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UEFA will decide the venue for next year's European under-21 championships at a meeting on December 13.

SFX Sports Group has appointed former PSV Eindhoven soccer executive Chiel Dekker manager for the Benelux region.

Hockey’s inaugural Men’s Champions Challenge has been relocated to take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 8-16.

The English Premier League has denied that the European Commission was investigating last year's sale of television rights to England's top-flight soccer matches.

The Czech Republic’s leading commercial broadcaster TV Nova has clinched a two-year deal for the broadcast rights for the top two Czech soccer leagues.

Athletics’ world governing body the IAAF is implementing a range of measures in a boost to spark new interest in its Golden League competition.

Europe's soccer governing body UEFA remains opposed to European Commission plans to force changes to the way broadcast rights to the Champions League are sold, its chief executive has said.

Cycling’s 2004 Road World Championship is to be staged in Verona, Italy, the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) management committee has decided.

The following are pen pictures of the five candidates seeking to take over from Juan Antonio Samaranch when he retires after 21 years as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Monday.

Voting figures in the election for the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Monday:

Newly-elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge has renewed his call to defeated rival Dick Pound to stay on as both the Games' marketing chief and a key figure in the fight against doping.

Glasgow Rangers chairman David Murray has said that Rangers and Celtic could play soccer in the English Premier League and field an under-21 side in the Scottish Premiership.

UK-based Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS) has emerged as favourite to buy up Sponsorship Research International (SRi) – the research arm of the defunct ISL.

Brazilian Congressmen have handed public prosecutors a report which recommended that criminal charges be levelled against 32 soccer directors and businessmen, including the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation and a business partner of legendary player Pele.

Eight of Europe’s top soccer clubs are meeting with European soccer’s ruling body UEFA today to discuss the reform of the Champions League and the UEFA Cup.

Sponsorship Research International (SRi) – the research arm of the defunct ISL – has been broken in half and swallowed by two separate companies.