Premiership Rugby

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Sponsorship & Marketing

Premiership Rugby has announced a new sponsorship with Israeli online trading and investment platform eToro
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Governance

The UK government has appointed two independent advisers to help address rugby union’s financial crisis, as London Irish battles to avoid the same fate that befell former Premiership clubs Wasps and W…
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Media

Premiership Rugby has entered into an agreement with media company Ocean Outdoor, which will broadcast highlights of matches on large-format digital out-of-home screens
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Governance

Premiership Rugby has outlined plans to “relaunch” the top tier of English club rugby union, with Rob Calder, commercial director of the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB), having been recently appointed to …
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Technology

Premiership Rugby, organising body of the top tier of English club rugby union, has announced that its Premiership Rugby Cup will become the first professional northern hemisphere competition to trial…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Whisky brand The Famous Grouse has furthered its presence within domestic rugby union in the UK by becoming the broadcast sponsor of Premiership Rugby on broadcaster ITV Sport
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Governance

English rugby union side Leicester Tigers has been fined almost £310,000 ($404,643/€368,536) for breaching Premiership Rugby’s salary cap regulations across a four-year period, it has been announced. 
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Media

French digital media company Sportall has reached an agreement cover the Gallagher Premiership, the top tier of club rugby union in England, via its Rugbyzone.tv streaming service
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Media

Premiership Rugby’s new global live streaming service will offer matches filmed using an eight-camera high-definition production as the league rolls out its direct-to-consumer strategy that it believes c…
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Media

Premiership Rugby, the top tier of English club rugby union, is launching a new streaming service that will allow fans to watch live coverage of every match not already shown by domestic rights-holders
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Industry Moves

Scott McCubbin, Premiership Rugby’s head of business development, has left his role and the league has started its search for his replacement. 
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Media

The top tier of English club rugby union will return to free-to-air television after Premiership Rugby agreed a new rights deal with commercial broadcaster ITV
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Premiership Rugby has named Fuller’s London Pride as the league’s official beer in a multi-year agreement announced today (Wednesday).
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Sponsorship & Marketing

US-based insurance firm Gallagher has extended its title sponsorship agreement with Premiership Rugby in a ‘multi-year’ renewal announced this morning.
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Industry Moves

Premiership Rugby, the organising body of the top division of English club rugby union, has today (Tuesday) ended its six-month search for a new chief executive by appointing Rugby Football Union chief…
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Finance & Law

A consortium which includes the South African World Cup-winning captain Francois Pienaar has agreed a deal worth £32m (€37m/$43m) to acquire Premiership Rugby side Saracens FC.
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Media

Stan Sport, the streaming service of Australian media group Nine Entertainment, has acquired rights to the English Premiership rugby union club competition
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Events

The Rugby Football Union Council has voted to extend the freeze on relegation from the Premiership and second-tier Championship for a further two seasons, a move which will see England's top rugby union…