Hungary

Italy and Hungary are among the latest UEFA member associations to benefit from UEFA's HatTrick assistance programme.

Infront Sports & Media has reached two long-term agreements with Czech TV for television rights to the IIHF World Championships in ice hockey from 2007 to 2011 and the European Handball Championships between 2004 and 2010.

Paragon Sports Management, the London-based corporate hospitality and athlete management agency, has teamed up with Eddie Irvine’s ‘Track Marque’ Hospitality business.

Jean-Claude Darmon could end up with as much as ten percent of Sportfive as he continues negotiations with its new owners, sportbusiness.com can reveal.

Archive sports network ESPN Classic Sport is branching out even further by rolling out a new English-language channel in over 50 European countries.

Pan-regional broadcaster Viasat Sport has renewed its TV rights deal for coverage of the US PGA Tour.

UEFA has signed the first batch of wireless rights for the 2003-2006 Champions League seasons.

UEFA and its partnering agency TEAM Marketing have concluded a number of TV rights negotiations for the next Champions League contract after announcing a raft of new deals.

ESPN has signed a number of major new European TV deals for the Indy Racing League, just prior to its calendar highlight, the Indianapolis 500 this weekend.

MotoGP has secured new television deals with major terrestrial networks in both Belgium and the Republic of Ireland for the upcoming 2003 season.

Four of the seven candidates to host the 2008 European Championships have been rejected by UEFA following today's vote in Geneva.

Austria and Switzerland will jointly host the 2008 European Championships following a vote of UEFA members.

UEFA president Lennary Johansson has told the failed bidders for the Euro 2008 soccer tournament to try again and fight for the 2012 finals.

The bidding cities hoping to host UEFA's Euro 2008 tournament are making their final presentations to European soccer's governing body today, ahead of tomorrow's final decision.

UEFA has refuted claims the bid from Russia and the joint bid from Greece/Turkey to host Euro 2008 stood less chance than the other bidders.

Two bids to host UEFA's Euro 2008 tournament have emerged as favourites after the president of European soccer's governing body seemed to pour doubts on a number of the other bids.