Europe

English Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur has had revised plans to develop what will be London’s biggest club football stadium approved by its local Haringey Council.

The International Triathlon Union (ITU) has finalised its calendar for 2016, with the addition of a new World Cup event in Italy and further development of the winter triathlon discipline.

Spanish LaLiga football club Real Madrid has suffered a fresh blow in its efforts to redevelop the Santiago Bernabeu stadium after the city council rejected the plans, stating they were not in the public interest.

Dutch Eredivisie football club FC Twente has been banned from European competition for three seasons after the Dutch Football Association (KNVB) ruled it “deliberately misled” the governing body over its relationship with Doyen Sports Investments, a subsidiary of private investment fund Doyen Group.

Italian-American automotive giant Fiat Chrysler has touted the return of its Alfa Romeo brand to the Formula One motor racing series as a competitor to Ferrari.

Real Madrid explained its new data-driven fan engagement project with Microsoft to an international group of journalists and analysts in Madrid in November. SportBusiness Group analyst Lukas Zajancauskas was there.

British automotive marque Jaguar will return to top-level motorsport next year after today (Tuesday) announcing its entry into the Formula E electric car-racing series.

Ice hockey’s Kontinental Hockey League is to expand into China with a new Beijing-based team set to enter the competition in September 2016.

World Rugby, the global governing body of rugby union, has confirmed that the French city of Clermont-Ferrand will stage the finale of the 2015-16 Women’s Sevens Series next May.

World Archery has announced that the Dutch city of s-Hertogenbosch – better known as Den Bosch – will host the 2019 edition of its World Archery Championships and World Archery Para Championships.

Rome will host the 2022 Ryder Cup after the Italian capital today (Monday) edged out competition from Austria, Germany and Spain to land golf’s showpiece team event.

The Fiba Europe division of basketball’s global governing body has confirmed Finland, Israel, Romania and Turkey as co-hosts of the EuroBasket 2017 national team tournament and announced hosts for a series of youth events.

Uefa has confirmed it is considering introducing goal-line technology (GLT) for Euro 2016 ahead of its possible use in the Champions League and Europa League next season, while prize money has been substantially raised for next summer’s edition of the leading national team event of European football’s governing body.

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has outlined plans for the restructuring of its beach volleyball events programme, while Poland has been confirmed as the host country for next year’s Volleyball World League Finals.

The International Association of Athletics Federations has today (Friday) outlined the terms of reference for its taskforce dedicated to the reform of the suspended All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF), with IAAF president Sebastian Coe stating the conditions leave “no room for doubt”.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has pushed forward with its plans to overhaul the European game by forming two working groups dedicated to its efforts.