Thomas Cook Sport was appointed participating tour operator for the 2010 FIFA World Cup(TM) in South Africa, which will see the company operating tours from five European regions.
FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, has dismissed talk of ditching South Africa as 2010 World Cup hosts saying there was "no Plan B”, Reuters reports.
Delegates at the Opening Ceremony of Soccerex 2008, the business conference for world football, will be welcomed by one of the most influential figures in South African football, Dr. Irvin Khoza.
Barloworld, will continue to sponsor professional cycling team, Team Barloworld, until 2009 despite announcing that it was pulling out after doping scandals at the Tour de France.
Industrial brand management company, Barloworld, has extended their sponsorship of professional cycling team, Team Barloworld, for one-year until 2009.
FIFA 2010 and 2014 sponsor Satyam signed up as title sponsor for Soccerex’s 2008's Media Workshop, one of six sector-specific workshops at the inaugural International Football Club Summit.
Soccerex will hold a tender workshop for all cities interested in hosting Soccerex events at the Soccerex Convention 2008.
Jérôme Valcke, FIFA Secretary General, will join Dr. Danny Jordaan, CEO, South Africa 2010 LOC, to provide an exclusive 2010 FIFA World Cup update at Soccerex 2008.
Soccerex said its brand new online networking site, SoccerExchange will go live on Tuesday October 7.
Brands including Nokia, Pepsi, LG and Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) are competing for the title sponsorship rights for cricket’s Champions League Twenty20 competition.
FIFA and Soccerex have assembled a panel of industry leaders to highlight the importance of mobile marketing and broadcasting ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Under the deal, which runs until 2010, Sony Ericsson will become the Official Mobile Phone Handset of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Amanda Staveley is the senior partner of private equity firm PCP Capital Partners.
Although a decision on the host city for the 2020 Games won't be made until 2013, the paper reports that Durban is busy with a series of strategic moves to make the best use of its sporting resources
Dr. Edward de Bono will address delegates in Gauteng, South Africa on his ideas for revolutionising modern day football.
The session, which will be held in 2011, will elect the host city for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games; early contenders include PyeongChang Korea, Geneva Switzerland, Munich Germany and Tromsoe Norway.
The delegation will include general secretary, Jérôme Valcke, head of new media Charles-Henry Contamine and director of communications and public affairs, Hans Klaus.
Jordaan will lead a panel of invited guests in a session entitled “2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa – the greatest sporting event the world will ever see”, using the Soccerex Conference Progr
The organisers hope that the event will serve as a catalyst for the creation of a wide range of employment opportunities in the motorsport, logistical, security and infrastructure sectors whilst also
The Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) were last year incorporated into the South African domestic structure and took part in the limited overs and Twenty20 championships as part of efforts to help the coun
As well as becoming the ATP’s official airline partner through 2012, the agreement will see the continuation of SAA’s sponsorship of several of the ATP Tour’s prestigious international tournamen
SuperSport will air coverage of the competitions on SuperSport 3, 5, 6, 7 and other SuperSport-branded channels, on its website, and via its mobile portal.
Absa has sponsored South Africa’s premier domestic rugby competition for many years.
This November, Soccerex 2008 will see a global cross section of rights holders convening for four days, providing an unparalleled opportunity for all industry decision makers.
The inaugural tournament, which will have a winners' prize of $5 million, will reportedly comprise eight teams, playing 15 games.
Under the deal, Guinness will become the Official Sponsor of the tour and Official Beer of the British & Irish Lions while Bushmills will be the Official Spirit.
Continental will continue to activate its exclusive global marketing rights in the product categories tyres and run-flat systems for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2010 FIFA World Cup, both of w
A joint venture between Kaelo Worldwide Media and Octagon Marketing have been appointed as the specialist marketing consultant for the sale of the naming rights.
Australian rugby boss, John O’Neil, has proposed that the Super 14 to be played over 26 weeks, instead of the current 16, with eight teams contesting a month-long final series in August.
