Events

Beyond Sport, the organisation that promotes, develops and funds the use of sport to drive positive social change across the world, has signed United Airlines as its Global Airline Partner.

With the start of the World Cup finally here, we look forward to our first ever event in Africa.

Australia has withdrawn from the race to stage the football World Cup in 2018, and will focus instead on bidding to host the 2022 edition.

GT racing series the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup will expand from three to seven events in 2011, its second season, with races in Europe, Asia and the United States.

John Steele, the current chief executive of UK Sport, will take over as chief executive of England’s Rugby Football Union next month.

Warner Bros Consumer Products will produce mascot and art, and help select licensees and official retailers for Uefa’s national team competitions under a new deal between the two organisations.

The Russian bid to host the 2018 or 2022 football World Cup’s is sponsoring the networking café area at the Soccerex Asian Forum and the Soccerex Global Convention.

The Word Matchplay Championship will return to the professional golf calendar next year, taking place in Spain, after being cancelled this year due to a congested schedule.

The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) will host its general assembly at Leaders in Football in 2010, the second time the meeting has been staged at the football industry conference.

FIFA and the organising committee for this year's World Cup have said they were not involved in the warm-up match between Nigeria and North Korea in which a crowd stampede left several people injured.

London-based sports PR company Pitch has been appointed by the England 2018 World Cup bid to manage its public relations in the UK in the run-up to the December vote by FIFA on the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.

Ukraine’s progress over the past two months has satisfied UEFA that the country is capable of staging Euro 2012 alongside Poland. In April, UEFA president Michel Platini said Ukraine had two months to show improvement in its preparations for its four venues or it would be stripped of its hosting rights.

The Ladies European Tour yesterday started the official bidding process for the 2015 Solheim Cup, the biennial transatlantic women’s match play golf tournament.

The Australian MotoGP will be held in the southern state of Victoria until at least 2016, with the option to extend until 2026.

The Olympic Council of Asia has reacted angrily to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)’s decision not to send a team to this year's Asian Games in China. Olympic Council of Asia secretary general Randhir Singh said it is a "setback" for the future of cricket in the region.

Sunil Gulati, United States Soccer Federation (USSF) president and chairman of the USA bid to host either the 2018 or 2022, has been announced as a speaker at football business event Leaders in Football, taking place for the third time on October 6 and 7 this year at Chelsea FC.