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Ceferin rejects Saudi Champions League links as ‘absolute nonsense’
Uefa president Aleksander Čeferin has rejected any possibility that Saudi Arabian teams could compete in the Champions League, or that European football’s showpiece cup final could be played in Riyadh.
ITV regains rights to England qualifiers, gets Nations League to 2028
ITV has re-established itself as the home of the England men's national football team, after the UK commercial broadcaster picked up a slate of rights for the 2024 to 2028 cycle
Wiesenhof named final Euro 2024 national sponsor
Uefa has completed its national sponsor tier for the men’s Euro 2024 tournament with the announcement of a deal with German poultry producer Wiesenhof.
EXCLUSIVE: Volkswagen will not sponsor Euro 2024 in Germany, citing need for ‘cost discipline’
Volkswagen will not sponsor next year’s Euro 2024, hosted in its home market of Germany, after deciding not to extend a deal covering Uefa’s men’s national team football competitions for ‘cost discipline’ reasons, SportBusiness can exclusively reveal.
Bitburger returns to national stage with Euro 2024
German beer company Bitburger has signed as an ‘Official National Partner’ of Euro 2024 – making the Bitburg-based brand the exclusive beer in all stadiums at the tournament.
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Uefa and ECA renew terms to 2030, commercial rights changes unlikely
Uefa and the European Club Association have renewed their pact until 2030, a move that looks set to maintain the existing commercial sales structure for another rights cycle at least
No native UHD production at Euro 2024
Uefa will not produce coverage of Euro 2024 in native ultra high-definition (UHD), instead opting for a single ‘multi-purpose’ broadcast format, SportBusiness can disclose.
Deutsche Telekom expands Euro 2024 presence with national sponsorship
German telco Deutsche Telekom has furthered its association with Euro 2024 by becoming a national sponsor of the event
EXCLUSIVE: Heineken renews Champions League sponsorship
Heineken has agreed a three-year renewal of its global sponsorship deal with the Uefa Champions League, SportBusiness can exclusively reveal
Shinai nets exclusive digital rights to Uefa club competitions
Chinese media group Shinai Sports has announced an exclusive digital rights deal for Uefa club competitions for the 2023-24 season, bolstering its portfolio of top-tier football properties
LaLiga TV Bar nets Uefa club competition ‘horeca’ rights
LaLiga’s channel for public establishments, LaLiga TV Bar, has acquired exclusive hospitality rights for Uefa club competitions from 2024-25 to 2026-27, beefing up its content offering and supplementing t…
Telefónica renews Uefa rights at slight decrease, hit with €5m F1 rights fine
Spanish telecoms operator Telefónica has renewed its exclusive Uefa club competition rights for a further three seasons, achieving a slight reduction in the overall cost.
Uefa hands Juventus one-year Conference League ban, fines Chelsea €10m
Serie A club Juventus has been banned from the 2023-24 Uefa Europa Conference League for breaches of Uefa's financial fairplay (FFP) regulations while Premier League club Chelsea has been fined €10m f…
UK, Ireland set to stage Euro 2028 as Turkey aligns with Italy on Euro 2032
The UK and Ireland’s bid to host the European Championship in 2028 is set to be rubber-stamped later this year after Turkey, the only other bidder, submitted a request to European governing body Uefa t…
RTL adds Euro 2024 qualifiers to football line-up
Commercial broadcaster RTL has topped up its live football offering in Germany, adding rights to 10 matches from the remainder of the Uefa Euro 2024 qualifying campaign
Sports betting, ecommerce among sponsorship categories on the market for Euro 2024
Uefa has opened the bidding process for commercial partners in at least four more categories for Euro 2024, as it looks to complete its sponsorship portfolio for the tournament in Germany
Uefa invites logistics category bids for men’s club competitions
Uefa, European football's governing body, has launched a tender process in the logistics category to sponsor its leading men's club competitions
Budapest and Milan in box seat for Champions League finals
European football’s governing body Uefa has announced it has received declarations of interest from nine member associations to host club competition finals in 2026 and 2027, with Budapest’s Puskás Arén…