Events

Football business event Soccerex has announced the Sports Business Group at Deloitte will launch the 13th edition of its annual Money League at the Soccerex European Forum from March 2-3 in Manchester.

As the Togo team returns home from the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, 2010 FIFA World Cup organising committee CEO Danny Jordaan and FIFA president Sepp Blatter have played down security fears for this year’s World Cup in South Africa.

Powerboat P1 Management will integrate the Honda Formula 4-Stroke Association (F4SA), the largest off-shore powerboat championship in the world, into the Powerboat P1 SuperStock Championship from 2010.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced a sponsorship deal with the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup bid for its Congress in Angola on January 29.

The South African Football Association has hired lawyer Leslie Sedibe as CEO, after Raymond Hack left the post on Wednesday.

The OneAsia golf tour has added the South Korean tournament the GS Caltex Maekyung Open to its 2010 schedule, taking the tour to 11 events this year.

This Friday’s derby clash between rival Bavarian ice hockey clubs SC Riessersee and EHC Munich will see the two teams wear special jerseys in support of Munich’s bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.

FIFA has said it will not intervene in a dispute between players and club owners in Major League Soccer that is heading for a work stoppage next month.

Football business event the Soccerex European Forum has attracted the UK’s top football clubs.

Christian Nerlinger, the director of sport at Germany’s biggest football club, Bayern Munich, has said the club’s cost-cutting drive on wages has not finished.

Scott Blackmun, a lawyer and former chief operating officer of the Anschutz Entertainment Group, has been appointed as chief executive officer of the US Olympic Committee.

International Sportsworld Communicators Ltd (ISC), the promoter of the World Rally Championship, has announced it will re-brand as North One Sport Ltd.

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has refused permission for a four-nation tournament that Hockey India had planned for this month.

The chief executive of the England Commonwealth Games team has denied a report in a UK newspaper at the weekend that the team would not be sent to Delhi 2010 on security grounds.

News service Bloomberg has put a figure of $220m on the potential cost for the PGA Tour and Nike of the Tiger Woods scandal.

The team bidding to bring the 2018 FIFA World Cup to England has included the Olympic Stadium being built for London 2012 as one of its proposed match venues.

The two-year legal battle over the terms of the 33rd America's Cup sailing competition could be over, after defending champions Alinghi have accepted the latest court ruling on the venue for the event.

The chief executive of Australian football's A-League has denied that poor crowds at matches in the league could hurt Australia's chances of hosting the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.