Uefa Champions League

An in-depth SportBusiness investigation into football’s multi-club ownership phenomenon has charted Uefa’s collision course with powerful ownership groups such as City Football Group, Red Bull and 777 Partners, as new ‘Swiss model’ formats in European club competitions are set to create conflicts of interest on an unprecedented scale.

Proximus has renewed an agreement for pay-television rights in Belgium to football’s Uefa Champions League, but it will no longer have exclusivity in the category after rival telco Telenet also secured rights for the 2024-27 cycle.

Uefa's media rights sales process for its club competitions has closed in Brazil, with incumbents Warner Bros. Discovery and commercial broadcaster SBT joined by fast-growing streaming platform CazéTV for the 2024-27 cycle.

Free-to-air Uefa Champions League rights have been sold in Belgium to incumbent commercial broadcasters RTL and VTM for the 2024-27 cycle

Uefa and Fifa are going head-to-head with tenders in sub-Saharan Africa for major football properties, after media rights to European club competitions hit the market today (Monday)

Greece is the next market off the block for Uefa and the Team Marketing agency as they look to close out the club competition media rights sales process ahead of the new cycle

Sport TV, the pay-television broadcaster, is to return as a Uefa Champions League rights-holder in Portugal for the first time in six years next season, it has been announced

Team Marketing has gone to market with Uefa club competition media rights across the Nordics, once one of the most bullish markets but which has softened considerably given the financial struggles of one…

Broadcast rights are on the market in Canada for Uefa club competitions across the 2024-27 cycle

Subscription broadcaster Premier Sports has picked up a significant package of rights in Ireland to Uefa club competitions in the new cycle

Broadcast rights are on the market in both Belgium and Portugal for Uefa club competitions in the 2024-27 cycle

Pay-TV broadcaster beIN Sports has once again been forced to curtail some of its live football output in France because of legislation pertaining to online financial trading firm Plus500.

Polish public-service broadcaster TVP has failed in a bid to negotiate a Uefa Champions League sublicensing deal ahead of the start of the group stage this evening (Tuesday)

Uefa president Aleksander Čeferin has rejected any possibility that Saudi Arabian teams could compete in the Champions League, or that European football’s showpiece cup final could be played in Riyadh.

Volkswagen will not sponsor next year’s Euro 2024, hosted in its home market of Germany, after deciding not to extend a deal covering Uefa’s men’s national team football competitions for ‘cost discipline’ reasons, SportBusiness can exclusively reveal.

Fresh off the back of retaining Danish Superliga rights, Viaplay has set its sights on keeping the Uefa Champions League on its screens in Denmark as it plots a path back to profitability