–2018 cycle, Argentina was chosen to host this tournament. However, in March 2016, the FIH had to terminate all contractual agreements with Argentina as the Argentine Hockey Confederation was unable to fulfil their contractual obligations in regards to television rights, sponsorship and the hosting of events. Changzhou was announced as the host instead.


2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy, Qualification
Alongside the host nation, the defending champions, the last Olympic, World Cup and World League champions qualified automatically. The remaining spots were nominated by the FIH Executive Board, making a total of six competing teams. If teams qualified under more than once criteria, the additional teams were invited by the FIH Executive Board as well.


2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy, Statistics, Awards
The following individual awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.


2018 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 56 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 3.11 goals per match.


2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy
The 2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy was the fifth edition of the women's field hockey tournament. The RaboTrophy was held in Breda from 26 to 30 June 2018, and featured four of the top nations in women's field hockey.


2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy
The Netherlands won the tournament for the third time, defeating Japan 8–2 in the final.


2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy
The tournament was held in conjunction with the Men's FIH Champions Trophy.


2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy, Competition format
The four teams competed in a pool stage, played in a single round robin format. At the conclusion of the pool stage, the top two teams contested the final, while the remaining two competed for third place.


2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy, Officials
The following umpires were appointed by the International Hockey Federation to officiate the tournament:


2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy, Statistics, Final standings
As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.


2018 Women's Hockey RaboTrophy, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 46 goals scored in 8 matches, for an average of 5.75 goals per match.


2018 Women's Hockey Sompo Cup
The 2018 Women's Hockey SOMPO CUP is the first Hockey SOMPO CUP, an international women's field hockey tournament, consisting of a series of test matches. It will be held in Japan, from September 12 to 16, 2018, and will feature four of the top nations in women's field hockey.


2018 Women's Hockey Sompo Cup, Competition format
The tournament featured the national teams of Australia, South Korea, United States, and the hosts, Japan, competing in a round-robin format, with each team playing each other once. Three points were be awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss.


2018 Women's Hockey World Cup
The 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup was the 14th edition of the  Women's Hockey World Cup, a field hockey tournament. It was held from 21 July to 5 August 2018 at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre in London, England.


2018 Women's Hockey World Cup
Defending champions the Netherlands won the tournament for a record eighth time after defeating Ireland 6–0 in the final, who claimed their first World Cup medal. Spain won the third place match by defeating Australia 3–1 to claim their first World Cup medal as well.


2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Bidding
In March 2013, one month after the FIH published the Event Assignment Process Document for the 2014–2018 cycle, Australia, Belgium, England and New Zealand were shortlisted as candidates for hosting the event and were demanded to submit bidding documentation, requirement that eventually Belgium did not meet. In addition one month before the host election, Australia withdrew their application due to technical and financial reasons. England was announced as host on 7 November 2013 during a special ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland.


2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Venue
Also chosen to host the 2015 EuroHockey Nations Championship for men and women, the tournament will be held at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, England. This venue is part of the legacy from the 2012 Summer Olympics as the Riverbank Arena, where the field hockey events took place, which was scaled down and moved to its current location at Lee Valley Park.


2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Qualification
Due to the increase to 16 participating teams, the new qualification process was announced in July 2015 by the International Hockey Federation. Each of the continental champions from five confederations and the host nation received an automatic berth. In addition, the 10/11 highest placed teams at the Semifinals of the 2016–17 FIH Hockey World League not already qualified entered the tournament. The following sixteen teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings, competed in this tournament.


2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Format
The 16 teams were drawn into four groups, each containing four teams. Each team played each other team in its group once. The first-placed team in each group advanced to the quarterfinals, while the second- and third-placed teams in each group go into the crossover matches. From there on a single-elimination tournament was played.


2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Umpires
15 umpires were appointed by the FIH for this tournament.


2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, Goalscorers
There were 126 goals scored in 36 matches, for an average of 3.5 goals per match.


2018 Women's Hockey World Cup squads
This article lists the confirmed squads for the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup tournament to be held in London, England between 21 July and 5 August 2018.


2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships
The 2018 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships was the 20th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Teams participated at several levels of competition. The competition also served as qualifications for the 2019 competition. For the 2018 program there was no relegation, only promotion, to raise the total at the top level up to ten nations.


2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Championship (Top Division)
The tournament was not held due to the 2018 Olympics.


2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division I, Group A
The Group A tournament was held in Vaujany, France, from 8 to 14 April 2018.


2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division I, Group B
The Group B tournament was held in Asiago, Italy, from 8 to 14 April 2018.


2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division II, Group A
The Group B tournament was held in Maribor, Slovenia, from 31 March to 6 April 2018.


2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division II, Group B
The Group B tournament was held in Valdemoro, Spain, from 17 to 23 March 2018.


2018 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division II, Division IIB Qualification
The Group B Qualification tournament was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in December 2017.


