Fifa World Cup

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Football's world governing body Fifa has said it is "deeply disappointed" at the end of a Swiss trial over an alleged fraud linked to the 2006 World Cup and involving former German footballer Franz Beckenbauer
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BeIN Sports, the global pay-television broadcaster, has expanded its on-demand offer in the Middle East and North Africa with Fifa World Cup content, documentaries and behind-the-scenes footage as the…
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Spain’s National Sports Council (CSD) has brought together LaLiga and the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) to form a pathway to return the domestic game amid Covid-19, with funding agreements reached a…
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Two former executives at US-based media giant 21st Century Fox and South American sports marketing agency Full Play have pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in New York as part of the long-running corruption…
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After the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Fifa has announced a series of measures and guidelines to address vagaries affecting players' contracts and transfer windows
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Two former 21st Century Fox executives have been charged with allegedly paying millions of dollars in bribes to help Fox Sports win the lucrative United States broadcasting rights to the 2018 and 2022…
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Brazilian Entertainment-led OTT platform Guigo TV is ready to challenge dominant media group Globo for the rights to Brazil’s away qualifiers for the 2022 Fifa World Cup, it has been claimed.
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Fifa’s chief commercial officer Simon Thomas has said the decision by the governing body to take its audiovisual archive services in-house has enabled it to offer more than 30 historic matches free of c…
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Fifa has opened up its match archive across its owned and social media channels and is allowing broadcast partners access to archive rights to fill their schedules during the Covid-19 outbreak
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International media rights agencies Mediapro and Pitch International will join forces to sell the exclusive broadcast rights in the United States to South American nation’s qualifying matches for the F…
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Qatar has taken another step towards addressing the accommodation challenges it faces for the 2022 Fifa World Cup after a partnership to offer an array of floating hotels was signed, while world football’s g…
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Football world governing body Fifa has ordered Indonesia to play its next World Cup qualifier, against the United Arab Emirates, behind closed doors, after crowd trouble during home games last year
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The English Football Association, which has been working on feasibility studies for a potential joint United Kingdom-Ireland bid to host the 2030 Fifa World Cup, said that a bid would be "very credible"…
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The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) of the Qatar 2022 Fifa World Cup has moved to address some of the accommodation issues surrounding the event by agreeing to charter two cruise ships for…
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World football’s governing body Fifa has launched an invitation to tender process for the centralised broadcast rights to all matches in the second round of qualifying, as well as the third-round play-offs, o…
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The Asian Football Confederation has approved a proposal by the All-Nepal Football Association for their 2022 World Cup qualifier fixture against Kuwait to be held in Bhutan on November 19
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) signed a memorandum of understanding on Saturday with football's global governing body Fifa, to increase football-related social responsibility projects…