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Leaders has announced that senior executives from the BBC, Facebook, Bleacher Report and Major League Gaming will speak at the seventh edition of the Leaders Sport Business Summit, which takes place on October 8-9 in London.

The 2015 edition of rugby league’s Super League Magic Weekend will take place at St James’ Park, the home of English Premier League football club Newcastle United.

American football league the NFL has promoted Mark Waller to the role as executive vice-president of international ahead of its latest set of regular season games in London this autumn.

Top executives from the NBA basketball league and Uefa and Fifa, football’s European and global governing bodies, respectively, are the latest to confirm they will speak at the Leaders Sport Business Summit next month.

The annual World Club Challenge between rugby league clubs from Europe and Australia will expand to a six-team competition from 2015.

Leaders has announced that the seventh edition of the Leaders Sport Business Summit is set to sell out in record time.

Work to convert the London 2012 Olympic Stadium for use by English Premier League football team West Ham United is set to cost an additional £15m (€18.8m/$24.9m), according to UK broadcaster Sky News.

The English Premier League has smashed its transfer spending record in the summer 2014 window, with the £835m (€1.05bn/$1.38bn) gross expenditure of domestic clubs being close to double that of the next highest-spending league – the Spanish Liga.

Hans Erik Tuijt, global activation director for Heineken and Christian Deuringer, director of global brand management at Allianz, are the latest speakers to be revealed for the Leaders Sport Business Summit, which takes place on October 8-9 at Stamford Bridge in London.

English Premier League club Manchester United has launched on Line, one of Asia’s largest social messaging platforms.

English Premier League (EPL) football club Aston Villa has appointed former Arsenal chief commercial officer Tom Fox as its new chief executive.

British Cycling has announced that the velodrome used during London’s hosting of the 2012 summer Olympic Games will host the second round of the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) 2014-15 Track World Cup later this year.

Jim Pallotta, chairman and president of Italian Serie A football club AS Roma and managing director of financial services firm Raptor Group, is the latest speaker to be revealed for the Leaders Sport Business Summit in London on October 8-9.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has said he is still in favour of the contentious proposal to add a ‘39th game’ to the season, adding that he believes clubs in the top division of English football are also supportive of such a plan.

London will host the 2015 finals of the European Rugby Champions Cup and European Rugby Challenge Cup, the continent’s new premier rugby union club tournaments.

Newmarket racecourse will host the inaugural Varsity horse race between UK universities Oxford and Cambridge on October 17.