Friday night brings another major programme of finals, including the women’s 10,000m, men’s high jump, men’s 400m hurdles, men’s 200m and women’s 800m.

Birmingham is part of the story as much as the stadium: this is the first European Athletics Championships staged in Britain.

The Ayrshire derby. Friday’s strongest local-football fixture: neighbouring clubs, regional identity and a knockout cup tie at Rugby Park.

A pathway watch rather than headline viewing: academy football as a window into which clubs genuinely create routes towards first-team football.

An accessible regional-football pick: Welsh domestic football, its own football ecosystem and free viewing.

Two major women’s football institutions whose identities tell very different stories about the development and globalisation of the club game.

A Maghreb derby in Rabat for third place: neighbouring countries, regional rivalry and another major crowd occasion in the host city.

Race walks take athletics into the city before the evening returns to Alexander Stadium for another programme of finals.

Elite sport temporarily remapping a city through roads, neighbourhoods, spectators and public space.

One of the weekend’s strongest accessible women’s club fixtures, rooted in Glasgow’s own football culture.