Europe

Football
Business

The upper echelons of European football have continued to achieve strong revenue growth over the last few years, seemingly unaffected by the challenges faced by the wider economy. Deloitte’s Sports Business Group examines the financial performance and characteristics of Europe’s top leagues. By Austin Houlihan and Andy Shaffer, with extracts from the Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance 2015.

Athletics
Media

Audience ratings and trends for major events in 2014-15 including the Fifa World Cup, Winter Olympics, Tour de France and more, with data from Eurodata TV Worldwide.The Fifa World Cup 2014 generated the largest average audience for a major international sports event (as opposed to domestic leagues and competitions) in four of the five major European markets in 2014-15. 

Football
Business

Josep Maria Bartomeu has been re-elected to serve a new six-year term as president of Barcelona, as the Spanish Liga football club’s members opted for continuity over the promise of reform put forward by former president Joan Laporta.

Gymnastics
Events

Austria will host the World Gymnaestrada for the third time in 2019 after the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) awarded the 16th edition of the event to the city of Dornbirn.

Motorsport
Events

The World Rallycross Championship has signed a multi-year deal for the Latvian capital of Riga to stage a round of the motor-racing series from 2016.

Football
Business

Barcelona has reported record turnover of €608m ($669m) for the 2014-15 financial year ahead of the Spanish Liga football club’s presidential election tomorrow (Saturday).
Events

The FISE World Series has unveiled a shortlist of four candidates to host new action sports events on its annual calendar from 2016.

Basketball

Euroleague Basketball chief executive and president, Jordi Bertomeu, has called on the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) to focus on improving its national team competitions amid the battle for power over the club game on the continent.

Football
Business

Sports and betting-related data company Sportradar has agreed a deal to become the official sports data partner of the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL) club competition.
Business

Leaders has announced that the eighth annual Leaders Sport Business Summit will be taking place at Stamford Bridge in London on October 7-8, 2015.

Football
Business

The Russian Football Union has confirmed new restrictions on the number of foreign footballers allowed to compete in the Russian Premier League.

Motorsport

Mercedes motorsport chief Toto Wolff has said the financing is in place to secure the German Grand Prix’s return to the Formula One calendar next year, while a US-based investment group is reportedly seeking to acquire a team in the motor-racing series.

Skating
Business

World footballers’ union FIFPro has pledged financial support to German Olympic speed skating champion Claudia Pechstein in her fight for damages concerning a doping ban.

Football
Business

Spanish football club Elche has lost its appeal against relegation from the top-tier Liga over unpaid taxes.
Business

Mediarex Sports & Entertainment (MSE), the parent company of the Global Poker Index (GPI) has secured $4.9m (€4.45m) in Series A funding from a round of private investors to finance its Sportify Poker initiative.

Golf
Stadia

Swedish Ryder Cup star Henrik Stenson has launched an eponymous golf course design company.

Cycling
Events

The Mayor of Dusseldorf, Thomas Geisel, has entered into talks to bring a stage of the Tour de France cycling event to the German city.

Basketball
Business

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has announced that the Boston Celtics will travel to face Spanish side Real Madrid in a pre-season match on October 8, in the latest addition to the NBA Global Games 2015 series.