Football
Nike inks Liverpool deal for £30m per year basic fee as club eyes royalties uplift
Premier League club Liverpool has signed Nike as its official kit supplier from the 2020-21 season for a basic fee of £30m (€35.3m/$39.5m) per season, SportBusiness understands.
Florida Cup takes to Facebook Watch in Latin America
Social media platform Facebook has agreed a deal to stream the Florida Cup, the club football exhibition tournament, across Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America
Ypióca title sponsors Brazil’s Campeonato Cearense
Diageo-owned beverage manufacturer Ypióca has agreed a deal to become title sponsor of the Campeonato Cearense state football competition in Brazil.
Amanda Duffy stepping down as NWSL president
Amanda Duffy is stepping down as National Women's Soccer League president after a year in the role to take up an executive position with NWSL team Orlando Pride, according to multiple reports
NYCFC names Goodman as inaugural COO and CCO
Major League Soccer team New York City FC is stepping up its commercial efforts by naming former National Basketball Association executive Matt Goodman as its inaugural chief operating officer and chief…
International Teqball Federation promotes Marius Vizer Jr. to general secretary
The International Teqball Federation (FITEQ) Executive Board has appointed Marius Vizer Jr. as the organisation’s new general secretary.
Fiorentina claims blockchain first with Genuino venture
Italian Serie A football club Fiorentina has claimed a first through a partnership with Genuino that will utilise blockchain technology to certify the shirts used in matches by the team’s players.
Seifert: Bundesliga to increase live free-to-air matches from 2021-22
Christian Seifert, chief executive of the Deutsche Fußball Liga, has said that there will be more of Germany’s Bundesliga matches shown live on free-to-air television from the 2021-22 season, after it…
SuperSport declines bid for Ghana football rights
SuperSport, the pan-African pay-television broadcaster, was absent from the bidding during the Ghana Football Association's invitation to tender for the rights to a host of its properties, the national…
Discovery picks up Spanish Supercopa rights in Norway
Discovery, the international broadcaster that owns Eurosport, has acquired rights in the Norway to the Spanish Supercopa club football competition
Heilan Home snaps up Wu Lei as ambassador
Chinese fast fashion brand Heilan Home announced on its Weibo page yesterday that it had signed a deal with Espanyol football player Wu Lei
Unsuccessful initial tender raises questions over K-League’s domestic media strategy
Pooling media rights to Korea’s K-League with national-team matches was supposed to create a property more valuable than the sum of its parts. John Duerden investigates why it isn’t working yet.
USMNT calls off Qatar training camp amid rising Middle East tensions
The United States Soccer Federation has called off a training camp for the US men's national team in Qatar this month "due to the developing situation in the region
Former Arsenal shareholder Usmanov considers Everton investment
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov has revealed his interest in investing in English Premier League football club Everton
Cyfrowy Polsat handed hefty €8m fine in ARD-ZDF Euro 2016 probe
Cyfrowy Polsat, the Polish pay-television operator, has been issued with a fine of PLN34.9m (€8.1m/$9.1
Argentina’s Superliga gauges interest in international rights as tender issued
Argentina’s Superliga, the top-tier of domestic football in Argentina, has kicked off an invitation to tender to sell the league’s broadcast rights internationally from the 2020-21 season onwards.
TV2 picks up rights to Haaland’s Dortmund debut
Norwegian commercial broadcaster TV2 has acquired exclusive rights to a trio of friendly matches featuring Borussia Dortmund as Norway’s star striker Erling Braut Haaland prepares to make his debut for t…
Puma ‘to replace Umbro’ as PSV kit supplier
Dutch football club PSV Eindhoven is set to sign a lucrative kit supply contract with German sportswear manufacturer Puma