Originally founded on 30th April 1859, Sporting Life established the UK's first multi-sports website on 20th December 1996 as a companion to the historic sporting newspaper.

Though the last printed edition of The Sporting Life rolled off the presses on May 12th 1998; the name, great content and core values of the newspaper very much live on in sportinglife.com.

The site has gone on to thrive in the last decade as a firm favourite for millions of sports fans around the world looking for accurate, immediate and impartial sporting information.

Drawing on our nigh-on 150 years of heritage, sportinglife.com offers unrivalled in-depth news, scores, results and reviews across an impressive array of sport-specific channels including: Football, Horse Racing, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Golf, Cricket, Formula 1, Greyhounds, Boxing, Tennis, Snooker and US Sports.

sportinglife.com operates as part of 365 Media Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sky.

We at sportinglife.com strive to be the leading destination worldwide for fans of UK sport. We welcome any feedback on the content of our sites, the services you like, what you think could be improved or indeed if you have any questions you think we may be able to answer.

To contact our editorial team click here.

Through our advertising sales team at Sky Digital Media, we are the partner of choice for any company that wishes to be associated with serious coverage of sport on the internet. Advertisers and sponsors come from from a host of different sectors.

If you are interested in discussing content supply requirements or other commercial opportunities, click here to learn more about how 365 Media Group can help you.

Potential sponsors or partners with competitions, ad hoc promotions or marketing partnership proposals in mind should contact our marketing team.
If you have enquiries about a specific competitions featured on the site, please email: competitions AT sportinglife.com.

If you would like to receive emails from sportinglife.com on your choice of sports please click here.

If you are interested in obtaining more information about the career opportunities with 365 Media Group, click here.

As we are now an online publication we no longer store archives of The Sporting Life newspaper in-house. There are two ways through which you may be able to find the edition(s) you are looking for:

Historic Newspapers
You can obtain copies of The Sporting Life for a small range of dates at Historic Newspapers.

At last check, they had copies from the following years in stock: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1970, 1977, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 & 1997.

The British Library
The British Library has a full collection of The Sporting Life, 30 April 1859-12 May 1998. Back issues on microfilm or hard copies of the newspaper may be read and researched at their Colindale Library. See for full details.

The BL is now conducting a project to digitise their collections and make them searchable and available via the web. Unfortunately, it may be some time until we see The Sporting Life included in this online collection as the first phase of that project is to digitise their regional newspaper collection. For more information on this project click here

Good luck with your research!

If you have any technical questions regarding the site, or want to report a fault or problem, please email us providing URL's where possible at: support AT sportinglife.com

sportinglife.com is divided into channels - you can jump between these using the pulldown menu on the left of your screen. Within each channel, you can move around using the vertical menu at the left of the screen or the right-hand links which ‘deep-link’ straight to featured content. Our scroller service brings the very latest news and scores to the top of the screen. To enable this service, you need to ensure that java is switched on in your browser's options.

The site is best viewed using a recent browser version at a screen resolution of 800x600 or higher. You can download the latest version of Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox from here, absolutely free of charge.

Of the various speech browsers designed for use by the vision and reading-impaired, SimplyWeb is available for free and produces good results, working best if its "Autofocus" option is set to "WebBrowser" (requires Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher).