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Sports data company Genius Sports Group has strengthened its Latin American soccer presence with an expanded deal with Dimayor, the organising body of the top two divisions in Colombia
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Media

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has decided to pay its first fee instalment for the 2021-22 Ligue 2 season after missing the July 1 deadline in the wake of continued rancour with the French Professional…
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Media

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has extended its rights in France to the Premier League, while it will also broadcast the English club football competition in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
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Media

Telecom Italia (TIM) has defended its contentious agreement with sports subscription service and media company DAZN for the rights to Serie A, the top division of domestic club football, after Italy’s a…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Japanese video game company Konami said it has dropped French footballer Antoine Griezmann from his role as a brand ambassador following a racism row involving him and his French teammate Ousmane Dembele
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Multiple factors have hindered the development of a competitive market for European stadium naming rights over the last 18 months, but experts believe there is still scope for growth in the sector.
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Media

Pay-per-view streaming platform LIVENow has acquired media rights in Singapore for next season’s English Premier League in a sublicensing deal with telco Singtel.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The Swiss Football League has signed up pizza and pasta restaurant and delivery service Dieci as the title sponsor of its Challenge League
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Finance & Law

Venture capital firm Orkila Capital has acquired a 23.3-per-cent stake in back-to-back Belgian Pro League champions Club Brugge in a deal worth €50m ($59m) overall.
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Events

The Asian Football Confederation has confirmed that it has cancelled the Asean Zone matches of the AFC Cup 2021 after not being able to find a host due to the Covid-19 pandemic
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Media

Telenet has renewed its deal for exclusive English Premier League rights in Belgium, extending its agreement with the league for another three seasons
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Stadia

Football stadiums in Germany will welcome fans back for the start of the 2021-22 Bundesliga season, with new guidelines introduced to allow up to 25,000 spectators at matches
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Media

Media company Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has acquired exclusive rights to the English Premier League across the Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for the six seasons from 2022-23…
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Media

The Italian television audience for last night’s dramatic Uefa European Championship semi-final between Italy and Spain reached close to 19.5 million viewers across free-to-air and pay-television.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Spanish wind and solar developer Capital Energy has signed with Spanish LaLiga club Atlético de Madrid as the ‘Official Renewable Energy’ sponsor for the next three seasons, from 2021-22 to 2023-24.
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Media

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has yet to make its latest instalment payment for domestic broadcast rights to France’s Ligue 2 as it continues to weigh up its options following the French Professional F…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Romanian Liga 1 football club CFR 1907 Cluj has signed up global investment platform eToro as the club’s main sponsor in a multi-year deal.
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Events

The Asian Football Confederation has relocated two of the host venues for the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup in India in a bid to ease Covid-19-related disruption.