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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.
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Finance & Law

German Bundesliga football team Bayern Munich has said it expects the Covid-19 pandemic to cost the club €150m ($177.6m) in lost matchday revenue.
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Events

The city of Montreal has officially withdrawn from the selection process to become a host city of the 2026 Fifa World Cup, which is being co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico
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Media

Action from the Uefa European Championship quarter-finals attracted strong audiences on public-service broadcasters in the competing nations of Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland
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Media

Helbiz, the US-based micro-mobility company, has presented its innovative business model for the domestic streaming rights to Serie B, the second tier of Italian club football
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Sponsorship & Marketing

French Ligue 1 football club RC Lens has agreed a sponsorship deal with online poker and sports betting company Winamax
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Newly-promoted Spanish LaLiga club RCD Mallorca has agreed a five-year kit sponsorship with Nike, from 2021-22 to 2025-26
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Events

AFC Champions League knockout games will be played over a single leg from the quarter-finals onwards, as opposed to the normal home and away format, as Covid-19 continues to disrupt the competition