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The German Bundesliga was the first of the 'Big Five' European football leagues to secure a media-rights deal with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV for the 2021-22 season
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Finance & Law

Portuguese Primeira Liga football club FC Porto is weighing up the sale of a minority stake after receiving interest from outside investors, it is reported
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Finance & Law

American entrepreneur Chris Kirchner has announced his intention to buy the financially-stricken English Championship club Derby County.
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Media

Imran Yusuf travels to Barcelona to visit the production studios of LaLigaTV, the Spanish top-flight’s 24/7 television channel, to examine how the league is focusing on innovation to compete in a squeezed media rights market.
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Media

Online retail giant Amazon has agreed a deal with TF1 that sees short highlights of French football’s Ligue 1 return to the commercial broadcaster’s long-running Téléfoot programme. T
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Scottish Premiership side Rangers has signed up a new lower back-of-shirt sponsor in a two-year agreement with Sportemon Go (SGO), the non-fungible token (NFT) augmented reality sports trading platform
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Spanish fitness equipment and swimming pool provider Argysan has reached a four-season sponsorship agreement, from 2021-22 to 2024-25, with the LaLiga club Real Sociedad
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Finance & Law

FC Barcelona’s delegate members have given the embattled Spanish LaLiga football club the green light to seek to sell off a stake in its Barça Studios arm and set up a financing operation worth up to €1…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Italian football club Inter Milan has signed up wine brand Santa Margherita to its sponsorship portfolio, building on a previous association between the two organisations
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Chinese dairy products manufacturer Mengniu has signed as an official sponsor of the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar
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Governance

The European Leagues, a collective of 37 professional football leagues and associations of clubs from 30 countries across the continent, is seeking changes to the Champions League format, which were ratified…
Football
Finance & Law

US investment firm Silver Lake is close to acquiring a 30-per-cent stake in the commercial rights business of Australia's domestic football leagues, according to Australian newspapers the Sun-Herald and…
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Fan Engagement

Lega Serie A, organising body of the top division of Italian club football, has stepped up its commitment to fans in Indonesia by launching an official account on Helo, a platform owned by Chinese internet…
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Spanish LaLiga club Real Betis has signed up energy drink brand Vrauu to its sponsorship portfolio
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Media

European Leagues, the body of European football leagues, has awarded the centralised international broadcast rights to nine different leagues to football-based media platform OneFootball and streaming…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund has become the latest high-profile football club to appoint digital inventory management company Horizm to maximise income from their digital assets
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Media

The Hellenic Football Federation has, for the second time in three months, invited bids for broadcast rights to this season’s Greek Cup, following an unsuccessful attempt in the summer.
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Finance & Law

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) is seeking an investment of €1.5bn ($1.75b