Attendance

Basketball
Media

The Women's National Basketball Association set multiple records during the 2023 regular season, including drawing the league's best viewership in 21 years
Baseball
Attendance

Major League Baseball suffered record-low viewership of its All-Star Game, with 7.01 million viewers on Fox, but the July 14-16 weekend was the best attended of the season so far. The 7
Cricket
Media

Ary, the pay-television broadcaster in Pakistan, has acquired media rights in the country to the inaugural edition of the US-based Major League Cricket tournament
Football
Attendance

Major League Soccer has set a new single-game attendance record as 82,110 fans watched the LA Galaxy defeat Los Angeles FC 2-1 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on July 4
Baseball
Attendance

Major League Baseball recorded a Father's Day weekend surge in crowd numbers, part of an improvement to the league's overall attendances during the 2023 season
Football
Attendance

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has revealed that a record 9.05 million fans attended Ligue 1 matches during the 2022-23 season, a 16-per-cent increase on the previous campaign.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

National Women's Soccer League side NJ/NY Gotham FC has announced a "strategic partnership" with SL Benfica of the Campeonato Nacional Feminino
Basketball
Events

The Women's National Basketball Association's preseason game in Toronto, Canada proved to be a success, with more than 19,000 fans in attendance as the league eyes expansion into new markets
Basketball
Attendance

The National Basketball Association has announced that more than 22 million fans attended games in the 2022-23 regular season, with an average attendance per game exceeding 18,000 fans for the first time
Professional Wrestling
Finance & Law

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has announced that its two-day WrestleMania 39 event in Los Angeles, California's SoFi Stadium was the most successful WrestleMania in the company's history, with record…
Baseball
Media

The 2023 World Baseball Classic further set new records as the tournament concluded with Japan hanging on to defeat the United States 3-2 in the championship game
Football
Governance

Ahead of the National Women's Soccer League's 11th season, commissioner Jessica Berman lauded a 20-per-cent increase in season ticket memberships across the league and record tickets already sold for the…
Baseball
Media

The first round of the 2023 World Baseball Classic has set records in attendance, global viewership, and merchandise sales
Basketball
Sports Betting

One quarter of all American adults plan to wager an estimated $15.5bn (€14.4bn) on the 2023 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, known as March Madness, according to a survey by the American Gaming Association (AGA).
Football
Stadia

Major League Soccer has unveiled a 'multi-year' agreement with Ticketmaster to replace SeatGeek as the league's official ticketing partner as the league begins its 28th season
Baseball
Stadia

Ticketing firm SeatGeek has completed the set of major North American sports by agreeing a deal with Major League Baseball (MLB)
Football
Events

Major League Soccer's 28th season got off with a dud as the marquee matchup between rivals LA Galaxy and Los Angeles FC at the 90,000 capacity Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California was postponed due…
Cricket
Media

The 2022-23 season of Australian cricket's Big Bash League is being hailed as a return to form for a competition that had slumped in popularity in recent years