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM) is a Metropolitan Municipality that has exclusive and legislative authority within its area of jurisdiction which includes the former areas of Port Elizabeth
Fifa general secretary, Jerome Valcke, said that SABC did not need a licence to broadcast the Fifa Confederations Cup in 2009 or the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
The third-placed team will earn $2.27 million with $2.25 million going to the fourth-placed team. The teams ranked fifth to eighth will each receive $1.4 million.
The South Africa Rugby Union has agreed a local deal for the TV rights to its home tests and domestic Currie Cup competition with pay broadcaster SuperSport.
Leon Vermaak, CEO of Auto & General, said the company were proud to be associated with the Lions as they embodied the key ingredients of Auto & General's success: a positive attitude, teamwork, passi
An arbitration hearing ruled in favour of the Premier Soccer League (PSL), which had sold the rights to pay-broadcaster SuperSport in a five-year deal worth R1-billion.
Under the agreement, Gauteng will directly sponsor the F1 team, with the aim of increasing its international profile.
The broadcaster will air all 31 matches in English, French and Portuguese. The deal was brokered by the Sportfive agency.
"It is a legacy that we will build on as we continue to develop our province as home for competitive sport," said Premier Shilowa.
FIFA says that the official event stores will be located within 160 branches of Edgars throughout South Africa, with the first shop scheduled to open later this month to coincide with the preliminary
Under the deal, the bank will become title sponsor of the Nedbank Cup, replacing rival bank Absa which gave up its rights to the tournament in September.
According to South African news reports, the SA Football Players Union (Safpu) said it is unhappy that R70m had been set aside as a commission for administrators who worked on raising sponsorship for
Ten already holds the rights for all international cricket played in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and West Indies.
Multipro Natural, a new water purification company, has signed a three-year agreement to become a major event partner of the series with the aim of promoting its water treatment product AquaSP.
Both the FIFA President and General Secretary will be in South Africa for the World Cup draw, taking place in Durban on 25th November.
The first Twenty20 World cup begins on Tuesday September 11, with 12 countries participating across three venues in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.
This session will address case studies of innovative CSR work from each speaker, whilst highlighting the socioeconomic impact that such schemes have on communities around the world.
FIFA’s invitation to tender concerns two separate tender packages.
In a deal worth R500m (US$69m) over five-years, it has agreed a deal with financial firm Absa and brewer SAB Castle Lager.
It comes ahead of South Africa hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Jordaan said revenue from the sale of broadcasting rights had already been secured as 95 per cent of broadcasting rights had already been sold.
Covering television and new media platforms including internet and mobile, the distribution partnerships will make the tournament available to millions of viewers across the world.
The IAAF said it had given first priority to free to air broadcast agreements in order to maximise the promotional reach of the event and is happy to confirm that the event will be seen terrestrially
Telkom SA joins First National Bank as the second company in this sponsorship class and gains local marketing rights to both the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ and the FIFA Confederations Cup, which will be h
The agreement between the PSL, pay channel SuperSport and the public broadcaster gives the SABC exclusive screening rights to 110 matches, the three parties said in a joint statement.
The Australian, New Zealand and South African unions met with representatives from Sky Sports (New Zealand), Fox Sports (Australia) and SuperSport (South Africa) at a two-day SANZAR strategy review me
Under the deal, SABC will offer increased coverage of the 2010 Winter Games and the 2012 Summer Games across a number of TV channels, including a commitment to air over 200 hours of live or same-day d
The deal includes an injection of funds into the professional rugby team as well as the rights to develop the commercial property for Valke Rugby.
According to South African press reports, Tim Modise, chief communications officer for the committee, said deals of this nature were an indication of the growing interest in local soccer ahead of the
The PSL has already awarded its live rights to pay-broadcaster Supersport International in a deal worth more than R1-billion. The award was slammed by the SABC and prompted a political outcry.
Western Province Rugby Football Union chief executive Theuns Roodman
revealed that the union was interested in bidding to become the
operator of the Green Point Stadium.
