Europe

The Russian Boxing Federation is confident it will host the 2017 World Boxing Championships following discussions with the International Boxing Association (AIBA).

World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn has unveiled a ‘Home Series’ of ranking events as part of a new five-year strategic plan for the sport that will take effect from 2016.

European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR), the organisers of the European Rugby Champions Cup and Challenge Cup tournaments, has appointed Vincent Gaillard and Simon Halliday to fill senior management positions designed to drive the organisation forward.

European Athletics, the continental governing body for track and field, has formed an affiliated sports marketing company in collaboration with the Tridem Sport agency.

Sport’s major rights-holders will be watching closely this month as the European Commission (EC) unveils its attack against thegeo-blocking of media content. Owen Evans finds out what it could mean for the sale of broadcast rights going forward.

The Russian Sports Ministry has confirmed plans to introduce restrictions on the number of foreign footballers in the domestic league in order to enhance the development of Russian playing talent ahead of the 2018 Fifa World Cup in the country.

Britain’s high-end athletic stars have teamed up with a German supermarket known for rock-bottom prices. Matthew Glendinning and Owen Evans look at whether it is a match made in heaven or double trouble for the British Olympic Association (BOA).

The Dutch Olympic Committee (NOC*NSF) has voted in favour of launching a nationwide bid for the 2019 edition of the European Games multi-sport event.

AC Milan has reported losses of €91.3m ($98.2m) in 2014 as takeover speculation continues to swirl around the embattled Italian Serie A football club.

Michael Downey, the Canadian businessman in charge of reviving British tennis as CEO of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), on taking on the old guard and why his organisation is not having an identity crisis.

The X Games action sports franchise is closing in on a return to Europe after Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 signed a partnership with the Norwegian Ski and Snowboard Association to secure an event for Oslo.

The All England Club, organiser of the Wimbledon Championships, has defended its decision to increase prize money for this year’s event to a total of £26.75m (€37.4m/$41m), the highest of the four grand slam tennis tournaments.

English Premier League side West Bromwich Albion has set a deadline of May 31 for parties interested in purchasing the football club, according to multiple UK media reports.

Europe’s principal domestic leagues have written to Patrick Baumann, the secretary general of Fiba, to criticise proposed changes to the international calendar in 2017 and call upon the global governing body of basketball to involve clubs in “all decisions that have an impact on their activity.”

How do you successfully market a sports event with no history to fans in both the host market and across an entire continent? Elisha Chauhan asked Baku 2015 European Games Head of Marketing Rob Smyth.

Elisha Chauhan travelled to Baku to gain first-hand experience of preparations for the inaugural European Games, the biggest sporting event to be held in Azerbaijan. What legacy will they leave for the city?