Eastern Europe

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has acquired a wide-ranging suite of Uefa national team competition rights in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania across the 2022-28 cycle

The European Olympic Committees has added beach soccer and kickboxing to the programme of events for its 2023 European Games in Poland

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has acquired exclusive media rights to Italy’s top-tier women’s football league, the Serie A Femminile, as it furthers bolsters its women’s sport portfolio. M

The International Tennis Federation has designated Prague as the new host city for this year’s Billie Jean King Cup Finals.

The Liga ACB, Spain’s top-flight basketball competition, has renewed its broadcast rights deal in Poland with Sportklub for two more seasons, from 2021-22 to 2022-23.

Fina, the global governing body for aquatic sports, has confirmed the final calendar for the 2021 Swimming World Cup, with four legs to be held throughout October in Europe and the Middle East

The Saran Media Group has extended a deal for rights to football’s English Premier League in 11 Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries for a further three years.

Helbiz Media, Lega Serie B’s global media rights distributor, has announced deals for the second tier of Italian club football with the Athletic Sports Group agency in Romania and pay-television broadcaster T…

Czech pay-television platform Telly has withdrawn all but one Digi Sport channel from its offering, with the football content available in its sports package to instead focus on the Premier Sport and Nova…

Discovery has said it “remains resolute” in its defence of its Polish business interests after the lower house of the country’s parliament (Sejm) passed a bill which could force the US media group to gi…

Romanian pay-television broadcaster Digi Sport has retained its rights to French football’s Ligue 1 until the end of the 2023-24 season.

Commercial and pay-television broadcaster Nova Sport has launched two new sports channels after adding a raft of premium football content to its offering in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Hungarian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has renewed a rights agreement for football’s English Premier League and signed a new deal to cover the German Bundesliga, while also preparing t…

The Ukrainian Association of Football has signed gambling platform VBet as title sponsor of its domestic cup competition

The Saran Media Group has secured media rights to Italian football's Serie A across 17 countries spanning the Commonwealth of Independent States region, Eastern Europe and Turkey for the three seasons…

The Professional Triathletes Organisation has agreed a sponsorship deal for its new Collins Cup competition with Zwift

Pay-television broadcaster Polsat has expanded its agreement with the Polish Football Association (PZPN) and 1 Liga to offer all matches from the second tier of domestic football via its OTT streaming…

Media company Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has agreed a multi-year distribution deal with Polish cable television operator UPC, whose customers will be able to access Nent's Viaplay streaming service