Scotland

Rugby Union
Events

The European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) body has announced that the 2016 finals of its European Rugby Cup and Champions Challenge Cup club rugby union tournaments will take place in the French city of Lyon before Scotland hosts the showpiece matches in 2017.

Football
Business

Scottish Premier League champion Celtic has been granted permission to re-introduce a standing area at its Celtic Park home stadium in Glasgow.

Athletics
Events

The cities of Glasgow and Berlin are set to co-host a new European multi-sport event in 2018, it was announced today (Thursday).

Public spending on the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games was more than £37m (€50.7m/$57m) under budget, according to a new report by Scotland’s Accounts Commission.

Martial Arts
Business

British Judo has criticised the European Judo Union (EJU) after the cancellation of Glasgow’s hosting rights to the 2015 European Judo Championships was confirmed.

Martial Arts
Business

The European Judo Union (EJU) has stripped its 2015 European Championships from Glasgow amid a dispute over the British Judo Association’s (BJA) signing of a commercial partnership with mixed martial arts organisation the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

Golf
Business

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A) has revealed that Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, British golfer Dame Laura Davies and Sweden’s Annika Sorenstam are among the seven women chosen to take up the first female honorary memberships in its 260-year history.

Football

Rangers have rejected a takeover bid from Robert Sarver but extended an invitation for the US businessman to invest in the Scottish Championship football club.

Football
Business

Embattled Scottish football giant Rangers has confirmed it has received an £18m (€22.6m/$28.1m) takeover approach from American businessman Robert Sarver, owner of NBA basketball franchise the Phoenix Suns.

Tennis
Sponsorship & Marketing

British tennis star Andy Murray has agreed a new long-term deal with sportswear company Under Armour.

Curling
Events

The World Curling Federation (WCF) has announced that Scotland will host four major international curling championships between 2016 and 2020.

Badminton
Events

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has taken the “extraordinary and unanimous step” of awarding its 2017 World Championships to Glasgow following the Scottish city’s failed bid for the same year’s Sudirman Cup national mixed team competition.

Golf
Events

Golf’s European Tour and two-time Ryder Cup player Paul Lawrie have launched a new matchplay tournament.
Business

Organisers of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games have reported that the cost of the multi-sport event will come in at £25m (€32m/$40m) under budget.

Golf
Events

Ryder Cup organisers have launched an online service dedicated to guarding against ticket fraud ahead of the 2014 edition of the golf tournament, which gets underway at Gleneagles, Scotland on September 23.

Football

Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has promised to “safeguard” the interests of Scottish athletes ahead of the 2016 summer Olympic Games should the country vote in favour of independence.
Events

The Scottish city of Glasgow has followed up its successful Commonwealth Games by securing the hosting rights for the 2018 European Aquatics Championships.

Golf
Events

Kingsbarns Golf Links in Fife, Scotland has been selected to host the 2017 Women’s British Open.