Europe
Events

The European Sponsorship Association (ESA) has revealed the shortlist for its 2011 Awards ahead of the final announcement on November 22 in Amsterdam.
Business

The UK government has issued a February deadline for the Football Association (FA) to introduce wide-ranging reforms to the governance of the English game, including controls on club debt and more stringent checks on foreign owners.
Events

QIPCO British Champions Series organisers have revealed increased annual attendances and television audiences ahead of the flat racing finale.
Business

UK Sports Minister Hugh Robertson has claimed the u-turn over the award of the London 2012 Olympic Stadium to West Ham United will end the “legal paralysis” surrounding the future of the venue.
Events

Russia 2018 chairman Vitaly Mutko has revealed the country will stage the FIFA World Cup in 12 stadia across 11 cities with the final makeup of the tournament expected to be formalised in October 2012.
Events

Golf’s most famous major tournament, The Open, will return to the home of the sport after it was announced that the 2015 edition of the event would be staged at St Andrews in Scotland.
Stadia

The UK Government will announce later today that the Olympic Park Legacy Company’s (OPLC) deal to allow West Ham United to move into the Olympic Stadium for the London 2012 Games has collapsed.
Host Broadcast & Production

London-based sports production company Input Media has won the contract to provide host broadcast coverage of the Women’s Tennis Association’s (WTA) year-ending Championships for the next three years.
Media

Football properties account for 79 per cent of spending by broadcasters on sports TV rights in the big five European nations - Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Spain - in 2011 according to latest figures.
Events

National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell has raised the prospect of adding a second regular-season game in London and revealed that an expansion of the International Series will be discussed at owners’ meetings this week.
Events

Ukraine’s showpiece venue for UEFA Euro 2012 re-opened its doors on Saturday as Kiev’s Olympic Stadium was unveiled following its troubled redevelopment.
Business

Manchester United chief executive David Gill has spoken of the “potential” offered by the club’s partial flotation on the Singapore Stock Exchange, adding that United’s owners are waiting for the right time to launch the listing.
Events

Sweden has been named as the host country of the 2015 International Federation of American Football (IFAF) Senior World Championship.
Events

The Qatar Association of Athletics Federation is prepared to pay an estimated cost of between US$300-400 million to renovate the Khalifa International Stadium in an attempt to bring the 2017 edition of the IAAF World Athletics Championships to Doha.
Media

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport has launched a new multilingual score app for the iPhone to coincide with tonight’s round of crucial international football fixtures.
Events

Senior figures from leading rugby clubs in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Italy will attend Rugby Expo 2011 at Twickenham Stadium in London next month after the event’s organisers, Rugby Ventures, struck a deal with RaboDirect PRO12.
Events

The nominations for the 2011 International Sports Event Management (ISEM) Awards have been confirmed, with a number of top organisations in the running to collect gongs at the black tie event.
Business

UEFA has unveiled plans for a ‘Week of Football’ concept that is set to revolutionise the scheduling and broadcasting of international football.