Kevin McCullagh

SportBusiness Asia's Kevin McCullagh looks at Football Marketing Asia's mandate to commercialise the Asian Football Confederation's rights, and its aims for long-term success.

There was a distinctively Australian headline in the Sydney Morning Herald’s sports business coverage recently: “Peter V’Landys is becoming as pleasant as a nasal swab for AFL”. The
Football
Media

Japanese pay-television broadcaster Sky PerfecTV has acquired rights for the German Bundesliga covering the five seasons from 2020-21 to 2024-25, SportBusiness can reveal
Cricket
Media

India-based agency ITW has apologised to the Pakistan Cricket Board for a mix-up that saw Pakistan Super League cricket matches streamed on UK betting website Bet365 against the board's wishes
Basketball
Business

Kevin McCullagh looks at the growth of the B. League, Japan's domestic basketball league, and considers whether it might be the country's biggest sports expansion of the Reiwa era.
Basketball
Other

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the league will lose "several hundred million dollars" due to the controversy in China over Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey's tweet about Hong Kong in October
Football
Governance

The Asian Football Confederation and sports data firm Sportradar have claimed their partnership since 2013 has resulted in a 21-per-cent drop in football match fixing in Asia
Cricket
Governance

Indian media outlets are reporting that Rahul Johri, the chief executive of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, has resigned. Neither Johri nor the BCCI have officially confirmed the news
Football
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
Golf
Finance & Law

Korean virtual and augmented reality experiences company Kakao VX has raised KRW20bn ($17m) to expand its golf business