United Arab Emirates

Online ticket company ts.com has scooped the award of `best application service provider? at a Euro-wide award ceremony.

European soccer has expanded its reach even further after the UEFA Champions League signed a joint TV rights deal with two Middle Eastern broadcasters to show simultaneous coverage of the competition in Arabic and English every Wednesday night.

Ken Bates, chairman of London soccer club Chelsea, has defended ticket prices for the new West Stand at Stamford Bridge where fans could pay #197 ($287) per match next season.

The Thailand Football Association has written to FIFA to request a change of venue for their Asian World Cup qualifying match scheduled for Baghdad on Friday, a Thai official said on Tuesday.

Tim Clarke, chief director airline, Air Emirates, the new $36million shirt sponsors of Premier League club Chelsea, has told sportbusiness.com why the west London club was chosen as ?one of the cornerstones of the Emirates global portfolio of sponsorships?

International Cricket Council President Jagmohan Dalmiya will recommend that Kenya hosts the ICC knockout tournament next year.

Turkey wants to build a Formula One circuit in Istanbul within three years, the head of the Turkish Automobile Federation said on Thursday.

London Premier League club Chelsea confirmed they had signed a four-year deal with Dubai-based airline Emirates worth #24 million ($35 million).

Prize money for the millennium Dubai World Cup meeting - horse racing's richest event - will be $12 million, almost double this year's figure.

United Arab Emirates cricket authorities demanded yesterday that all of their team's matches in the ICC Trophy be replayed because two of their top players were refused entry into Canada.

The Dubai World Cup and online ticketing firm ts.com have teamed up to enable tickets for the 2001 race to be sold online via the World Cup?s official website.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has said that grounds which fail to guarantee the safety of players and umpires could be stripped of their international status.

The future of Go Racing, the UK broadcasting consortium run by BskyB, Arena Leisure and Channel 4, was still looking fragile today after Dubai horse breeding family the Maktoums voiced concerns over the group?s #307m ($435m) horseracing media deal.

English football club Chelsea is on the verge securing an #18million ($26m), three-year deal with leading airline Emirates, which would be the second-biggest shirt sponsorship in football.

Moscow may be on the Formula One Grand Prix map as soon as 2003, if the International Automobile Federation (FIA) gets its way.

Many of snooker?s top stars look set to join a breakaway tour which threatens to split the sport and end the domination of the game by its governing body, the WSA, following plans announced by The Sportsmasters Network (TSN).