2018 Women's Indoor Hockey World Cup
The 2018 Women's Indoor Hockey World Cup was the fifth edition of this tournament and played from 7 to 11 February 2018 in Berlin, Germany.


2018 Women's Indoor Hockey World Cup
Germany defeated the Netherlands 2–1 in the final to win their third title, while Belarus secured their first medal.


2018 Women's Indoor Hockey World Cup, Umpires
12 umpires were appointed by the FIH for this tournament.


2018 Women's International Champions Cup
The 2018 International Champions Cup Women's Tournament was the first edition of a series of friendly women's association football matches. It took place from July 26 to 29, 2018.


2018 Women's International Champions Cup
For the first time, the ICC included a women's tournament. Nearly a dozen of the regular ICC participant clubs expressed interest in sending their women's sides, but the inaugural women's tournament featured just four teams before expanding in the 2019 ICC. The 2018 tournament featured the semi-finals on July 26, followed by third place play-off and final on July 29, all four matches being held at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The European participants joined for training sessions at the University of Portland before the tournament.


2018 Women's International Champions Cup, Teams
Four teams participated in the tournament. English club Chelsea were originally scheduled to participate, but were later replaced by Lyon.


2018 Women's International Tournament of Spain
The 2018 Women's International Tournament of Spain was the 22nd edition of the Women's International Tournament Of Spain, held in Alicante, Spain between 23–25 November as a friendly handball tournament organised by the Royal Spanish Handball Federation as a preparation of the host nation to the 2018 European Women's Handball Championship.


2018 Women's Junior NORCECA Volleyball Championship
The 2018 Women's Junior NORCECA Volleyball Championship was the eleventh edition of the bi-annual tournament. It was held in Aguascalientes City from 16 June to 24 June, and featured eight teams. The United States won the tournament and qualified to the 2019 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship. American Logan Eggleston was awarded Most Valuable Player.


2018 Women's Junior NORCECA Volleyball Championship, Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0: 5 points for the winner, 0 point for the loserMatch won 3–1: 4 points for the winner, 1 points for the loserMatch won 3–2: 3 points for the winner, 2 points for the loserIn case of equality in the number of matches won and lost, the tie will be broken according to the following criteria in order of importance:


2018 Women's Junior South American Volleyball Championship
The 2018 Women's Junior South American Volleyball Championship was the 24th edition of the tournament, organised by South America's governing volleyball body, the Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV). The top two teams qualified for the 2019 Junior World Championship.


2018 Women's Junior South American Volleyball Championship, Competing nations
The following national teams participated in the tournament, teams were seeded according to how they finished in the previous edition of the tournament:


2018 Women's Junior World Handball Championship
The 2018 IHF Women's Junior World Championship was the 21st edition of the tournament and took place in Debrecen, Hungary from 1 to 14 July 2018.


2018 Women's Junior World Handball Championship
Hungary won their first ever title by defeating Norway 28–22 in the final.


2018 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, Draw
The draw was held on 26 April 2018 at Basel, Switzerland.


2018 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, 9–16th placement games
The eight losers of the round of 16 will be seeded according to their results in the preliminary round against teams ranked 1–4.


2018 Women's LEN Super Cup
The 2018 Women's LEN Super Cup was the 13th edition of the annual trophy organised by LEN and contested by the reigning champions of the two European competitions for women's water polo clubs. The match was played between Kinef Kirishi (2017–18 Euro League champions) and Dunaújvárosi FVE (winners of the 2017–18 LEN Trophy) at the Neftyanik Sports Complex in Kirishi, Russia, on 10 November 2018.


2018 Women's LEN Super Cup
Hungary's Dunaújváros, at their debut in the competition, won the trophy recovering from a 4-goal gap during the last quarter and defeating after the shootouts the European champions and Super Cup title holders of Kinef at their home pool in Kirishi.


2018 Women's League1 Ontario season
The 2018 Women's League1 Ontario season was the fourth season of play for League1 Ontario, a Division 3 women's soccer league in the Canadian soccer pyramid and the highest level of soccer based in the Canadian province of Ontario. Durham United FA won the league championship after beating the previously undefeated FC London and Woodbridge Strikers in the playoffs.


2018 Women's League1 Ontario season, Changes from 2017
The women's division grew from 11 to 13 teams, with the addition of women's side from the Oakville Blue Devils, as well as Hamilton United (representing the league's first entry from that city) and DeRo United FC (an academy run by former national team player Dwayne De Rosario). Sanjaxx Lions did not field a team in the women's division for this season.


2018 Women's League1 Ontario season, Regular season
Each team plays 12 matches as part of the season; one match against all other teams. The top four teams advance to the playoffs to determine the league champion.


2018 Women's League1 Ontario season, Playoffs
The top four teams from the regular season earn entry into the playoffs, which consists of a single knockout phase containing two semifinals and a final.


2018 Women's League1 Ontario season, Cup
The cup tournament is a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all thirteen teams from the women's division take part. It is not a form of playoffs at the end of the season (as is typically seen in North American sports), but is more like the Canadian Championship or the FA Cup, albeit only for League1 Ontario teams. All matches are separate from the regular season and are not reflected in the season standings.


