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Events

Nascar venue Daytona International Speedway has announced that it will stage a two-day soccer and music festival during July 4 weekend in 2021
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Media

International media rights agencies Mediapro and Pitch International will join forces to sell the exclusive broadcast rights in the United States to South American nation’s qualifying matches for the F…
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Esports

The Canadian Premier League has partnered with computer games publisher Electronic Arts to create the inaugural eCanadian Premier League (eCPL) esports tournament.
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Media

Spanish media rights and production agency Mediapro has agreed to a further €1.1m ($1.2m) contribution to women’s football in Spain in order to ensure that salary contributions are met.
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Governance

For many years now, the issue of introducing promotion and relegation into the structure of US soccer has been one of contention. Bob Williams explores what is happening at the moment.
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Media

LaLiga North America has teamed up with FanWide, a website that shows sports fans the closest match-watch party or fan community event at sports bars across the US
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Media

Pay-television broadcaster i-Cable has acquired the exclusive media rights in Hong Kong for Japanese football's J.League. i-Cable has purchased the rights in a three-season deal covering 2020 to 2022
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Technology

The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has signalled his intention to step up the use of video assistant referees in the top-tier Serie A and revealed that a challenge system could be implemented in the…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Spanish LaLiga football club Barcelona has teamed up with blockchain-based fan engagement company Chiliz, through which fans can interact via the Socios.com voting and rewards platform
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Finance & Law

Singapore technology firm Sea, formerly known as Garena, has bought Singapore Premier League club Home United
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Business

V. League 1 football club Sài Gòn FC and J.League club Tokyo FC have signed an agreement to establish a training academy in Vietnam.
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Stadia

Following a public and acrimonious months-long stand-off, Nashville Mayor John Cooper and Nashville SC majority owner John Ingram announced that they have reached agreement to allow construction to begin…
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Media

The Lagardère Sports agency is to distribute the international broadcast rights to the USL Championship and USL League One, the second- and third-tier US soccer leagues, respectively.
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Events

The Vietnam Football Federation is partnering with state-owned broadcaster Voice of Vietnam and local bank HDBank to run national futsal tournaments. The partnerships cover three years, 2020 to 2022
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Other

The Japanese Football Association is opening an office in Europe to support its players in the continent
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Governance

Fifa’s proposals to cap agent commissions has set it on a collision course with some of the most powerful agents in world football. In this explainer, Ben Cronin outlines the reasoning behind the reforms and the legal arguments for and against them.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Italian football giants Juventus have expanded and extended their naming rights and sponsorship contract with global financial services company Allianz. The new deal is worth €103.1
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Media

The TV Media Sport agency has acquired a package of exclusive free-to-air rights to Euro 2020 across sub-Saharan Africa, marking the third consecutive time it has acquired the rights to the European Championships