England

Leaders has announced that the seventh edition of the Leaders Sport Business Summit is set to sell out in record time.

Work to convert the London 2012 Olympic Stadium for use by English Premier League football team West Ham United is set to cost an additional £15m (€18.8m/$24.9m), according to UK broadcaster Sky News.

The English Premier League has smashed its transfer spending record in the summer 2014 window, with the £835m (€1.05bn/$1.38bn) gross expenditure of domestic clubs being close to double that of the next highest-spending league – the Spanish Liga.

Hans Erik Tuijt, global activation director for Heineken and Christian Deuringer, director of global brand management at Allianz, are the latest speakers to be revealed for the Leaders Sport Business Summit, which takes place on October 8-9 at Stamford Bridge in London.

English Premier League club Manchester United has launched on Line, one of Asia’s largest social messaging platforms.

English Premier League (EPL) football club Aston Villa has appointed former Arsenal chief commercial officer Tom Fox as its new chief executive.

British Cycling has announced that the velodrome used during London’s hosting of the 2012 summer Olympic Games will host the second round of the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) 2014-15 Track World Cup later this year.

Jim Pallotta, chairman and president of Italian Serie A football club AS Roma and managing director of financial services firm Raptor Group, is the latest speaker to be revealed for the Leaders Sport Business Summit in London on October 8-9.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has said he is still in favour of the contentious proposal to add a ‘39th game’ to the season, adding that he believes clubs in the top division of English football are also supportive of such a plan.

London will host the 2015 finals of the European Rugby Champions Cup and European Rugby Challenge Cup, the continent’s new premier rugby union club tournaments.

Newmarket racecourse will host the inaugural Varsity horse race between UK universities Oxford and Cambridge on October 17.

English Premier League football club Sunderland has struck a partnership with Major League Soccer’s DC United.

The European Triathlon Union has announced that its 2015 Long Distance Triathlon Championships will take place in Weymouth, UK.

Ajaz Ahmed, chief executive of advertising agency AKQA, will join the seventh edition of the Leaders Sport Business Summit in London, which takes place on October 8-9 at Stamford Bridge, home of English Premier League football club Chelsea.

The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has confirmed that Hyères in France and Weymouth in the UK will host the two European rounds during the 2015 Sailing World Cup series.

The Glazer family, which owns Manchester United, has announced that it will sell about five per cent of its shareholding in the English Premier League football club.