2018 Women's League1 Ontario season, Cup
The cup tournament is a single-match knockout tournament with four total rounds culminating in a final match in the start of August, with initial matchups determined by random draw. Each match in the tournament must return a result; any match drawn after 90 minutes will advance directly to kicks from the penalty mark instead of extra time.


2018 Women's League1 Ontario season, Statistics, Top goalkeepers
Updated to matches played on August 21, 2018. Minimum 360 minutes played. Source:


2018 Women's March
The 2018 Women's March was a global protest that occurred on January 20, 2018, on the anniversary of the 2017 Women's March.


2018 Women's March, About
In 2018, women's groups across the United States coordinated mass rallies, attracting hundreds of thousands of participants in hundreds of cities, towns, and suburbs. Events in the United States were accompanied by events in Canada, the UK, Japan, Italy, and several other countries. Some of the largest rallies in the United States were held in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Dallas, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Atlanta. The mission that the march is aimed towards is to gather the political power of diverse women and their communities to create a change in the society. They strive to break down the system of oppression with the means of nonviolent action lead by morality and reverence.


2018 Women's March, About
By January 2018, the #MeToo movement had become "a galvanizing force at many of the rallies". The march took place the day after the United States federal government shutdown of 2018 when Senators were unable to reach a "compromise regarding a short-term spending bill or an immigration proposal".


2018 Women's March, Participation
Around 250 marches, rallies, and actions took place on the anniversary of the 2017 Women's March, many coordinated by March On, the coalition of many of the Women's Marches across the country. Women's March Incorporated, a group of some of the women who organized the 2017 Women's March, organized a rally in Las Vegas under "Power To The Polls. ".


2018 Women's March, Participation, Washington, D.C.
In Washington, D.C. thousands gathered at the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial, although the number of individuals who attended was lower than the previous year's march. Speakers included House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).


2018 Women's March, Participation, New York City
More than 200,000 people marched in the protest according to an official count by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Speakers included Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Padma Lakshmi, Amy Schumer, Laura Benanti, Amber Tamblyn, Patricia Arquette, Rosie Perez, Piper Perabo, Drew Barrymore, and singers Cyndi Lauper and Halsey


2018 Women's March, Participation, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti estimated that 600,000 marched in Los Angeles, California. Some women chanted, "¡Sí, se puede!" or "Yes, we can!"


2018 Women's March, Participation, Chicago
It's estimated that 300,000 people marched in Chicago, Illinois which grew since last year. Speakers included Democratic donor Tom Steyer.


2018 Women's March, Participation, Philadelphia
Thousands attended the march. The city did not release an official number, but organizers unofficially estimated the crowd to be larger than fifty thousand, the number that marched in 2017.


2018 Women's March, Participation, Seattle
Thousands gathered at the Seattle's Capitol Hill to participate in the second annual Women's March. The march commenced at 10 a.m. at the Cal Anderson Park where Teresa Mosqueda addressed the marchers. U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal had planned to participate, but was hampered by the circumstances in Washington DC.


2018 Women's March, Participation, North Carolina
In Charlotte, North Carolina, thousands participated in the march. The march commenced at First Ward Park and ended at the Romare Bearden Park.


2018 Women's March, Participation, New Hampshire
Over one thousand individuals partook in the Women's March outside the New Hampshire Statehouse. Due to the circumstances in Washington DC., a few of the planned speakers were unable to show up, including Senator Maggie Hassan and Congresswoman Annie Kuster.


2018 Women's March, Participation, Virginia
In Carytown in Richmond, the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, newly elected Governor Ralph Northam participated in the Women's March. The crowd of over 1,000 individuals broke into cheers when the governor donned a pink pussy hat and when a woman ran down the middle of the street carrying a pink flag with the word "resist." Other large demonstrations were held throughout Virginia in resistance to the presidency of Donald Trump and comments concerning sexual harassment and immigration, as well as recently made administrative decisions regarding those topics made by Donald Trump.


2018 Women's March, Participation, Mar-a-lago
Hundreds of protesters marched outside Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, although the President was not there as planned, due to the government shutdown.


2018 Women's March, Participation, Rome
It's estimated that thousands of people marched in Rome. Speakers included Asia Argento.


2018 Women's March, Participation, Las Vegas
On January 21, the organization Women's March Incorporated hosted a rally, Power to the Polls, in Las Vegas. The event highlighted their launch of the national voter registration tour to get a million new voters registered. Flipping battleground swing states (such as Nevada) in the 2018 midterm elections was one of the main goals.


2018 Women's March, Response
On the day of the march, President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter: "Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!"


2018 Women's March, Impeachment March
Impeachment Marches (or Impeach Trump protests), rallies against President Donald Trump, were first held during Fourth of July celebrations in 2017, asking Congress to begin the impeachment process against Trump. They have been described as sister rallies to the Women's March rallies, and were held in select cities in 2018.


