Sentence examples for hosted a match from inspiring English sources

More remarkably, Old Trafford hosted a match the following afternoon.

This week, watched by a television audience of tens of millions around the world, Bangalore hosted a match in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

That attack, by officers from the Batalhão de Choque on protesters singing the national anthem and waving Brazilian flags, came as the stadium hosted a match in the Confederations Cup, a dress rehearsal for next year's World Cup.

On April 9 , 1975 Leeds United, then the best football team in England, hosted a match against Barcelona, the famous Spanish club, in the semifinal of the European Cup — the precursor to the Champions League, in which Europe's top clubs compete.

Beginning with the first of two 50-over fixtures against Ireland in Bristol on 5 May, the international season will run until the last of six limited-overs matches against West Indies in Southampton on 29 September, the latest in the year England will have hosted a match.

With the season only one week old, El-Kanemi have not hosted a match at home this season, so the safety of road travel in and out of the city for a football match has not been tested.

Lyon – a much bigger city with a new stadium that caters for more than 59,000 – will host a match between Albania and Romania.

Should either the Wanderers or the Reds make the A-League grand final on May 7 they would have to host a match within three days of the decider.

It also ignored an offer by FIFA, soccer's world governing body, to host a match or two in that tournament.

… The Red Bulls will dive into this year's Open Cup against the winner of the Harrisburg-Reading game, hosting a match on May 29.

Cagliari were also banned from hosting a match against Juventus in the stadium and had to switch that fixture to Parma.