Owen Evans

UEFA has found a way to better understand its fanbase through a market segmentation campaign. Matt Cutler reports.

English Football Association (FA) director and ex-FIFA Task Force Member, Heather Rabbatts, on the future of world football’s governing body and how women’s sport is entering the commercial mainstream.

Broadcasters, event organisers and sponsors have tried and failed to crack the sporting code in India, in an attempt to reach the country’s billion-plus cricket-mad population. We hear from the insiders who have succeeded.

Athletics is on the brink of new leadership for the first time in 16 years, with two Olympic and athletic legends – Sebastian Coe and Sergey Bubka - facing off in the battle to succeed Lamine Diack as president of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations). We asked industry insiders who is odds on to win the sport’s biggest race.

Owen Evans speaks to Gian-Franco Kasper, newly-appointed interim chairman of SportAccord, about his plan to dismantle the union in order to get it back into the Olympic Family.

English Premier League clubs have voted to remove the League's title sponsor category once Barclays existing deal expires at the end of the 2016/17 season.

 

 

Is the rebranding of sports federations a waste of time and money?

Columbia University’s MSc in Sport Management is in the running to win the title of best course in the world in its debut appearance in SportBusiness International’s Postgraduate Sports Course Rankings. 

Owen Evans spoke to the FIFA presidential race’s inner circle – ex-members, lobbyists and national association chairmen – to see whether anyone can actually oust Sepp Blatter from his FIFA throne.

Sport’s major rights-holders will be watching closely this month as the European Commission (EC) unveils its attack against thegeo-blocking of media content. Owen Evans finds out what it could mean for the sale of broadcast rights going forward.