Europe

Multiple Sports
Media

The Canal Plus name is to return to the Netherlands early next year, with the pay-television operator announcing that its new streaming platform in the country will include the Eredivisie, the top domestic…
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Host Broadcast Services, the Infront-owned sports broadcast production company, is to set up a UK business division, headquartered in London, next month
Rugby Union
Finance & Law

Increasing broadcast revenues has been cited as an immediate target for the Rugby Football Union (RFU), with the sector still lagging behind pre-Covid levels, the English governing body has revealed
Football
Governance

European football’s governing body Uefa has announced a major overhaul of its women’s club structures, with an expanded format for the Women’s Champions League and a new second-tier competition introduced. T
Football
Media

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.
Football
Media

The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) is to launch a new broadcast tender after finalising plans for a new league format, including play-offs, following a five-month consultation process.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Chinese tyre manufacturer ZC Rubber has signed with Arsenal as the club’s ‘Official Global Tyre Partner’ in a deal brokered by the EMW Global agency.
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Joel Seymour-Hyde has left his role as managing director of Octagon UK after more than 16 years with the agency
Multiple Sports
Media

Viaplay Group has laid out plans for a “recapitalisation programme” that includes a SEK4bn (€350m/$382m) new equity raise and SEK14.6bn debt renegotiation package as part of measures designed to stave off insolvency and subsequent bankruptcy.
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Castore, the UK sportswear manufacturer, is closing in on a £1bn (€1.16bn/$1.26bn) valuation, after securing £150m in a round of investment led by US bank Raine Group.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Bayern Munich and Adobe have decided to end their sponsorship agreement by mutual consent, just one year into a three-year contract.
Winter Sports
Events

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has taken the unprecedented step of outlining its planned Winter Olympic Games hosts for the next 15 years, much to the disappointment and annoyance of Sweden.
Football
Media

Streaming platform Fite has acquired exclusive rights in selected markets across Europe and Oceania to Portugal’s Primeira Liga until the end of the 2025-26 season.
Multiple Sports
Media

Premier Sports, the pay-television broadcaster, is to return to UK homes early next year after announcing it has reached an agreement to buy back the business that it sold to Nordic media giant Viaplay…
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

M&C Saatchi Sport and Entertainment (S&E) top executives Steve Martin and Jamie Wynne-Morgan have left the agency after nearly two decades following a major restructure of its UK operations.
Handball
Media

Every game from the upcoming EHF European Championships is to be shown live in the host country Germany by new streaming platform Dyn Media, it was announced today (Wednesday).
Football
Finance & Law

Serie A club Napoli has recorded record revenues of €359.2m ($394.1m) and profits of €79.7m for the 2022-23 financial year covering its Italian league title-winning season and run to the quarter-finals of the Uefa Champions League.
Football
Governance

The top two divisions in women's football in England have today (Tuesday) agreed unanimously to proceed with the formation of NewCo, a new organisation to run the professional game