Eastern Europe

Basketball
Sponsorship & Marketing

Betting and gaming operator OlyBet has agreed a deal with Euroleague Basketball to sponsor this season’s edition of the EuroLeague Final Four.
Boxing
Media

TV3 Group, the broadcaster in the Baltic region, has extended its exclusive media rights agreement with the UK promoter Boxxer
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina (NS/FS BiH) has agreed a new kit supply deal with Spanish sportswear and equipment manufacturer Kelme
Skiing
Governance

The four national ski associations of Austria, Croatia, Germany and Switzerland have withdrawn their joint appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) concerning the controversial re-election of…
Multi-sport
Events

Seoul will look to bid for the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games, but will not seek to rekindle a proposal put forward for the 2032 Games involving North Korean capital Pyongyang, while Latvia has looked…
Weightlifting
Events

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced that five bidders are in contention to host its 2024 World Championships, with the strong potential for the event to head to a new market
Football
Events

The Sportfive agency has been appointed to sell hospitality packages for the Polish national team’s home qualifiers for next year’s Uefa Euro 2024 tournament.
Multi-sport
Host Broadcast & Production

Mediapro, the broadcast production group and rights agency, has been appointed as the host broadcaster for the 2023 European Games in Kraków and the Małopolska region. The Spain-based group will work with Polish company Festival Group to produce live coverage of the two-week event.
Basketball
Media

Euroleague Basketball has renewed its exclusive rights deals with United Media-owned broadcasters Nova and Sportklub for five more seasons, from 2023-24 to 2027-28.
Ice Hockey
Media

An invitation to tender process has been launched for the domestic, international and betting video rights to the Czech Extraliga, the top ice hockey league in the Czech Republic, covering five seasons…
Motorcycling
Media

Albanian sports broadcaster Tring Sport has renewed its deal with Dorna Sports, the commercial rights-holder for MotoGP, for an additional three years until 2025
Multiple Sports
Media

Polish public-service broadcaster Telewizja Polska is to receive PLN2.35bn (€491.2m/$526.3m) in government funding after its annual grant was approved.
Ice Hockey
Fan Engagement

The National Hockey League is taking Hockey Day community events to Czech Republic and Finland for the first time in March as the league seeks to increase global fan engagement
Volleyball
Media

Max Sport, the Bulgarian pay-TV broadcaster owned by telco A1, has picked up rights to Italy’s top-tier volleyball league.
Multi-sport
Governance

The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) has given its support to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) efforts to further develop means by which Russians and Belarusians c…
Multi-sport
Governance

The International Olympic Committee has further progressed efforts to have Russian and Belarusians compete as neutral athletes ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, following a meeting of its Executive…
Football
Media

Pay-TV broadcaster Canal Plus is to simulcast live coverage of the Polish Ekstraklasa on its free-to-watch YouTube channel to mark the league’s return from an extended winter break.
Ice Skating
Events

Seoul will host the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships for the third time in 2025, after the International Skating Union (ISU) awarded hosting rights for three of its major events