Europe

Michel Platini attempted to play down talk of a rocky relationship between Uefa and football’s global governing body Fifa after being re-elected today (Tuesday) as president of the sport’s European governing body.

The Azerbaijani capital of Baku is to stage another major sports event after it was awarded the hosting rights to the 2020 European Karate Championships.

Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris, has thrown her support behind the French city’s bid for the 2024 summer Olympic Games.

Budapest has been confirmed as the host city for the 2017 Judo World Championships.

Spanish Liga football team Barcelona has reiterated its “total innocence” and hit out at the “inappropriate” nature of the legal proceedings it finds itself enveloped in after Spain’s public prosecutor requested a substantial fine for the club and jail terms for president Josep Maria Bartomeu and his predecessor Sandro Rosell.

Uefa has agreed upon a new financial distribution system for clubs competing in the Champions League and Europa League during the 2015–18 cycle, and has called for at least one more place at the Fifa World Cup.

The International Canoe Federation (ICF) has awarded hosting rights for 10 world championship events and has revealed reform plans to tie into the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Agenda 2020 efforts.

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) has confirmed the removal of the German Grand Prix from the 2015 Formula One calendar amid claims from the motor-racing series’ reigning world champions, Mercedes, that they tried to retain the race.

The European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) organisation has said it will back legal action against Fifa over the scheduling of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Germany’s National Olympic Committee (DOSB) members have unanimously accepted a recommendation from the board of the organisation to back Hamburg as the country’s applicant city to host the 2024 summer Olympic Games.

France has held off competition from South Korea to be awarded the 2019 Fifa Women’s World Cup.

SportAccord Convention has confirmed DB Schenker as the official transportation and logistics partner for this year’s World Sport & Business Summit, which takes place from April 19-24 at the Expocentre in Sochi, Russia.

Italian Serie A crisis club Parma has been declared bankrupt this (Thursday) afternoon following months of financial difficulties.

The planned redevelopment of Roland Garros, the Parisian home of the French Open tennis grand slam, has taken a new twist after the city’s council gave the go-ahead for a new study to take place into the proposed land use.

Athlete representation and sports marketing group TLA Worldwide has completed the acquisition of Australian and UK-based athlete management company Elite Sports Properties.

The Doyen Sports Investments (DSI) subsidiary of private investment fund Doyen Group has become the latest organisation to challenge the proposed ban on third-party ownership (TPO) in football.