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Sponsorship & Marketing

The English Football Association has extended its long-term agreement with German tyre company Continental. The deal, which focuses on women’s football, will now run until September 2021.
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LaLiga president Javier Tebas has criticised the Spanish Football Federation’s (RFEF) decision to stage its Supercopa club competition in Saudi Arabia, citing the country’s alleged support for pirate bro…
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Fan Engagement

Major League Soccer will be without some significant star power in 2020 after Zlatan Ibrahimovic and the Los Angeles Galaxy "agreed to mutually part ways". "I came, I saw, I conquered
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Events

Inter Miami's inaugural Major League Soccer home game will be against the Los Angeles Galaxy on March 14, 2020, giving David Beckham a reunion against his former team
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Media

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has issued a bid deadline of November 28 for international broadcast rights to the Spanish Supercopa, the next three editions of which will be held in Saudi Arabia
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Events

Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have all confirmed that they will compete in this month’s Arabian Gulf Cup football tournament in Qatar, despite their ongoing economic and political b…
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Industry Moves

FC Diez Media, the joint venture established by the IMG agency and digital media company DAZN Group to sell rights to the Conmebol club competitions, has named Felipe Soalheiro as sponsorship sales director
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The Swiss Football Association (SFV) has further extended its main partner agreement with multi-national investment bank and financial services company Credit Suisse
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Stadia

Major League Soccer expansion club Austin FC has unveiled plans for a $45m training center in Northeast Austin, which will house the first team and academy teams. The 30,000-square foot St
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Business

The Bundesliga’s head of APAC Kevin Sim is deep in talks with potential media-rights partners for the cycle from 2020-21. Kevin McCullagh talks to him about his expectations for the market.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Dutch beer brand Heineken has extended its Uefa Champions League sponsorship, and, in a separate deal, signed as the Official Beer Partner of Euro 2020, ending Uefa’s long search for a beer brand to s…
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Governance

After local media reported an increase of the Chinese Super League's quota for foreign  players last week, the Chinese Football Association released a statement on Tuesday saying those reports are "completely …
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Events

Real Madrid has written to Spain's soccer federation (RFEF) to express the club's opposition to LaLiga's plans to play Villarreal's upcoming home match with Atletico Madrid in Miami
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Events

The Asian Football Confederation has approved a proposal by the All-Nepal Football Association for their 2022 World Cup qualifier fixture against Kuwait to be held in Bhutan on November 19
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Media

CBS's acting chief executive Joe Ianniello has confirmed in a quarterly earnings call that the US broadcaster has secured the English-language rights to the Uefa Champions League from the 2021-22 season …
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Events

The French Football Federation (FFF) will put forward Saint-Etienne as its bidder for the final of the 2022-23 Uefa Europa League, according to the city’s Mayor, Gaël Perdriaux.
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Media

Mediapro, the Spanish production group and agency, has said that it offered €100.5m ($110.6
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Governance

World football’s governing body Fifa has today (Tuesday) handed life bans to three more senior former South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) executives, including Manuel Burga, who in December 2…