Eastern Europe

Biathlon
Events

Otepää in Estonia was today (Friday) awarded the hosting rights to biathlon’s 2027 IBU World Championships.
Multiple Sports
Media

Subscription streaming platform Viaplay has offered to compensate customers in Poland and pledged to upgrade its infrastructure following fresh issues concerning its coverage of sports events
Multiple Sports
Media

Czech pay-television operator Telly has expanded its sports offering by agreeing a multi-year carriage deal with media group AMC Networks International (AMCNI)
Football
Media

Following recently concluded rights sales in France and the UK, the Team Marketing agency has issued invitations to submit offers (ISOs) for broadcast rights in the Balkan countries to Uefa club competitions…
Football
Media

Česká Televize, the Czech public-service broadcaster, has sold on rights to matches from the 2022 Fifa World Cup to commercial network TV Nova because of cost-cutting measures related to a drop in the l…
Football
Licensing & Merchandising

Video game publisher EA Sports had added the Croatian Football Federation (HNS) to its roster of national team representatives for this year’s Fifa 23 game.
Football
Media

Oversport, the new OTT streaming platform in Albania, has secured a clean sweep of broadcast rights to domestic club football in the country
Football
Media

The Ukrainian Premier League has signed a $16.2m (€15.9m), three-year centralised domestic rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sports.
Biathlon
Governance

The national federations of Russia (RBU) and Belarus (BiFB) are set to see their exclusion from the International Biathlon Union (IBU) extended for the foreseeable future, amid the ongoing war in Ukraine
Football
Media

Viaplay Group, the subscription streaming operator, has announced a multi-year endorsement and content agreement with Manchester City and Norway national team striker Erling Haaland
Football
Media

Football-focused streaming and media platform OneFootball has acquired Serie A broadcast rights in the UK and Ireland ahead of the 2022-23 season, supplementing the league’s existing agreement with pay-television b…
Multiple Sports
Sports Betting

Sports betting and gaming group Entain has today (Thursday) launched a new venture to drive expansion in Central and Eastern Europe through the €600m ($619.7m) acquisition of Croatian operator SuperSport.
Multi-sport
Media

UA:PBC, the national broadcaster in Ukraine, has been allocated rights free of charge to the 2022 European Championships in Munich
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk will feature the logo of the United24 charity fundraising platform logo on the team’s shirtfronts for its 2022-23 Champions League group stage games.
Football
Media

Canal+ Sport, a new sports channel in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, has struck carriage agreements with Slovak Telekom, Digi Slovakia and T-Mobile Czech Republic
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Polish Football Association (PZPN) has called time on its long-standing association with the Sportfive agency after awarding a five-year sponsorship sales contract to Poland’s Publicon Sport agency.
Multiple Sports
Media

Subscription streaming operator Viaplay will raise its subscription fee in Poland from PLN34 ($7.36/€7.22) to PLN55 per month, starting from March next year.
Multi-sport
Media

A Paris 2024 sublicensing deal struck between TVP and Warner Bros