Fausto Zanetton, chief executive of Tifosy Capital & Advisory, discusses why player salaries have become such a burning issue for clubs, the knock-on affects of France’s media rights cycle, and the potential long-term impacts of the shutdown.
Asian football fan clubs cry out for live digital experiences during shutdown
SportBusiness speaks to Asian fan clubs of European football teams to see what they made of their favourite teams' efforts to keep them engaged during the pandemic.
The Scudamore years | The search for a successor
The Premier League has expanded at such a precipitous rate under Richard Scudamore’s leadership that most experts seem to agree that it will need to appoint more than one person to replace the outgoing c…
US entrepreneur Kirchner announces interest in acquiring Derby County
American entrepreneur Chris Kirchner has announced his intention to buy the financially-stricken English Championship club Derby County.
Barcelona gains backing for Barça Studios stake sale, €1.5bn Espai Barça financing
FC Barcelona’s delegate members have given the embattled Spanish LaLiga football club the green light to seek to sell off a stake in its Barça Studios arm and set up a financing operation worth up to €1…
Silver Lake ‘in advanced talks’ for A-Leagues stake
US investment firm Silver Lake is close to acquiring a 30-per-cent stake in the commercial rights business of Australia's domestic football leagues, according to Australian newspapers the Sun-Herald and…
LFP ‘seeking €1.5bn’ from investors in commercial subsidiary
France’s Professional Football League (LFP) is seeking an investment of €1.5bn ($1.75b
Sport’s human rights procedures a ‘black box’ with no transparency, campaigners say
Over the last five years, sport’s major governing bodies have integrated human rights into their decision-making processes. But for human rights campaigners, there is a lack of transparency around these processes which makes it impossible to assess how they are being applied, or indeed if they are being adhered to at all. Frank Dunne reports.
LaLiga experiments in race for global growth
Imran Yusuf travels to Barcelona to visit the production studios of LaLigaTV, the Spanish top-flight’s 24/7 television channel, to examine how the league is focusing on innovation to compete in a squeezed media rights market.
Pac-12 Conference commissioner Kliavkoff on the transformation of US college sports
In this week’s episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview George Kliavkoff, commissioner of the Pac-12 Conference. Eric and Chris also discuss National Basketball Association’s league-level cryptocurrency sponsorship deal with Coinbase, a $100m (€86m) funding round for startup digital collectibles company Candy Digital, and ongoing turbulence in the United States’ regional sports network business. They also explore the acquisition by OneFootball and Eleven of a pool of international rights for nine European football leagues, as well as increasing scrutiny from the US House of Representatives on the National Football League and Washington Football Team.
Machine learning: What should a sports AI project look like?
A panel of AI experts attempted to demystify machine learning at a recent session of the ‘Access Innovation’ coaching series. Rebecca Hopkins summarises the takeaways from the event.