Italy

Cycling
Business

Jerusalem in Israel has secured hosting rights to the ‘Big Start’ of the 2018 Giro d’Italia cycling race, according to the Cycling Weekly website.

Motorsport
Events

Zoran Stefanovic, the businessman behind the failed effort to establish a Formula One team named Stefan GP, has revealed he is planning to form a new Italian-based entry for the motor racing series.

Football
Business

Italian Serie A football club Fiorentina has been placed up for sale, with owners the Delle Valle family acceding to unrest from the team’s fans.
Football
Stadia

Carlo Tavecchio, president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), has said that video assistant referees (VARs) will be introduced into the top-tier Serie A competition from the 2017-18 season.
Football
Business

Clubs in Serie A, the top division of Italian football, recorded a significant increase in revenue during the 2015-16 season as net losses were cut, according to the latest report on the financial health of the league.
Basketball
Events

Six clubs from the top divisions in Greece and Italy have signed up to compete in the second season of the Fiba Champions League European competition.
Tennis
Business

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has announced a series of rule changes and innovations that will be trialled at its inaugural Next Gen Finals event in November in an effort to attract new and younger fans to the sport.
Multi-sport
Business

Giovanni Malagò has been re-elected as president of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), while his counterpart at the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), Denis Masseglia, will serve a third term in office after seeing off rival candidates.
Football
Stadia

Italian Serie A football club Cagliari has announced that it will build a temporary stadium, which will be used while its new 21,000-capacity ground is being constructed.
Cycling
Business

Giro d’Italia organiser RCS Sport has hit out after being forced to cancel its plans to introduce a new classification to reward the cycling event’s best downhill rider amid a backlash over the safety implications of such an initiative.
Football
Business

Italian Football Federation (FIGC) president Carlo Tavecchio has signalled his intention to drive through reform at Lega Serie A after being installed as commissioner of the body that oversees the top division of domestic football.
Football
Business

The ‘Ndrangheta – the Calabrian mafia – has successfully infiltrated football in Italy. As Frank Dunne explains, some fear that its influence may now be spreading to Spain and beyond.
Motorsport
Events

The Italian capital of Rome looks set to host a leg on the Formula E electric car-racing circuit after city officials agreed to approve permits to stage a race.
Football
Business

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s holding company, Fininvest, has today (Thursday) completed the sale of its 99.93-per-cent stake in Serie A football club AC Milan to Luxembourg-based Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux.
Golf
Business

The Infront Sports & Media agency has entered into a partnership with the Italian Golf Federation.
Golf

Rome’s staging of the 2022 Ryder Cup has been secured after the Italian government signed off on a financial guarantee for the golf showpiece, along with Cortina d’Ampezzo’s hosting of the 2021 FIS Alpine Ski World Championships.
Multi-sport
Media

A free report, commissioned from SportBusiness by the Budapest 2024 Olympic Games bid, surveying attitudes to, and media consumption habits around, the Olympic Games.
Football
Business

The Chinese consortium seeking to acquire Italian Serie A football club AC Milan has seen its ailing efforts boosted through financial backing from US private equity fund Elliott, as the closing date for the takeover slips once more.