Uefa Champions League
EXCLUSIVE: Volkswagen will not sponsor Euro 2024 in Germany, citing need for ‘cost discipline’
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.
Viaplay’s Danish boss targets Champions League as key ‘growth driver’
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
EXCLUSIVE: Heineken renews Champions League sponsorship
Heineken has agreed a three-year renewal of its global sponsorship deal with the Uefa Champions League, SportBusiness can exclusively reveal
Shinai nets exclusive digital rights to Uefa club competitions
Chinese media group Shinai Sports has announced an exclusive digital rights deal for Uefa club competitions for the 2023-24 season, bolstering its portfolio of top-tier football properties
LaLiga TV Bar nets Uefa club competition ‘horeca’ rights
LaLiga’s channel for public establishments, LaLiga TV Bar, has acquired exclusive hospitality rights for Uefa club competitions from 2024-25 to 2026-27, beefing up its content offering and supplementing t…
Galatasaray thanks Azerbaijan and Turkey presidents for support in Socar deal
Azerbaijani national oil company Socar has signed a main shirt sponsorship deal with Turkish Süper Lig club Galatasaray covering European competition only in an agreement that has political as well as …
Telefónica renews Uefa rights at slight decrease, hit with €5m F1 rights fine
Spanish telecoms operator Telefónica has renewed its exclusive Uefa club competition rights for a further three seasons, achieving a slight reduction in the overall cost.
Uefa invites logistics category bids for men’s club competitions
Uefa, European football's governing body, has launched a tender process in the logistics category to sponsor its leading men's club competitions
Budapest and Milan in box seat for Champions League finals
European football’s governing body Uefa has announced it has received declarations of interest from nine member associations to host club competition finals in 2026 and 2027, with Budapest’s Puskás Arén…
EXCLUSIVE: Disney, WBD set to renew UCL rights across LatAm
Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are in line to renew their Uefa Champions League rights deals across Latin America and Brazil, respectively, SportBusiness understands
EXCLUSIVE: PepsiCo renews Champions League rights, Mastercard and Heineken deals close
PepsiCo has agreed a three-year extension of its global sponsorship deal for the Uefa Champions League while Heineken and Mastercard are also close to announcing renewals with Europe’s premier club football c…
Canale 5 nears 9m viewers for Champions League final, French and German figures drop
Saturday evening’s Uefa Champions League final registered the highest free-to-air audience in Italy since 2017 as Inter Milan lost out to Manchester City.
Uefa goes to market in Ireland with club competition rights
Broadcast rights are on the market in the Republic of Ireland for Uefa club competitions in the 2024-27 cycle
RTL lands Champions League rights in Hungary for first time
Commercial broadcaster RTL has acquired rights in Hungary to the Uefa Champions League while retaining its rights in the country to the Europa League and Europa Conference League
Inter agrees 11th-hour Paramount+ shirt deal for Champions League final
Inter Milan has agreed an 11th-hour shirt sponsorship deal with Paramount+ covering the team’s appearance in next weekend’s Uefa Champions League final against Manchester City.
Uefa launches watch category RFP for men’s club competitions
Uefa is inviting sponsorship bids from companies in the branded watch category for Uefa men’s club competitions for the 2024-27 commercial cycle.
Inter’s Champions League semi-final win nets record Italian audience
Inter Milan’s victory over city rivals AC Milan in last night’s Uefa Champions League semi-final second leg generated Italy’s highest free-to-air audience of the season for a club football match.
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United Media nets Uefa club rights in Slovenia
United Media, the broadcasting group across Southeast Europe, has acquired exclusive rights in Slovenia to an extensive package of Uefa club competition rights for the new three-year cycle