Fifa World Cup

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World governing soccer body Fifa has announced it will visit Edmonton, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Los Angeles, and Toronto in its third and final leg of 2026 World Cup candidate host cities from November…
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AMC Networks International has secured rights to the Slovak national football team’s matches until 2028, along with third-party Uefa national team rights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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English Premier League clubs have expressed their unanimous opposition to a biennial Fifa World Cup, as the league confirmed its schedule for the 2022-23 season which will be impacted by Qatar’s staging o…
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Qatari telecoms firm Ooredoo has signed as a regional supporter of the Qatar-hosted World Cup in 2022 and forthcoming Arab Cup
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Public-service broadcaster YLE and commercial and pay-television broadcaster MTV3 have agreed to share rights in Finland to next year's Fifa World Cup, to be held in Qatar
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The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, organising body for Qatar’s staging of the 2022 Fifa World Cup, has appointed French hospitality giant Accor to aid its accommodation needs for the staging o…
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The Qatar Football Association has signed up food delivery company Talabat as a sponsor
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Sustainable agriculture company UPL Ltd has become a regional supporter of the 2022 Fifa World Cup in the South American market
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An invitation to tender has been issued for in-flight and in-ship rights to the 2022 Fifa World Cup and 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup.
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Chinese dairy products manufacturer Mengniu has signed as an official sponsor of the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar
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Fifa will stage a ‘global summit’ to discuss the proposals to switch the World Cup and Women’s World Cup to a biennial hosting model, as president Gianni Infantino conceded ground on potentially putti…
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An independent study commissioned by Uefa, football’s European governing body, has found that it could lose up to €3bn ($3.5bn
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Fifa is reported to have engaged the LiveMode agency to advise on the sale of a package of streaming rights in Brazil to the 2022 World Cup
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The International Olympic Committee has waded into the debate surrounding Fifa’s proposal to transform the men’s and women’s World Cups into biennial events by stating that it supports the calls for a…
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World governing soccer body Fifa has announced it will make a second visit to 2026 World Cup candidate host cities from October 21-November 1
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France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has become the latest body to speak out against Fifa’s plans to transform the World Cup into a biennial tournament, stating the event must be “preserved and n…
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Uefa has stepped up its opposition to Fifa’s plans to turn the men’s and women’s World Cups into biennial tournaments by joining forces with a host of Europe’s leading women’s leagues to declare that such…
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Noël Le Graët, the president of the French Football Federation, has said that he is “not opposed” to a proposal from global governing body Fifa to turn its showpiece World Cup tournament into a biennial event…