2018 Women's March, Locations
The 2018 Women's Marches took place in many cities around the world.


2018 Women's March, Stories, Sexual assault advocacy
On January 20, 2018, in New York City, Halsey delivered a speech to thousands of protesters at the second annual Women's March. The Me Too and Time's Up movements have pushed progressive activists, including celebrities, to demand immediate social and political change.


2018 Women's March, Stories, Sexual assault advocacy
Instead of a traditional speech, Halsey performed a five-minute poem titled A Story Like Mine, in which she talked about sexual assault and violence she and others had experienced. Her personal narrative included accompanying her best friend to Planned Parenthood after she had been raped, her personal account of sexual assault by neighbors and boyfriends, and women sexually assaulted by Olympic doctor Larry Nassar.


2018 Women's March, Stories, Sexual assault advocacy
Halsey further expressed her belief that celebrities are more likely to be heard and recognized as legitimately significant in media systems and that they have the power to connect popular culture to political culture, stating "Listen, and then yell at the top of your lungs, be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues."


2018 Women's March, Stories, Sexual assault advocacy
Halsey's speech, along with others, were intended to prompt women to reflect and debate misogynistic and patriarchal societal values. Halsey read, "What do you mean this happened to me? You can't put your hands on me. You don't know what my body has been through. I'm supposed to be safe now. I've earned it." Halsey said, "Every friend I know has a story like mine." Halsey completed her speech by requesting all—"Black, Asian, poor, wealthy, trans, cis, Muslim, Christian" —sexual assault victims to listen and support each other.


2018 Women's March, Stories, Pussyhats
For the 2018 Women's March, some organizers discouraged people from wearing pussyhats because they believed "the pink pussyhat excludes and is offensive to transgender women and gender nonbinary people who don't have typical female genitalia and to women of color because their genitals are more likely to be brown than pink".


2018 Women's March, Stories, Pussyhats
The name actually refers to the resemblance of the top corners of the hats to cat ears and attempts to reclaim the derogatory term "pussy", a play on Donald Trump's widely reported 2005 remarks that women would let him "grab them by the pussy"; the hats have never been representations of genitals.


2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament
The 2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament was an annual single-elimination tournament of 64 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2018 Women's NCAA Tournament. The tournament committee announced the 64-team field on March 12, following the selection of the NCAA Tournament field. The tournament began on March 14 and ended on March 31, with the championship game televised on the CBS Sports Network. In the championship game, Indiana defeated Virginia Tech, 65–57.


2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament, Participants
The 2018 Postseason WNIT field consisted of 32 automatic invitations – one from each conference – and 32 at-large teams. The intention of the WNIT Selection Committee was to select the best available at-large teams in the nation. Teams with the highest finishes in their conferences’ regular-season standings that were not selected for the NCAA Tournament were offered an automatic berth. The remaining berths in the WNIT were filled by the best teams available. Teams considered for an at-large berth had overall records of .500 or better.


2018 Women's National Invitation Tournament, Bracket
All times are listed as Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)* – Denotes overtime period


2018 Women's National League (Ireland)
The 2018 Women's National League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Continental Tyres Women's National League, was the eighth season of the Women's National League, the highest women's association football league in the Republic of Ireland. Limerick W.F.C. competed for the first time. Wexford Youths were the winners.


2018 Women's National League (Ireland), Format
Teams play each other three times, either twice at home and once away, or once at home and twice away. Each team plays 21 games, either 10 home and 11 away, or 11 home and 10 away.


2018 Women's PGA Championship
The 2018 KPMG Women's PGA Championship was the 64th Women's PGA Championship, played June 28 – July 1 at Kemper Lakes Golf Club in Long Grove, Illinois. Known as the LPGA Championship through 2014, it was the third of five major championships on the LPGA Tour during the 2018 season.


2018 Women's PGA Championship
Park Sung-hyun won the championship in a playoff over Nasa Hataoka and Ryu So-yeon. It was Park's second major win.


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field
The field included 156 players who met one or more of the selection criteria and commit to participate by a designated deadline.


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Players who qualified for the Championship are listed below. Players are listed under the first category in which they qualified; additional qualifying categories are shown in parentheses.


