Europe

Newmarket racecourse will host the inaugural Varsity horse race between UK universities Oxford and Cambridge on October 17.

German Bundesliga football club Borussia Dortmund has extended the contract of chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke through to 2019.

English Premier League football club Sunderland has struck a partnership with Major League Soccer’s DC United.

BayernLB has rejected a €25m ($33.5m) settlement offer from Bernie Ecclestone in relation to the Formula One chief executive’s involvement in the 2005 sale of the German bank’s stake in the series.

The Russian government has approved a subsidy in excess of R5.5bn (€117.6m/$160.3m) for the construction of infrastructure relating to the country’s hosting of the 2018 Fifa World Cup.

The Netherlands Handball Federation (NHV) remains banned from hosting any European Handball Federation (EHF) national team competitions until December 2016 following a ruling by the federation’s court of arbitration (ECA).

The European Triathlon Union has announced that its 2015 Long Distance Triathlon Championships will take place in Weymouth, UK.

The European Handball Federation (EHF) has revealed details of Sweden, Austria and Norway’s proposal to co-host the 2020 European Championships, with the organisation stating that its flagship men’s national team event is now “likely” to be the first involving 24 teams and held in three countries.

Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone is set to remain the figurehead of the motor-racing series after a German court today (Tuesday) dropped a bribery case against him following the 83-year-old agreeing a $100m (€73.5m) payment to end the trial.

The English Premier League has outlined plans for a new European U-21 tournament that would involve eight clubs from the top division of English football, along with eight teams from Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland and Spain.

Ajaz Ahmed, chief executive of advertising agency AKQA, will join the seventh edition of the Leaders Sport Business Summit in London, which takes place on October 8-9 at Stamford Bridge, home of English Premier League football club Chelsea.

The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, which concluded yesterday (Sunday), have been hailed as the best in the multi-sport event’s 84-year history by the outgoing chief executive of the Commonwealth Games Federation.

FIM Europe, the European arm of the International Motorcycling Federation, has agreed a deal with the Youthstream agency to take management of the MXGP Academy project in-house.

Kevin Roberts spoke to Deloitte's Dan Jones and AC Milan director Umberto Gandini about commercial challenges and opportunities in a European football landscape where the gap between rich and poor grows greater and greater.

A Spanish court has halted Real Madrid's proposed construction work at its Santiago Bernabeu stadium due to an ongoing investigation into allegations that the Liga football club benefited unfairly from state support.

The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has confirmed that Hyères in France and Weymouth in the UK will host the two European rounds during the 2015 Sailing World Cup series.