Europe

The German Olympic Committee, the DOSB, has selected Hamburg over Berlin as its applicant city for the 2024 summer Olympic Games.

The Turkish Golf Federation (TGF) has once again opted to withdraw its bid to host the 2022 Ryder Cup despite having re-entered the bidding process for the golf tournament in November last year.

English rugby union’s top tier club competition the Premiership will hold talks over plans to expand to 14 teams through temporarily suspending promotion and relegation.

Crisis-hit Italian Serie A football team Parma has been hit with a further two-point penalty for failing to pay its players’ wages, as the club prepares to face a bankruptcy hearing on Thursday.

Barcelona has vowed to challenge a decision to indict the Spanish Liga football club, its president Josep Maria Bartomeu and his predecessor Sandro Rosell on alleged tax evasion in relation to the 2013 signing of Brazilian superstar Neymar.

Spanish Liga football club Barcelona and president Josep Maria Bartomeu will face trial over alleged tax evasion in the 2013 signing of Brazilian superstar Neymar, it was announced today (Friday).

Public spending on the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games was more than £37m (€50.7m/$57m) under budget, according to a new report by Scotland’s Accounts Commission.

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has agreed a five-year deal, from the 2015-16 season until 2019-20, to increase the amount of money it pays to teams in the Championship second-tier domestic club competition.

Romanian authorities have said they will put forward a joint bid from Bucharest and Cluj for the 2021 summer Universiade multi-sport event.

The International Aquatics Association (Fina) has announced that Budapest will be the new host of its 17th World Championships and World Masters Championships in July 2017.

London-based financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald Europe (CFE) has announced the establishment of a sports finance group.

Leaders has unveiled a new one-day summit dedicated to women’s sport and the contribution of women working in sport around the world.

Silvio Berlusconi, owner of Italian Serie A football club AC Milan, has reportedly signed a preliminary agreement to sell a 30 per cent stake in the team to Thai businessman Bee Taechaubol.

The Norwegian city of Oslo has given its backing to a proposal from commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 to return the X Games action sports event to Europe in 2016.

Moscow, 7th March 2015: With the growth of domestic football in Russia and preparations to host several high-profile international sport events well underway, the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) this week delivered their first safety and security workshop with the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL) in Moscow.

European football’s governing body Uefa is preparing to establish a domestic league in the disputed territory of Crimea.