With many federations already confirmed, Soccerex are expecting to surpass the 300 federation representatives attracted to last year’s event, helping to make Soccerex 2007 the biggest and best yet.
Under the three-year deal, SuperSport will broadcast Serie A from the 2007-08 season to the 2009-10 season. The agreement also covers the Milan Channel.
Delegates representing each of Fifa's 208 member nations unanimously backed Blatter, who originally succeeded Joao Havelange in 1998.
The Asian Cricket Council awarded the worldwide TV rights for the second edition of Afro-Asia Cup to ESPN-Star Sports.
Although South African officials have dismissed concerns over preparations for the tournament – insisting the event will take place as planned – there have been worries some venues will be ready i
André Pruis, Deputy National Commissioner for Operational Services of the South African Police Service, heads the country’s Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure, responsible for the coordin
The race will form part of the elite professional calendar in 2007 and is expected to attract leading cycling teams from across the world. There is no qualification with teams invited to take part.
Under the deal, the national competition will be named the Yellow Pages Ultimate Athletics competition.
Accelerate was appointed following a comprehensive pitch process involving the world’s leading sponsorship agencies.
Jabu Moleketi also confirmed construction work on the stadiums to be used for the tournament will commence in February.
But the FIFA Executive Committee said it was ‘satisfied’ on the status of preparations so far – and underlined its support for the local organising committee.
The Platinum sponsorship will include the provision of media centre infrastructure, WiFi connectivity and the hosting of the Women's World Cup of Golf official website.
He denied FIFA is looking for an alternative host country because of concerns that South Africa had fallen far behind in its preparations. Blatter said that South Africa would get everything done.
The 24-hour cricket channel has rights to all ICC competitions for the North American territory as well as cricket from the West Indies, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
The Gauteng Province is the economic hub of South Africa and is used by many multi-nationals as a gateway to Africa.
Committee chiefs say the price has risen due to the decision to build new stadiums rather than convert existing rugby venues, as originally planned.
IRB Member Unions Arabian Gulf, Australia, Kenya, Netherlands, Russia, South Africa and USA all confirmed their commitment to host the Tournament by the deadline of Friday, September 29.
The International Rugby Board (IRB) said that a record number of countries have officially confirmed their intention to tender for the right to host the Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament in 2009.
Schmidt will spend seven days per month as the coordinator of FIFA’s 2010 World Cup project, using his extensive experience to serve as FIFA General Secretary Urs Linsi’s “extended arm” in Sou
The general secretary of the German football association (DFB) and one of the driving forces behind the success of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ Horst R. Schmidt, is take a consultancy role in the staging of the 2010 event in South Africa following an agreement reached with FIFA football’s governing body.
Included in the eight-year period under discussion are 18 ICC tournaments with two ICC Cricket World Cups, in Asia (2011) and Australasia (2015), and a minimum of three ICC Champions Trophy tournament
In the latest stage in the exploitation of its commercial and broadcast rights for 2007 – 2015 the International Cricket Council (ICC) said it would start meetings with broadcasters and agencies in Dubai today.
The draft National Sport and Recreation Amendment Bill which is before the South African parliament seeks to enable the Minister of Sport and Recreation to intervene in the management of sport bodies.
Civil rights initiative Afriforum has warned that proposed legislation could negatively affect South Africa's participation in the 2010 football World Cup.
A total of 600 swimmers and 265 officials from 60 countries will arrive in Durban for the December 2-8 championships which take place every four years and are second only to the IPC Athletics World Ch
South Africa has won the right to host the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) Swimming World Championships in Durban in December.
In April the ICC’s Executive Board decided the hosts for its tournaments during the eight-year period from 2007 to 2015.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) said that it would launch the next stage of its sale of media and sponsorship rights for its events, from late 2007 to 2015, this month.
The FIFA Executive Committee, chaired by President Joseph S. Blatter, will be meeting for the first time since the conclusion of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ in Germany.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup™ and related projects, as well as the new Code of Ethics, will be key points on the agenda for FIFA’s Executive Committee meeting to be held in Zurich on 15 September.
