AFC Champions League

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Pay-television broadcaster C More has acquired rights in Finland and Sweden to the Asian Football Confederation’s club and national teams competitions across the 2021-24 cycle.
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Chinese FA Cup winners Shandong Luneng have been expelled from this year’s AFC Champions League after the confederation removed the club’s licence.
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The group stages of the AFC Champions League and the AFC Cup will be played in centralised 'hubs' this year due to due to ongoing Covid-19 travel restrictions
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The Asian Football Confederation has announced a rights deal with Turkish pay-television broadcaster D-Smart to broadcast AFC competitions in the country from 2021 to 2024
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The Lanka Premier League will start five days later from November 27 to December 17 and will only be played at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium in Hambantota
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The Beijing 2022 Organizing Committee is actively trying to involve more disabled people in benefiting from the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games – China.o
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Qatar's capital Doha will host this year's Asian Football Confederation Champions League final, on December 19. The final is usually played over two legs but will be a single match this year
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The Asian Football Confederation has announced that the outstanding East Zone Asian Champions League matches this season will be played in Doha, Qatar
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Reigning champions Al Hilal have been removed from the AFC Champions League after naming a line-up with only nine outfield players due to a Covid-19 outbreak
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The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has claimed that an AFC Champions League broadcast deal in the country has been terminated by the Asian Football Confederation due to “international s…
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The Asian Football Confederation Champions League is to restart later today, after a six-month suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with West Zone matches played in Qatar
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The Asian Football Confederation has cancelled the remainder of this year’s AFC Cup, Asia’s second-tier continental club football tournament, due to the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Asian Football Confederation has continued inroads into increasing its exposure in European markets by agreeing a broadcast rights deal with SIA Media Group covering Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania,…
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The Asian Football Confederation has sealed the first rights deal in Europe in its new rights cycle, agreeing a two-year contract across Germany, Austria and Switzerland with sports broadcaster Sport1
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SportBusiness spoke to Dato' Windsor John, general secretary of the Asian Football Confederation, about how the organisation has dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic and how it sees a brighter future, with a commercial rights contract getting underway and a Women's World Cup coming to the region in 2023.
Archery
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The International Olympic Committee will meet today to discuss ways of pushing ahead with plans for a "frugal" Tokyo Games next year
Football
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The AFC Champions League will restart in two regional hubs in September and October, the Asian Football Confederation said today (Thursday)
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The Asian Football Confederation has initiated a territory-by-territory broadcast rights sales process in 10 countries across the Middle East