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Real, Barca, Juve remain committed to ESL idea, other clubs agree peace deal with Uefa
Football clubs Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus have said they remain committed to the ideas that underpinned the recent European 'Super League' proposal and hit out at the "intolerable" pressure and…
FedEx delivers upgrade from Europa League to Champions League sponsor
Delivery services specialist FedEx will step up to become a sponsor of the Uefa Champions League across the 2021-24 cycle
Sponsorship left out of European Super League rights equation
Champions League sponsors and major agencies were not consulted ahead of the European Super League’s failed launch last month
LIVENow lands Euro 2020 rights in Singapore, agrees distribution with telcos
Pay-per-view streaming platform LIVENow has acquired media rights in Singapore for Uefa Euro 2020 and agreed distribution deals with local telcos Singtel and Starhub
Uefa outlines Women’s Champions League financial model with €24m to be distributed
Uefa, football’s European governing body, has revealed details of a new financial distribution model for its Women’s Champions League club competition, which will see €24m ($29m) redistributed to teams…
Uefa investigates Ibrahimović’s ties to betting firm
European football’s governing body Uefa has launched a probe into allegations that AC Milan and Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimović holds a financial stake in a betting company, contrary to Uefa and Fifa re…
‘Binding contracts’ were signed for ESL, says Pérez
Florentino Pérez, president of Spanish LaLiga football club Real Madrid and founding chairman of the European Super League, has maintained that the 12 clubs that signed up to the breakaway competition …
Best of 2021 | ESL failure leaves governance questions untested
Even as the European Super League project floundered in the face of political and public opposition, its architects claimed it was 'fully aligned' with the law. Ben Cronin asks legal experts to assess the legal merits of the breakaway plot and asks what it means for the European sports model.
Bilbao and Dublin’s Euro 2020 matches reallocated, Munich retained as host
Uefa has today (Friday) announced that Bilbao and Dublin have been stripped of hosting rights for this summer’s rescheduled European Championships, with the former’s matches to be transferred to Seville and…
Sports QC: ESL rebels’ access to Uefa information poses disciplinary question
The European Super League founders’ access to confidential financial information ahead of their plans to create the breakaway competition could leave them open to disciplinary action from football governing b…
Bilbao ‘stripped of Euro 2020 rights’, fresh Irish government doubts over Dublin hosting
Basque authorities have hit out at Uefa after claiming European football’s governing body has dropped Bilbao as a host city for the rescheduled Euro 2020, while Dublin’s hosting status is also looking pre…
Juventus’ Agnelli admits Super League can’t go ahead following club withdrawals
Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli, one of the chief architects of the European Super League, has said the competition can no longer go ahead with nine clubs having now withdrawn their support
Woodward to step down from Man United role, Al-Khelaifi retains Uefa ExCo seat
Ed Woodward is to step down from his role as executive vice-chairman of English Premier League football club Manchester United at the end of the year
European Super League project crumbling as clubs withdraw
The controversial European Super League is on the brink of failure following the withdrawal of all six Premier League clubs involved in the project
Uefa revenues drop to €3bn as fewer matches, rebates take effect
Uefa, football’s European governing body, recorded revenues of €3.04b
The European Super League: A SportBusiness Media analysis
European Super League project collapses after English clubs withdraw on Tuesday evening
The ESL was projecting commercial revenue of about €4bn per season
Team pushes on with Uefa club competition tenders in Canada, Southeast Asia
Team Marketing has initiated the broadcast rights sales process for the Uefa club competitions from 2021-22 to 2023-24 in Canada and an array of countries and territories in Southeast Asia
Bach says ESL puts sport model ‘under threat’ as Infantino ‘strongly disapproves’
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has said that the existing structure of European sports is under threat as he weighed in on the proposed breakaway competition The Super League