Italian Serie A
AS Roma enhances data protection through Acronis deal
Italian Serie A club Roma has signed up cyber security and data protection platform Acronis to its sponsorship portfolio
Serie A sets June 20 return date
Serie A, the top tier of Italian club football, is set to return on June 20 after the country’s Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora gave the league the green light to resume.
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Australian commentators hailed rule changes in the National Rugby League that led to an exciting game as the 2020 season got back underway yesterday with the Parramatta Eels beating the Brisbane Broncos…
Italian Sports Minister wants free access to Serie A live goals show
Italy’s Sports Minister, Vincenzo Spadafora, has returned to the topic of free access to Serie A broadcast coverage by proposing that a similar system be employed for the return of domestic club football a…
Falling transfer fees to be a marker for football’s post-Covid-19 austerity era
Omar Chaudhuri, chief intelligence officer at 21st Club, reflects on how the transfer market will change and impact clubs of all sizes during and after the Covid-19 crisis
Risk considerations for sport’s return from lockdown
David Griffiths, senior member of the sports and entertainment team at Miller Insurance, on the challenges presented by playing sport behind closed doors.
Fiorentina’s Joe Barone – A salary cap won’t work without Fifa mandate
In the third and final part of our interview, Fiorentina general director Joe Barone says that while a salary cap might work in US sport it would create competitive imbalance in European football unless …
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UK government culture secretary Oliver Dowden has said he hopes the Premier League can resume by mid-June. The teams have agreed to start non-contact training in small groups today
CVC’s €2.2bn Serie A proposal includes stadium investment
The €2.2bn ($2.4
Fiorentina’s Joe Barone on Covid-19: Uncertainty and a lack of protocol is tough to deal with
In part one of a three-part interview, Joe Barone, director general of Italian Serie A club Fiorentina, discusses the challenges of running a club in lockdown, the accelerated focus on going digital, the…
Serie A earmarks June 13 return, maintains TV rights payment stance
Clubs from Italy’s top-tier Serie A today voted to resume the competition on June 13, pending government approval, as the league continued to adopt a tough stance on payments by rights-holding broadcasters.
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Hyundai is ending its sponsorship of the Australian A-League after this season, according to the Sydney Morning Herald
CVC ‘in talks’ over ten-year Serie A media-rights investment
Private equity company CVC Capital Partners is lining up Serie A for its next sporting investment, it has been claimed, through a deal involving the sale of domestic broadcast rights to the top division…
Serie A set on finishing season as doubts persist over rights contracts
Clubs from Italy’s top-tier Serie A today reiterated their desire to finish the 2019-20 season at a league assembly meeting, but doubts remain over the fulfilment of the league’s domestic and international bro…
Serie A committed to ending season as ‘thorny’ free-to-air issue resurfaces
Lega Serie A has maintained it is committed to completing the 2019-20 season amid Covid-19, as Italy’s Sports Minister, Vincenzo Spadafora, said he would return to the “very thorny issue” of free-to-air acces…
Suning’s real estate division signs regional deal with Inter
Serie A club Inter Milan has signed a sponsorship deal with Suning Real Estate, a division of the club’s Chinese ownership group Suning.
Kappa ‘to replace’ Le Coq Sportif at Fiorentina
Italian Serie A club Fiorentina is set to play in kit supplied by Italian sports brand Kappa next season after five years with the French brand Le Coq Sportif
Lega Serie A wage cuts proposal met with scorn from players’ union
Lega Serie A, organising body of the top division of Italian club football, has voted unanimously to recommend that clubs impose wage cuts of between two and four months’ pay on playing and coaching s…