Eastern Europe

Biathlon
Events

The International Biathlon Union has confirmed the line-up of candidate cities bidding to host its Biathlon World Championships in 2024 and 2025
Motorsport
Events

Formula 1 has granted one-year contract extensions to organisers of the Hungarian, Italian and Belgian Grands Prix as a means of compensating them for the staging of races behind closed doors this year
Basketball
Media

International OTT streaming platform Megogo has acquired broadcast rights in Russia to the National Basketball Association in a deal running to 2023.
Football
Media

Football-focused digital media company Dugout will distribute content from the Ekstraklasa in a deal with the Polish top flight
Football
Host Broadcast & Production

The host broadcast of matches from the Nemzeti Bajnokság, the top-tier football championship in Hungary, is being undertaken with a reduced production set-up with no cameras allowed alongside the field …
Industry Moves

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus Poland has appointed Michal Kolodziejczyk to the newly created position of editorial sports director
Media

The Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group will launch its Viaplay services in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the first quarter of 2021, and has already started building its sports portfolio by acquiring…
Basketball
Events

The Basketball Champions League has announced that Turkish club Darüssafaka, Spanish team RETAbet Bilbao and Lithuanian outfit Rytas Vilnius will join the competition for the 2020-21 season.
Football
Media

The Saran Media agency has held on to LaLiga broadcast rights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from 2021-22 to 2025-26 in the latest five-year agreement signed by the Spanish top flight
Golf
Media

Discovery, the media group and owner of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport and subscription streaming service Dplay, will broadcast the first live golf since before the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown…
Cycling
Sponsorship & Marketing

UCI WorldTour cycling outfit CCC Team is seeking a new title sponsor after Polish shoe and bag retail group CCC elected to end its deal early amid wider financial struggles at the company
Mixed Martial Arts
Media

Baltic media group TV3 has agreed an exclusive, multi-year rights deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship to provide coverage of the mixed martial arts promotion in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Polish Football Association has signed up mobile phone network T-Mobile as an official sponsor
Boxing
Events

The International Boxing Association (Aiba) has reassigned hosting rights for its 2021 men’s World Championships to the Serbian capital of Belgrade after New Delhi did not fulfil its obligations to pay t…
Football
Media

Korea's K League has agreed media rights deals in 10 overseas markets, with potentially more to come, as it prepares to become one of the few football leagues in the world to resume play next month
Football
Media

Ukrainian telecoms operator Volia has agreed a distribution agreement with Media Group Ukraine for the new FC Shakhtar Donetsk club channel, Shakhtar TV
Football
Events

The Dutch Eredivisie has become the first top European football league to end its 2019-20 season due to Covid-19, while Poland’s Ekstraklasa has become one of the first to spell out formal plans for a…
Media

Slovakian public-service broadcaster RTVS has been granted a license by the country's Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission (RVR) to launch and operate a national digital sports channel