Europe

Cycling
Events

Flanders Classics, the Belgian cycling event organiser, is to assume management of the Amstel Gold Race, the biggest cycling classic in the Netherlands, from the 2025 edition, it was announced today (Thursday)
Basketball
Media

Skweek, the basketball streaming platform owned by Monaco-based Fedcom Media, has made the UK its second market after launching in France last year on the back of various rights acquisitions
Football
Governance

Andreu Camps, a close ally of disgraced former president Luis Rubiales, has been dismissed as general secretary of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), as the governing body announced a "new stage"…
Football
Finance & Law

Chelsea has raised $500m (€466.7m) in fresh investment from US fund Ares Management as the club’s American owners seek to expand their multi-club network after spending more than $1bn on player transfers since buying the Premier League club from Russian Roman Abramovich in May 2022.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Heineken’s non-alcoholic beer brand Heineken 0.0 will not extend its sponsorship of the Uefa Europa League and Conference League after its current deal expires at the end of the 2023-24 season.
Football
Media

Streaming platform Fite has secured exclusive rights to the AFC Champions League for two seasons in the UK and Ireland, Belgium, France and the Netherlands, more than a year after its proposed deal for…
Basketball
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Chicago Bulls, one of the most recognisable brands in world sport, is recruiting for a director of international sales to drive a new revenue stream for the National Basketball Association franchise
Multiple Sports
Media

Banks that have loaned money to Viaplay have appointed an external adviser to aid negotiations over the subscription streaming broadcaster’s debt burden, it is claimed.
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

Vodafone Ireland has extended its principal sponsorship of the Ireland men’s rugby team in a four-year deal with the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU).
Football
Industry Moves

Ron Erskine, the experienced commercial executive who counts the Octagon and CSM Sport & Entertainment agencies as former employers, has joined Aston Villa as chief commercial officer (CCO)
Ice Hockey
Media

Slovakian public broadcaster RTVS has criticised the award of rights to the country’s top-tier ice hockey league to TV Joj after failing to reach terms on a sublicensing deal with the commercial network.
Multiple Sports
Media

Everyone TV, the organisation which runs free TV in the UK and is jointly owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, has unveiled plans for a new streaming service which aims to help ensure public-service television is sustained into the future.
Football
Media

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.
Football
Media

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)
Football
Governance

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.
Football
Media

OneFootball has renewed another key media deal in its home market after extending its agreement with Deutsche Telekom to stream live and highlights coverage of matches from German men’s football’s thi…
Football
Industry Moves

Sports executive Andrea Ekblad has joined the Football Association as ‘Broadcast Lead - Women’s Professional Game’, in a role that covers the top two tiers of women’s football in England, the Women’s Super Lea…
Football
Media

ITV has re-established itself as the home of the England men's national football team, after the UK commercial broadcaster picked up a slate of rights for the 2024 to 2028 cycle