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Laura Davies (11), Shanshan Feng (4,6,11), Brooke Henderson (3,4,5,6,11), Juli Inkster, Danielle Kang (3,4,5,6,9,11), Cristie Kerr (4,6,9,11), Anna Nordqvist (3,4,6,9,11), Inbee Park (3,4,5,61,11), Yani Tseng (11)


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
3. Professionals who have won an LPGA major championship in the previous five years and during the current year


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Chun In-gee (4,6,11), Ariya Jutanugarn (4,6,11), Kim Hyo-joo (4,11), In-Kyung Kim (4,6,11), Lydia Ko (4,6,11), Brittany Lang (4,9,11), Stacy Lewis (4,5,6,9,11), Brittany Lincicome (4,9,11), Pernilla Lindberg (4,11), Mo Martin (11), Park Sung-hyun (4,6,11), Ryu So-yeon (4,6,11), Lexi Thompson (4,5,6,9,11), Michelle Wie (4,6,9,11)


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
4. Professionals who have won an official LPGA tournament in the previous two calendar years and during the current year


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Carlota Ciganda (6,9,11), Nasa Hataoka (11), Charley Hull (6,9,11), Ji Eun-hee (6,11), Moriya Jutanugarn (6,11), Kim Sei-young (5,6,11), Katherine Kirk (11), Ko Jin-young (6,11), Jessica Korda (6,11), Lee Mi-hyang (5,11), Minjee Lee (6,11), Mirim Lee (11), Caroline Masson (9,11), Haru Nomura (11), Annie Park (11), Jenny Shin (11), Amy Yang (5,6,11)


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
5. Professionals who finished top-10 and ties at the previous year's Women's PGA Championship


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
6. Professionals ranked No. 1-30 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of June 4, 2018


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
7. The top eight finishers at the 2017 LPGA T&CP National Championship


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Heather Angell, Jean Bartholomew, Joanna Coe, Alison Curdt, Wendy Doolan, Ashley Grier, Charlotta Sörenstam


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
8. The top finisher (not otherwise qualified via the 2017 LPGA T&CP National Championship) at the 2018 PGA Women's Stroke Play Championship


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
9. Members of the European and United States Solheim Cup teams in 2017


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Paula Creamer (11), Austin Ernst (11), Jodi Ewart Shadoff (11), Georgia Hall (11), Karine Icher (11), Catriona Matthew (11), Florentyna Parker, Emily Kristine Pedersen (11), Melissa Reid (11), Madelene Sagström (11), Angel Yin (11)


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
11. LPGA members who have committed to the event, ranked in the order of their position on the 2018 official money list through the conclusion of the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Marina Alex, Brittany Altomare, Rebecca Artis, Aditi Ashok, Laetitia Beck, Céline Boutier, Nicole Broch Larsen, Ashleigh Buhai, Katie Burnett, Tiffany Chan, Sandra Changkija, Pei-Yun Chien, Cydney Clanton, Jacqui Concolino, Katelyn Dambaugh, Daniela Darquea, Perrine Delacour, Brianna Do, Lindy Duncan, Sandra Gal, Julieta Granada, Jaye Marie Green, Hannah Green, Mina Harigae, Caroline Hedwall, Céline Herbin, Daniela Holmqvist, Wei-Ling Hsu, M. J. Hur, Daniela Iacobelli, Caroline Inglis, Tiffany Joh, Haeji Kang, Kim Kaufman, Megan Khang, Christina Kim, Lauren Kim, P.K. Kongkraphan, Nelly Korda, Ólafía Þórunn Kristinsdóttir, Candie Kung, Cindy LaCrosse, Bronte Law, Maude-Aimee Leblanc, Lee Jeong-eun, Erynne Lee, Min Lee, Amelia Lewis, Lin Xiyu, Yu Liu, Gaby López, Lee Lopez, Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Brittany Marchand, Ally McDonald, Wichanee Meechai, Giulia Molinaro, Azahara Muñoz, Benyapa Niphatsophon, Su-Hyun Oh, Amy Olson, Ryann O'Toole, Lee-Anne Pace, Jane Park, Park Hee-young, Pornanong Phatlum, Sophia Popov, Morgan Pressel, Beatriz Recari, Robynn Ree, Paula Reto, Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong, Alena Sharp, Sarah Jane Smith, Luna Sobrón Galmés, Jennifer Song, Mariah Stackhouse, Angela Stanford, Jackie Stoelting, Thidapa Suwannapura, Emma Talley, Kris Tamulis, Anne-Catherine Tanguay, Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras, Maria Torres, Ayako Uehara, Mariajo Uribe, Cheyenne Woods, Sakura Yokomine, Yoo Sun-young


2018 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
12. The remainder of the field will be filled by members who have committed to the event, ranked in the order of their position on the 2018 LPGA Priority List as of the commitment deadline


2018 Women's PSA World Series Finals
The 2018 Women's PSA World Series Finals is the women's edition of the PSA World Series Finals (Prize money : $160 000). The top 8 players in the 2017–18 PSA World Series are qualified for the event. The event will take place in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates from 5 to 9 June 2018.


2018 Women's PSA World Series Finals
Nour El Sherbini won its first PSA World Series Finals title after defeating fellow countrywoman Raneem El Weleily 3–1 in the Final.


2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The 2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the 17th edition of the annual women's volleyball tournament. It was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from 8 to 14 July. Twelve teams competed and the top five ranked teams at the end of the tournament qualified to the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.


2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The United States won the second straight title (sixth in history) after defeating the Dominican Republic 3–2 in the final. American Lauren Carlini was awarded the Most Valuable Player.


