China

Football
Fan Engagement

SportBusiness speaks to Benjamin Wahl, head of China at Borussia Dortmund, about the BVB Virtual Asia Tour, which emerged out of the ashes of disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Baseball
Events

Chinese police, working with the US Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group, seized more than 120,000 counterfeit golf products in raids of online golf retailers in four cities
Governance

Simon Chadwick, director of Eurasian Sport at emlyon Business School France/China, outlines the pressures being felt in the sports industry as political tensions ratchet up between China, the West and others.
Events

Indian retailer Future Group has pulled out of its sponsorship of the Indian Premier League. The company is suffering financial problems linked to Covid-19
Football
Attendance

The Chinese Super League has allowed a limited number of spectators to attend a game for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began
Events

International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons said next year's Paralympics could not go ahead at the current risk level for Covid-19, noting that some para-athletes were particularly vulnerable…
Baseball
Events

A survey of 13,000 Japanese companies has found that more than half want next year's Tokyo Olympics to be either cancelled or postponed again - Kyodo News
Football
Attendance

The Chinese Super League is planning to admit up to 1,900 fans to the Shanghai SIPG v Beijing Guoan fixture this Saturday
Basketball
Events

New pan-regional club basketball league the East Asia Super League has secured the backing of world governing body Fiba in a 10-year deal
Cricket
Events

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has been cleared by the organisation's ethics committee of any breach of its code in relation to his meetings with Swiss attorney-general Michael Lauber
Baseball
Events

Fifa has created a new international match window in 2022, from January 24 to February 1, to ease fixture congestion caused by the Covid-19 pandemic - Japan Today
Badminton
Events

Japan is to extend its 5,000-person limit on attendees at sports events and concerts beyond the initial planned period that ran until the end of August
Athletics
Events

Chinese company LD Sports is to walk away from its £7.5m ($9.8m/€8.3m
Athletics
Events

Lars Graff has been appointed co-tournament director of the China Open tennis tournament
Cycling
Events

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has been forced to cancel this year’s WorldTour and Women’s WorldTour events in China due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, while new dates have been set for next yea…
Baseball
Events

The Korean KBO basketball league yesterday increased the number of fans allowed into games from 10 per cent of stadium capacity to 25 per cent - Naver
Football
Media

The English Premier League is assessing its options after its rights-holding broadcaster in China, streaming platform PPTV, is reported to have failed to make a rights-fee payment due earlier this year
Events

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has announced that the sixth edition of its Asian Beach Games will now be held from April 2-10, 2021 following an initial postponement caused by China’s stance on hosting i…