All English, Welsh and Northern Irish football and senior Scottish football has been postponed this weekend as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Ten Premier League and six Scottish Premiership fixtures were scheduled.
EFL games were due to take place on Friday and Saturday, with six Women’s Super League fixtures – the first of the season – on Saturday and Sunday.
England’s National League, FA Trophy and grassroots football is also off.
Play will resume in England’s cricket Test against South Africa on Saturday and the women’s Twenty20 match between England and India will go ahead.
Golf’s PGA Championship will restart on Saturday after play was halted on Thursday.
British horse racing will return on Sunday, with rugby union’s Premiership season beginning on Saturday after two fixtures on Friday were postponed.
Boxing’s world title fight between Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields has been postponed, with a provisional date of 15 October set for it to be rescheduled.
All British Boxing Board of Control tournaments have been postponed for the weekend.
Sunday’s Great North Run will go ahead as planned, with organisers saying it is “an opportunity to come together and express our condolences while celebrating the life of our extraordinary Queen”, and that the event would be “more subdued out of respect”.
And next week’s Davis Cup Finals tennis tournament in Glasgow will be played, the Lawn Tennis Association has confirmed.
The group stage event, which includes Great Britain, the United States, the Netherlands and Kazakhstan, is taking place at the Emirates Arena from 13 to 18 September.
Manchester City’s Champions League game with Borussia Dortmund at Etihad Stadium on Wednesday will go ahead as planned.
Although Uefa is yet to state what is happening with next week’s matches involving British teams, BBC Sport has been told City are able to provide the policing needed so the game will go ahead as scheduled.
Manchester United have confirmed their Europa League game with FC Sheriff in Moldova next Thursday will take place as scheduled “following discussions with the relevant governing bodies and in line with guidance issued by the UK government”.
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, died on Thursday aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.
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