2018 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3–1: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch won 3–2: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser


2018 Women's Regional Super50
The 2018 Women's Regional Super50 was a 50-over women's cricket competition that took place in the West Indies. It took place in June 2018, with 6 teams taking part and all matches taking place in Jamaica. Barbados won the tournament, their second 50-over title.


2018 Women's Regional Super50, Competition format
Teams played in a league of six, playing three matches. Matches were played using a one day format with 50 overs per side. The top team in the group were crowned the Champions.


2018 Women's Regional Super50, Competition format
The group worked on a points system with positions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:


2018 Women's Regional Super50, Competition format
Win: 4 pointsTie: 2 pointsLoss: 0 points. Abandoned/No Result: 2 points. Bonus Point: 1 bonus point available per match.


2018 Women's Six Nations Championship
The 2018 Women's Six Nations Championship, also known as the 2018 RBS Women's Six Nations sponsored by Royal Bank of Scotland, was the 17th series of the Women's Six Nations Championship, an annual women's rugby union competition between six European rugby union national teams. Matches were held in February and March 2018, on the same weekends as the men's tournament, if not always the same day.


2018 Women's Six Nations Championship
As in the 2017 tournament, the 2018 tournament used the rugby union bonus points system common to other professional tournaments: "As well as the standard four points for a win or two for a draw, a team scoring four or more tries during a match will receive an additional league table point, as will a team losing by 7 or fewer points". "Additionally, to ensure that a team winning all of its five matches (a Grand Slam) will also win the Championship, three bonus points will be awarded for this achievement".


2018 Women's Softball World Championship
The 2018 Women's Softball World Championship was an international softball competition held in Chiba, Japan, from 2 August to 12 August. It was the 16th edition of the tournament, and the third edition to be sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). Previous editions were sanctioned by the International Softball Federation, which governed the sport until its 2013 merger with the International Baseball Federation to create the WBSC. As the winners, the United States earned the right to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was the last world title awarded under the championship format before the WBSC implemented the new world cup 4 year cycle.


2018 Women's Softball World Championship, Competition format
The teams are separated into two groups of eight teams each for the preliminary round. Each group plays a single round robin. The top four teams in each group advance to the championship round, while the bottom four teams play in placement games. The championship round is played in a double Page round.


2018 Women's Softball World Championship, Competition format
The games were played with the 15/10/7 run ahead mercy rule where a game was called if  one team leads the other by 15 runs or more after 3 innings, 10 runs or more after 4 innings, or 7 runs or more after 5 innings have been played.


2018 Women's Softball World Championship Group Stage
The Group Stage was the first stage of the 2018 Women's Softball World Championship. Qualified teams were split into 2 groups of 8 teams each following a serpentine system based on the Women's Softball WBSC World Rankings. Teams played a round-robin within their group, the top 4 teams in each group advanced to the playoff round and the bottom 4 sent to the placement round. It was the last time the groups would compete at the same time and location as each other or the final stages.


2018 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship
The 2018 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship was the tenth official edition of the women's volleyball tournament, played by six teams from 20–24 February 2018 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Camponesa/Minas won its first title and qualified for the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in Ningbo, China. Carol Gattaz was elected the Most Valuable Player.


2018 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship, Competing clubs
Teams were seeded in two pools of three according to how the representatives of their countries finished in the 2016 edition.


2018 Women's State of Origin
The 2018 Women's State of Origin was the first State of Origin rugby league match between the New South Wales and Queensland women's teams played at North Sydney Oval on 22 June 2018.


2018 Women's State of Origin
The game was the first played under the State of Origin banner. Prior to 2018, the teams played each other annually in the Women's Interstate Challenge before being rebranded as State of Origin. New South Wales defeated Queensland 16–10 to record their third straight win over the Maroons. New South Wales centre Isabelle Kelly was awarded the Nellie Doherty Medal for Player of the Match.


2018 Women's State of Origin, Background
On 6 December 2017, the National Rugby League announced that the Women's Interstate Challenge, which ran from 1999 to 2017, would be rebranded as the Women's State of Origin. The game which, was previously played as a curtain-raiser, would now be a standalone fixture broadcast on the Nine Network and Fox Sports.


2018 Women's Super 3s
The 2018 Women's Super 3s, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2018 Toyota Super 3s, was the fourth Women's Super 3s competition that took place in Ireland. It ran from May to September, with 3 teams taking part made up of the best players in Ireland. The teams played 10 matches each, four 50 over matches and six Twenty20s. Dragons won the competition, winning their second title.


2018 Women's Super 3s, Competition format
The three teams played ten matches each in a league system. Each team played the other two sides twice in a 50 over match and three times in a Twenty20 match, with all matches contributing to a unified table.


