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Business

FC Barcelona has lost its only academy in Saudi Arabia after regional sponsor Fitness Time failed to renew a three-year sponsorship deal with the club
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Events

The English Football Association (FA) has said it will commence work on formulating a potential bid for the 2030 Fifa World Cup and has dismissed claims it could target Qatar’s under-fire 2022 tournament.
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Governance

Colombian Football Federation (FCF) president Ramon Jesurun, a leading figure in South American football, is being investigated for alleged embezzlement and resale of tickets for Fifa World Cup qualifying…
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Stadia

Spanish LaLiga football club Atlético Madrid has insisted that it owns the land on which its new Wanda Metropolitano stadium is built after the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) annulled an agreement …
Football
Governance

The French Football League (LFP) has today (Tuesday) unveiled a new brand identity for Ligue 1 to capitalise on what it claims is a turning point in its history
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Governance

World football’s governing body Fifa has reduced the suspension imposed on former Caribbean Football Union (CFU) president Gordon Derrick after its Appeal Committee ruled that fewer article breaches h…
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Governance

US investment fund GACP has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire French Ligue 1 football club Girondins de Bordeaux.
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Events

Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy has rubbished fresh allegations reported in the Sunday Times newspaper that the team that led the country’s successful bid for the 2022 Fifa World Cup…
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Governance

Former Fifa secretary general Jérôme Valcke has today (Friday) seen his appeal against a 10-year ban imposed by world football’s governing body dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
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Finance & Law

Chievo Verona will retain its place in Serie A, the top division of Italian club football, after the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) opted not to proceed with a case concerning alleged financial irregularities
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Licensing & Merchandising

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has appointed the IMG agency as the exclusive master licensee for Euro 2020 and other major national team tournaments through to the end of 2022.
Football
Licensing & Merchandising

Spanish agency Mediapro has deepened its presence in the in the video assistant referees (VAR) market by agreeing a partnership with the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol)
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Business

The Premier League has expanded at such a precipitous rate under Richard Scudamore’s leadership that most experts seem to agree that it will need to appoint more than one person to replace the outgoing c…
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Business

The almost unchecked expansion in overseas media-rights revenues for the Premier League tells its own story about the extraordinary success of the competition as an international export
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Business

From a sponsorship perspective, Peter Daire, founding partner at  sports rights and marketing agency Sport Collective, thinks Scudamore ought to be remembered more for the partnerships the Premier League r…
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Business

Scudamore’s former media advisor Phil Lines argues that his old boss could be directly credited with creating a formal tender process for the selling of the league’s rights and for professionalising the…
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Business

Time was the greatest enemy in Fifa’s attempt to sell the full offering of sponsorship rights for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Philippe Le Floc’h, Fifa’s chief commercial officer has told Sports Sponso…
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Business

Chief executive surrounded himself with the best advisors to take strategic decisions Diplomatic skills essential in persuading league owners of the greater power of the collective