Italian Serie A
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…
AC Milan signs up ROinvesting to bolster sponsorship portfolio
Italian Serie A club AC Milan has added Cyprus-based trading platform ROinvesting as a new sponsor
Coronavirus update: Wimbledon to be cancelled, F1 could race into January 2021, and more
Wimbledon will be cancelled for the first time since World War II, according to German Tennis Federation vice-president Dirk Hordorff. The event is scheduled to begin June 29
Serie A 2018-19 revenues hit €2.7bn after media-rights increases
Italian football’s Serie A registered a 13.5-per-cent increase in revenues during the 2018-19 season, in part thanks to improved media-rights revenues.
Italian, Spanish officials spell out hope for European football resumption
Officials in Italy and Spain have expressed hope that Serie A and LaLiga may be able to restart in May, as Lars-Christer Olsson, chairman of the European Leagues group, stated forward planning is hopeful…
Coronavirus latest: NBA season postponed, Serie A player infected, CBA to restart league, and more
The National Basketball Association is suspending its 2019-20 season indefinitely following games on March 11, after a player on the Utah Jazz tested positive for the coronavirus
Coronavirus latest: Tokyo 2020 postponement floated, Serie A playoff mooted, and more
Haruyuki Takahashi, a member of Tokyo 2020's organising committee's executive board, told the Wall Street Journal that the event would most likely be postponed by one or two years if it could not take…
Sky and Lega Serie A hit back at free-to-air criticism
Lega Serie A, the operating body of the top division of Italian club football, and domestic rights-holder, pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia, have hit out at comments by Italian sports minister Vincenzo…
Milan clubs to implement 4K LED ad boards at San Siro
Italian Serie A clubs AC Milan and Inter Milan have signed a joint alliance with digital advertising companies Technovision Ledwall and Aim Sport to enhance the clubs' LED signage at the San Siro stadium
Italian court overturns Sky’s three-year exclusive digital rights ban
Sky Italia has won its appeal against the country’s antitrust authority’s decision to bar the pay-television broadcaster for three years from acquiring exclusive content rights over internet platforms.
Italy-England Six Nations match victim of coronavirus, government orders fan shutout
The Six Nations rugby union clash between Italy and England in Rome on March 14 has been postponed until later this year as the country continues to attempt to stem the tide of its coronavirus outbreak
Sky Italia mulls free-to-air broadcast of Juventus-Inter in wake of coronavirus
Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has said that it will consult with Lega Serie A over whether to broadcast this Sunday’s fixture between Juventus and Inter Milan on its free-to-air channel T…
Coronavirus latest – Serie A games off, Asean Para Games postponed, Tokyo dismisses London suggestion, and more
Four Italian Serie A football matches were postponed at the weekend after an outbreak of coronavirus cases in the north of the country
Bologna extends long-running Macron deal
Italian sportswear company Macron has extended its kit supplier deal with domestic Serie A football club Bologna through a new contract that will take the association into a third decade
Juventus buoyed by €103m Allianz extension to 2030
Italian football giants Juventus have expanded and extended their naming rights and sponsorship contract with global financial services company Allianz.
The new deal is worth €103.1
Serie A media-rights guidelines receive antitrust approval
Italy’s antitrust authority (AGCM) has cleared the way for Italian football’s Lega Serie A to begin its sale of domestic broadcast rights from 2021-22 to 2023-24 after approving the guidelines set out…
Napoli extends with Kappa, launches TikTok channel
Italian Serie A football club Napoli has agreed a two-season extension to its kit deal with Kappa, as the Neopolitan team seeks to strike a longer contract with the Italian sportswear brand