2018 Women's Super 3s, Competition format
The league worked on a points system with positions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:


2018 Women's Super 3s, Competition format
Win: 2 points. Tie: 1 point. Loss: 0 points. Abandoned/No Result: 1 point.


2018 Women's T20 Challenge
The 2018 Women's T20 Challenge was the inaugural edition of Women's T20 Challenge, a women's Twenty20 cricket match which took place on 22 May 2018 at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. In an effort to popularise women’s cricket, the BCCI had organised the match ahead of Qualifier 1 of 2018 IPL. The exhibition match was also held by the BCCI as a rehearsal for a Women's IPL tournament, a target which would be accomplished in the future. IPL Supernovas won the match by 3 wickets in a last over thriller.


2018 Women's Tour Down Under
The 2018 Santos Women's Tour Down Under was a women's cycle stage race held in Australia from 11 to 14 January, 2018. The Women's Tour Down Under, being held for the seventh time, was held as a UCI rating of 2.1 race, having been a 2.2 race in 2017.


2018 Women's Tour Down Under
The race was won for the second year in succession – becoming the first rider to win multiple Tour Down Under races – by Mitchelton–Scott rider Amanda Spratt. Spratt placed third on the stage to Mengler Hill, and assumed the race leader's ochre jersey the following day by winning the stage into Hahndorf. Spratt won the race by 41 seconds ahead of Lauren Stephens, riding for Cylance Pro Cycling. 2016 race winner Katrin Garfoot completed the podium, riding for the UniSA–Australia team, a further 40 seconds in arrears of Stephens. With her above finishes on hill-top stages, Spratt won the polka-dot jersey for the mountains classification, while Garfoot won the sprints classification and its green jersey on the final day in Adelaide, winning all four intermediate sprints during the stage.


2018 Women's Tour Down Under
The race's other jersey, the white jersey, went to Grace Anderson of the New Zealand national team, as the best-placed rider – in ninth overall – under the age of 25. Mitchelton–Scott won the teams classification, after placing Spratt, Lucy Kennedy and Annemiek van Vleuten in the top-six overall.


2018 Women's Tour Down Under, Teams
17 teams participated in the 2018 Women's Tour Down Under.


2018 Women's Tour Down Under, Classification leadership table
In the 2018 Women's Tour Down Under, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers at intermediate sprints and at the finish of mass-start stages, the leader received an ochre jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Women's Tour Down Under, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.


2018 Women's Tour Down Under, Classification leadership table
Additionally, there was a sprints classification, which awarded a green jersey. In the sprints classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 8 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 16 points, with 12 for second, 8 for third, 6 for fourth, with one point fewer per place down to 2 points for 8th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued – awarded on a 5–3–2 scale – at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification as noted above. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a white jersey with navy polka dots. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.


2018 Women's Tour Down Under, Classification leadership table
The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1993 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.


2018 Women's Tour de Yorkshire
The 2018 Women's Tour de Yorkshire was a two-day cycling stage race staged in Yorkshire over 3 and 4 May 2018. It is the third edition of the Women's Tour de Yorkshire, organised by Welcome to Yorkshire and the Amaury Sport Organisation - but the first multi-day stage race.


2018 Women's Tri-Nations Hockey Tournament
The 2018 Women's Tri-Nations Hockey Tournament was an invitational women's field hockey competition, hosted by the New Zealand Hockey Federation. The tournament took place between 19 and 27 May 2018 in Cromwell, New Zealand. A total of three teams competed for the title.


2018 Women's Tri-Nations Hockey Tournament
Australia won the tournament by defeating New Zealand 4–1 in the final. Japan finished in third place, after being eliminated by New Zealand in the Semi-final.


2018 Women's Tri-Nations Hockey Tournament, Teams
Including New Zealand, 3 teams were invited by the New Zealand Hockey Federation to participate in the tournament.


2018 Women's Tri-Nations Hockey Tournament, Statistics, Final Standings
As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.


2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup
The 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup was the seventh edition of the ACC Women's Asia Cup, organized by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). It took place between 3 and 10 June 2018 in Malaysia, and was the third edition played as a 20-over tournament. The tournament was contested between Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand. India were the defending champions.


2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup
On 6 June 2018, during the group stage, Bangladesh beat India by seven wickets. This was Bangladesh's first win against India in a women's international cricket match, and India's first ever loss in the Asia Cup. On 9 June 2018, Thailand beat Sri Lanka by four wickets to register their first ever win against a Full Member side.


2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup
India were the first team to advance to the final, after they beat Pakistan by seven wickets in their final group game. They were joined by Bangladesh, who beat Malaysia by 70 runs in their final match. It was India's seventh consecutive Asia Cup final and the first for Bangladesh. Bangladesh beat India by three wickets in the final to win their first Asia Cup title, and became the only other team to win the title besides India.


2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup
A month after the conclusion of the tournament, the International Cricket Council (ICC) retrospectively gave all the fixtures full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status.


2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup
The 2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2018 Vitality Women's Twenty20 Cup was the 10th cricket Women's Twenty20 Cup tournament. It took place in June and July, with 36 teams taking part: 34 county teams plus Scotland and Wales. Middlesex Women won the Twenty20 Cup, as winners of Division 1, therefore achieving their first title.


