Belgium

Only a few hundred tickets are left unsold for this summer's Euro 2000 soccer championships, according to the tournament organisers. Sale details of the remaining tickets will be released in the next couple of weeks.

Sportal has confirmed it has become an official sponsor of the UEFA European Football Championships.

Belgian authorities acted out their Euro 2000 "disaster plan" earlier this week at Brussels' King Baudouin Stadium, the ground rebuilt and renamed after the 1985 Heysel tragedy.

Motor company Hyundai has appointed Octagon Marketing to handle its Euro 2000 sponsorship campaigns.

The Extreme Sports Channel has extended it reach to include the city of Louvain in Belgium.

Most players in this year's Euro 2000 tournament will have to pay 18 percent of their earnings in tax, tournament officials have announced.

The Bosman lawyer, Jean-Louis Dupont, has predicted a legal challenge to the territorial structure of both club and international football in the ?near future?.

The Dutch parliament has rejected a private member's bill to prohibit black market sales of soccer tickets, a decision that threatens to undermine security at this summer's Euro 2000 soccer championship.

The Dutch Parliament will debate whether to create a bill to make black market tickets sales illegal during Euro 2000.

Representatives from large clubs in the Netherlands, Scotland, Belgium and Portugal met in Amsterdam this week to discuss the problems of being big fish in small soccer ponds.

T&T Sports Marketing has sold the exclusive global rights outside of South America for the South American qualifying matches for the World Cup 2002 to Dream Sports International.

Extreme Sports Channel, the adventure and adrenaline sports service, is now available on digital cable in Germany.

Belgium's interior minister has said he was satisfied with security measures at the Charleroi stadium, to be used during the Euro 2000 soccer finals, despite police fears that it was unsafe.

Lokeren and Eendracht Aalst are planning a merger to help them survive the increasing demands of Belgian first division soccer, a spokesman for Aalst has said.

The 2000 NBA All-Star Game, taking place in the San Francisco Bay Area, February 11- 13, will be shown in 205 countries, with a potential audience of 750million households.

The International Automobile Federation has accused the European Union Commission of mismanaging its antitrust investigation and threatened to sue.