Uefa Champions League

FedEx has extended as a global sponsor of the Champions League for a further three years, taking its association with Uefa past a decade, SportBusiness can exclusively reveal.

Uefa has cleared Manchester City and Manchester United to compete in its club competitions next season, saying it is satisfied that they have no direct influence at Girona FC and OGC Nice, respectively.

The Uefa Champions League will continue to get a weekly free-to-air window in Greece, after commercial broadcaster Mega TV sub-licensed a package of rights from pay-television's Cosmote TV

Megogo, the over-the-top streaming platform, has retained exclusive rights in Ukraine to all Uefa club competitions in the new three-year cycle

BeIN Sports is close to finalising a deal that would see it hold Uefa club competition rights in all its active Asian markets, SportBusiness understands

Sky Italia has opted against opening up free-to-air coverage of Uefa club competitions in Italy next season via the on-sale of rights or on its own TV8 channel.

Uefa has opted to canvass the agency market again for global commercial rights sales to its flagship club competitions in a request for proposal process inviting bids over three or six seasons.

Highlight Communications, the parent company of the Team Marketing agency, has been delivered a boost with the removal of major investor Alexander Studhalter from the US Office of Foreign Assets sanctions…

The Uefa Champions League final was the third most-watched on record in homes across the United States, while also setting a new milestone for Paramount+, the streaming service.

PrimeTel has renewed a content distribution deal and ceded the management of its sports rights to fellow telco Cyta in a shake-up of the Cypriot market

Uefa and its appointed Team Marketing agency have gone to market with European club competition media rights in New Zealand, a tough sales territory given the demise of former rights-holder Spark Sport.

Nova has retained rights in the Czech Republic to the Uefa Champions League, completing its set of European club competition rights for the 2024-27 cycle.

Commercial and pay-television broadcaster bTV and Telekom Austria-owned telco A1 have renewed their rights in Bulgaria to Uefa club competitions, ahead of the current three-year deals ending this Saturday with the Champions League final. 

Viaplay Group has ended a tumultuous 12 months by strengthening its position as the dominant football broadcaster in its home Nordics region, picking up exclusive Uefa Champions League rights in Sweden and retaining its contract in Denmark.

Oppo's global sponsorship deal with the Uefa Champions League may be under threat as European football's governing body has invited bids from mobile handset makers for its next club competition commercial cycle.

Growing uncertainty over the future of Milan's San Siro stadium has forced Uefa to delay a decision on the host of its showpiece Champions League final in 2027.

The finals of this season’s Uefa club competitions will be streamed for free on discovery+ as Warner Bros. Discovery seeks to generate more subscriptions for the platform, with the matches to no longer be shown on YouTube.

Wowow, the pay-television broadcaster in Japan, has retained exclusive media rights to Uefa club competitions in the country for the 2024-27 cycle