2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup
The tournament followed the 50-over 2018 Women's County Championship, and was subsequently followed by the Twenty20 2018 Women's Cricket Super League, competed for by regional teams.


2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Competition Format
Teams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned the Champions. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format.


2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Competition Format
The championship works on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:


2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Competition Format
Win: 4 points. Tie: 1 point. Loss: 0 points. Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.


2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Teams
The 2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup was divided into three divisions: Division One and Division Two with nine teams each, and Division Three with 18 teams, divided into regional groups of 6 teams apiece; teams in all divisions played eight games.


2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship
The 2018 Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship was the 26th edition of the competition, with the main phase (contested between 12 teams) held in Albania from 1 to 9 September 2018.


2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship Qualification
This is an article about qualification for the 2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship.


2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser


2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship Qualification, Qualification
The winners of each pools and the best three second placed teams qualified for final round.


2018 Women's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The 2018 Women's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the fourth edition of the bi-annual women's volleyball tournament. It was held in Lima, Peru from 14 to 19 August among eight national U23 teams.


2018 Women's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup, Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3–1: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch won 3–2: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser


2018 Women's U23 Pan-American Volleyball Cup, Final standing
Gaila González,Vielka Peralta,Camila de la Rosa,Natalia Martínez,Angelica Hinojosa,Geraldine González,Yokaty Pérez,Yanlis Feliz,Larysmer Martínez,Brayelin Martínez,Jineiry Martínez,Yaneirys Rodríguez


2018 Women's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup
The 2018 Women's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup was the latest edition of the Women's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup, the tournament patronized by Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, The Princess Royal of Thailand for women's senior volleyball clubs, also known as 2018 Sealect Tuna Women's Senior Volleyball Kor Royal Cup Thailand Championship due to the sponsorship deal with Sealect Tuna. A total of 6 teams will compete in the tournament.


2018 Women's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup, Preliminary round, Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser


2018 Women's Volleyball Thai-Denmark Super League
2018 Women's Volleyball Thai–Denmark Super League (Thai: วอลเลย์บอลหญิงไทยเดนมาร์คซูเปอร์ลีก 2018) was the 6th edition of the tournament. It was held at the MCC Hall of The Mall Bangkapi in Bangkok, Thailand from 28 March – 1 April 2018.


2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match
The 2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match at the international draughts was held 19–30 November 2018 in Riga (Latvia) International Draughts Federation FMJD between world champion 2017 Zoja Golubeva (Latvia) and world champion 2016 Natalia Sadowska (Poland).Natalia Sadowska won second title. Prize money 17 000€ (10 000€ for winner and 7000€ for loser). If score will be 54:54 both players will receive equally.


2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match, Rules
First game of the micro-matches — standard game 1 hour 20 min + 1 min per move. For victory 12 points, for lost 0 points 12:0.


2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match, Rules
If draw at 1st game — rapid game 20 min + 5 sec per move. For victory 8 points, for lost 4 points 8:4.


2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match, Rules
If draw at rapid game — blitz game 5 min + 3 sec per move. For victory 7 points, for lost 5 points 7:5.


2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match, Rules
If after 9 days score is 54:54 title get to player with better score in standard games, if equality – title get to player with better score in rapid games. If equality — deciding tie-break will be played on the next day. The tie-break consists of unlimited number of games until first victory. First four games will be played as a rapid game (20’+5”), since game number 5th blitz games (5’ +3”) will be played until the end.


2018 Women's World Draughts Championship match, Rules
If one of the player will get more than 54 points, match will be finished.


2018 Women's World Junior Squash Championships
The 2018 Women's  World Junior Squash Championships is the women's edition of the 2018 World Junior Squash Championships, which serves as the individual world Junior championship for squash players. The event took place in Chennai in India from 18 to 23 July 2018.


2018 Women's World Junior Squash Championships
Rowan Reda Araby won the tournament after defeating compatriot Hania El Hammamy in the final.


2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship
The 2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship was a professional nine-ball pool tournament that took place in Sanya, China from 3 to 9 December 2018.


2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship
The event was entered by 64 participants who were initially divided into 8 groups of 8 players, in which they competed against each other from December 3 to 5 in a double elimination tournament. Four players in each group qualified for the final round, which was played from December 6 to 9. The event was played under "alternating break" format with 3-point break rule and one ball on the foot spot.


2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship
Han Yu won the title with a 9–6 victory over Wang Xiaotong in the final. It was Han Yu's third Women's World Nine-ball Championship win, following her previous in 2013 and 2016.


2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship, Preliminary round – Double elimination
In the group stage, the double elimination format was played with race to 7 and alternate break.


2018 Women's World Nine-ball Championship, Main tournament – Single elimination
Knockout stage consisted of last 32 players. Defending champion Siming Chen was defeated by Fu Xiaofang in quarter-finals in a hill-hill match.