Following the recent Stanford 20/20 tournament in the region, a combined team was due to face South Africa in Antigua on 10 November.
A $5m winner takes all 20/20 Super Star match in the West Indies, funded by billionaire cricket investor Allen Stanford, been cancelled because of a scheduling conflict.
South Africa pulled out of a tri-nation tournament in Sri Lanka following a bomb blast close to where the team was staying.
The president of cricket’s world governing body has expressed his dismay at South Africa’s decision to pull-out of a tournament for security reasons – fuelling speculation a heavy fine will be imposed on the nation.
Organisers said they would invite the champion Twenty20 teams from Test-playing nations in January before the 2007 World Cup.
The Sharjah stadium could be set to host a Twenty20 club tournament early next year, according to organisers.
The period includes 18 ICC tournaments with two ICC Cricket World Cups, in Asia (2011) and Australasia (2015) and a minimum of three ICC Champions Trophy tournaments.
The International Cricket Council said it will shortly start the process of selling media and sponsorship rights to events taking place between the second half of 2007 and the ICC Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2015.
Exhibitors include A1GP WORLD CUP OF MOTORSPORT, AGFIS, ALCATEL, ALFACAM - EURO1080, ALFRED HABER DISTRIBUTION, INC., BBC WORLDWIDE, EUROPEAN BROADCASTING UNION – EUROVISION, EUROSPORT, FGSPORT, FIG
With more than 2 months to go before the opening of SPORTELMonaco 2006, exhibitors have committed to more than 85% of the expanded floor space in the Grimaldi Forum.
Nationwide has also recently agreed deals with the English, Scottish and Northern Irish Football Associations in a total package reported to be worth £25m.
The Football Association of Wales announced a four-year extension of its sponsorship deal with Nationwide Building Society.
The four-year deal kicks off with England's forthcoming international against European Champions, Greece, on Wednesday 16 August at Old Trafford and will run through until the end of July 2010, after
Nationwide Building Society and The Football Association (The FA) announced today (Friday 11 August 2006), a new partnership that will see Nationwide become the exclusive Official England Team Sponsor.
The South Africa organising committee has said that the total stadium costs for the 2006 World Cup will be about 6 billion rand.
Work on three new stadiums in Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth in preparation for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa will be completed in three years.
The 2005/06 Series, won for the first time by Fiji, experienced 1147 hours of airtime over the eight tournaments, representing an 85 percent increase on the previous year.
The International Rugby Board (IRB) has announced another year of record TV broadcast figures for the popular IRB Sevens World Series.
The city’s Mayor, Helen Zille, agreed to the project on condition the national government pays most of the $420m cost.
Cape Town’s local government agreed to the construction of a new stadium in the city for football's 2010 World Cup.
India has been somewhat reluctant to embrace the latest short form version of cricket which was devised in an attempt to win a new audience for the sport.
With little over a year to go ahead of the first Twenty20 World Championship, India has scheduled its first domestic tournament.
MTN will operate in the product area of mobile telecommunication services which spans all key technologies in the mobile sector, including services to media and Fifa as well as to the Organising Commi
African company MTN Group signed a global deal as the first African World Cup Sponsor until 2010. The agreement, reported to be worth $65 million, gives MTN global rights for the 2010 World Cup South Africa as well as for the Confederations Cup in 2009.
The agreement consists of all audiovisual rights for both free and pay TV as well as radio rights.
South African public-service broadcaster SABC acquired the rights for all Fifa competitions from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
McDonalds has been an official partner of the World Cup since the 1994 tournament in the United States.
Fast food giant McDonalds renewed its long-term deal with Fifa as a World Cup Sponsor, until 2014.
The deal worth $30 million represents the biggest ever sponsorship contract in the bank’s history and underscores its commitment to football.
South Africa’s First National Bank signed up with Fifa, world football’s governing body, as a National Supporter for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
