Rugby Union

Rugby Union
Finance & Law

Bill Sweeney, chief executive of England’s Rugby Football Union (RFU), has forecast that the body will lose around £145m (€161m/$188m) in revenues in the short term as a “mid-case” scenario after the orga…
Badminton
Events

Online training sessions for volunteers at next summer's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have resumed following a roughly eight-month suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic - Japan Today
Rugby Union
Events

Two Circles, the data-driven sports marketing agency owned by Bruin Sports Capital, has been named as the official ticketing marketing agency in the UK and Ireland for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, which will…
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

Swiss health start-up Be.care has unveiled a two-year performance and health sponsorship with the French rugby club Racing 92. As the central part of the deal, Racing 92 will use Be
Athletics
Events

The Australian Institute of Sport is to provide funding of more than A$115m ($82.1m/€69.7
Rugby Union
Media

US-based sports streaming service FloSports has acquired rights for the upcoming Autumn Nations Cup, a new international rugby union tournament set up following the postponement of autumn Test tours
Rugby Union
Industry Moves

World Rugby has recruited Chris Synnott from WRC Promoter, the commercial arm of the FIA World Rally Championship, as its head of broadcast and media rights sales as it builds up its in-house capabilities
Rugby Union
Finance & Law

The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) has posted a loss of €35.7m ($42.2m) for the 2019-20 season as the governing body continues to deal with the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

Welsh rugby club Scarlets has signed a three-year ‘official travel partner’ deal with Clarity Sports, and its consumer travel provider, Sportsbreaks.com.
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

Premiership Rugby, the organisers of rugby union's flagship domestic league in England, has extended its ball supply contract with sports equipment specialist Gilbert
Rugby Union
Media

Australian pay-television broadcaster Foxtel has offered to place a handful of Super Rugby matches outside of its Kayo Sports sports streaming platform paywall as part of its pitch to win  Rugby Australia's …
Rugby Union
Media

The UK-based RDA agency has been appointed as the exclusive media-rights distributor for the upcoming British & Irish Lions tour of South Africa in a range of territories
Rugby Union
Media

Subscription broadcaster Premier Sports is launching an OTT streaming service in 22 Asian territories after acquiring rights to rugby union’s Six Nations Championship and the new Autumn Nations Cup, a…
Rugby Union
Events

The British & Irish Lions rugby union team will play Japan at Edinburgh’s BT Murrayfield Stadium next June in what will mark only its third Test match on ‘home’ soil. T
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

Leicester Tigers have extended and expanded their association with wealth management company Mattioli Woods, with the brand taking the stadium naming rights
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Rugby Football Union has extended its principal shirt sponsorship agreement with telco O2 for another five years in a deal that will take the association between the two organisations to 30 years
Rugby Union
Media

Commercial station TalkSport is set to retain radio rights in the UK for the British and Irish Lions’ tour of South Africa next year.
Rugby Union
Media

Canal Plus will show the French Top 14 rugby union match between Toulon and Brive on its C8 free-to-air channel