Big Match & Dates Diary

The issue’s forward diary, covering 22 March to 21 May 2022 and pinning down the run-in of a congested spring. It opens on the UEFA Women’s Champions League quarter-finals, either side of the Genero Adran Trophy final at Dragon Park in Newport, then turns to a heavy World Cup qualifying window: North Macedonia against England, Austria against Northern Ireland and Wales against France at Parc y Scarlets on 8 April, followed four days later by Northern Ireland against England at Windsor Park, Scotland against Spain at Hampden, Kazakhstan against Wales and Sweden against the Republic of Ireland. Domestic landmarks follow, with the Vitality Women’s FA Cup semi-finals, the FA Girls’ Cup and Plate finals at Loughborough, the start of the Danske Bank Irish Premiership, the Wembley cup final on 15 May and the Champions League final in Turin.