Eastern Europe

The Polish Football Association (PZPN) has said that FIFA intervention had failed to resolve a dispute with the government which could see Poland barred from international competition.
Media

Satellite TV interests in Poland are expected to merge in order to accelerate profitability in eastern Europe's strongest television market.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Newcastle United's St. James' Park will host England's World Cup qualifier against Albania, the FA has said.
Events

News Corp and Liberty Media has announced that its joint venture Fox Sports International is to launch a sports television channel targeting viewers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.

European basketball is set to be split into two opposing camps in Thessaloniki today when newcomers ULEB will challenge the sport's governing body FIBA by announcing its own rival to the recently launched Suproleague.

Russia's skiing federation (RSF) has been forced to cancel two World Cup cross country skiing races because of lack of funds, a senior federation official has said.
Stadia

Rising violence amongst Romanian soccer fans has spawned a new phenomenon in the country's post-communist sport - the gun-carrying soccer star.

Business

The head of a leading sport marketing company in Romania has slammed the International Gymnastics Federation (GIF) for failing to allow payment at GIF sanctioned events.
Media

Extreme Sports Channel, the adventure and adrenaline sports service, is now available on digital cable in Germany.

Czech soccer club AC Sparta Prague may be up for sale, a spokesman for the club's Slovak owner has told the SITA news agency.
Media

Bayern Munich is ready to invest in several players to build a new, stronger team, club president Franz Beckenbauer said on Tuesday.
Business

Olympic organisers could be forced to switch soccer games away from Canberra because of worries that its new playing surface would not be ready.
Business

Michael Richter of the Czech advertising agency IP Praha has said his company's revenues from ads during the World Cup will bebetween 25 and 30 million crowns.
Business

European soccer governing body UEFA says it will announce the winner of the bid to host the 2004 European Championships in October.
Business

KGB chief Vladimir Matskevich has been installed as head of the Belarus Biathlon Federation in an effort to improve the country's standing in the sport.

Business

Only clubs which can prove they are financially stable and soundly managed will be allowed to compete in fixtures organised by UEFA from the 2003-04 season, European soccer's governing body has announced.

Hrigory Surkis, the powerful boss of champions Dynamo Kiev, has been elected president of the Ukrainian Football Federation (UFF).

The Polish Sports Ministry has welcomed a proposal by the country's top soccer clubs to stave off the threat of an international ban.