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Aston Villa is set to announce the biggest shirt sponsorship deal in its history, having agreed a two-year contract with Greek betting platform Betano.

Amazon Web Services has agreed an extension to its sponsorship agreement with the German Football League (DFL) that places a new emphasis on the company’s artificial intelligence technology.

The Sony Group has announced a multi-year agreement to become a founding partner of the Saudi-backed Esports World Cup, which takes place this summer in the kingdom’s capital city, Riyadh.

Brazilian bank Itaú Unibanco has agreed a four-year extension to its presenting sponsorship deal with tennis’ Miami Open.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen has served further notice of its ambitions to sign international sponsors by becoming the first German Bundesliga club to deploy parallel advertising technology during broadcast coverage of its home matches.

Fifa is recruiting new executives to join its in-house legal team after a large number of senior legal counsels handed in their notice in the space of a few months, SportBusiness understands.

Fifa is locked in a dispute with Dalian Wanda, one of its highest-paying sponsors, and has ceased activating the company’s sponsorship rights after the company missed scheduled payments in its contract with the federation.

Serie A has agreed a five-year extension to its contract with the Interregional Sports Group (ISG) that sees the specialist agency deploy virtual advertising across all 380 matches in the Italian topflight.

Castrol has served notice that it won’t extend its sponsorship of the Premier League when it expires at the end of the current season.

TGI Sport, the virtual advertising technology, media and marketing company part owned by Bruin Capital, is to provide an ‘end-to-end’ virtual advertising solution for the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).