Europe

Golf

Golf’s European Tour has added a new event to its 2014 calendar in the shape of the NH Collection Open, which will be staged at La Reserva de Sotogrande Club de Golf in Andalucia, Spain on April 3-6.
 

Football

Spanish Liga and Segunda Division football clubs cut their debt to the country’s tax authorities by 20.8 per cent between January 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013, according to the Spanish government.

Rugby Union

England Rugby 2015, the organising committee for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, has launched its volunteer programme for the event.

Rugby Union
Business

The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) believes “positive and constructive” progress has been made in the effort to break the impasse surrounding the future of the European club game, following a meeting of Six Nations unions and clubs in Paris today (Wednesday).

Horse Racing
Business

UK horse racing stakeholders have joined forces to form a new company designed to enhance the sport’s control and licensing of data.

The seventh edition of the annual Leaders Sport Summit will take place in London on October 8-9, 2014, organisers of the event have announced.

Football
Business

Insurance company Allianz has acquired an 8.33-per-cent stake in Bayern Munich as part of a deal to extend its naming rights agreement for the German Bundesliga top-tier football club’s stadium until 2041.

Rugby League

Leeds Rhinos chief executive Gary Hetherington has called on English Super League and Australian NRL officials to approve the expansion of the World Club Challenge from 2015 stating the move would present increased broadcast and commercial revenues for rugby league.

Sailing

Sailing’s World Match Racing Tour has announced the schedule for its 2014 Match Racing World Championship, with a new event set to debut in Sopot, Poland.
Events

Gerhard Heiberg, the outgoing chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Marketing Commission, has called for schoolchildren and members of the armed forces to be allowed to fill empty seats at the Sochi 2014 winter Olympic Games.

Winter Sports

Oslo’s bid leaders for the Norwegian city’s tilt at the 2022 winter Olympic Games have said they are confident in securing the financial support and public backing necessary to justify its status as a favourite to land the multi-sport event.

Rugby Union

Italian rugby union club Benetton Treviso has said it will exit the Pro12 at the end of the current season due to uncertainty over the league’s future.
Events

Sport Event Denmark, the national event bidding agency, has retained its role as a gold partner of SportAccord Convention for the 2014 edition in Belek/Antalya, Turkey.

Football

English Premier League football club West Ham United has agreed a deal to sell its Upton Park stadium once its move to London’s Olympic Stadium is completed in 2016.

Winter Sports

Ukrainian Olympic Committee president Sergei Bubka has maintained the political turmoil in the country will not derail Lviv’s bid for the 2022 winter Olympic Games.

Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, told the watching world to expect “a spectacular show” as the opening ceremony kicked off the 2014 Sochi winter Olympic Games this (Friday) afternoon.

Cycling

Vuelta a España organisers have said they are in talks to open the 2017 edition of the cycling race in the French city of Nîmes, with successful agreement of terms set to mark only the third time that the event has commenced outside Spain.

Football

Massimo Cellino, the owner of Cagliari, has reached a deal to sell the Italian Serie A top-tier football club to Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) owners the Al Thani family, according to Gazzetta dello Sport.