Europe

Uefa has announced that 19 members associations have put forward final bid dossiers for Euro 2020, with London and Munich set to compete for the showpiece package of the national team football tournament.

The European Olympic Committees (EOC) has announced that Simon Clegg will replace Jim Scherr as chief operating officer of the Baku 2015 European Games organising committee.

The race to land the showpiece hosting package for Uefa Euro 2020 was thrown wide open today as the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) elected to withdraw its bid in favour of concentrating its efforts on landing the 2024 edition of the national team tournament.

Glasgow 2014 deputy chief executive Ty Speer has left his post less than three months before the Commonwealth Games arrive in the Scottish city.

The final of the DFB-Pokal, German club football’s top cup competition, will remain at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium through 2020 under an extended agreement between the German Football Association (DFB) and the City of Berlin.

AC Milan has moved to deny the latest takeover speculation surrounding the club, rejecting reports that Singapore-based businessman Peter Lim has made a €500m ($690m) bid for the Serie A football team.

Michel Platini, president of European football’s governing body Uefa, said he does not expect clubs that breach its Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules to be banned from next season’s Champions League or Europa League club competitions.

English Premier League football club Liverpool has unveiled plans to expand its Anfield home to a capacity of around 58,800 as it bids to end a long-running saga over the future of its historic stadium.

The field of contenders for hosting rights to Uefa Euro 2020 has been narrowed ahead of Friday’s deadline for submission of final bid dossiers, with Poland, Portugal and the Czech Republic all withdrawing their candidacies for the national team football tournament.

Vladimir Katrenko, a director of the Russian state Audit Chamber, has said there is an “urgent” need to improve the legacy plans for the venues of the Sochi 2014 winter Olympic Games.

The English Football Association (FA) has suffered a £34m (€41.8m/$56.9m) drop in income during a year in which the governing body set a record for the amount it re-invested in the sport.

Spanish Liga football club Barcelona will be able to strengthen its squad during the summer transfer window after Fifa elected to suspend a ban it had imposed on the Catalan giant.

The Slingshot Sponsorship agency has launched a new division that will primarily focus on commercial opportunities in the sports industry.

Sochi has submitted a bid to host the International Skating Union’s (ISU) 2017 World Figure Skating Championships as the Russian city looks to build a tangible legacy from its staging of this year’s winter Olympic Games.

Havas Sports & Entertainment (HS&E), the brand engagement agency of the Havas Group, has appointed Tove Okunniwa as the new chief executive of its UK division.

The JTA agency has received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade in recognition of the company’s recent growth in revenue and number of clients from outside the UK.