Italy

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has announced a series of rule changes and innovations that will be trialled at its inaugural Next Gen Finals event in November in an effort to attract new and younger fans to the sport.

Giovanni Malagò has been re-elected as president of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), while his counterpart at the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), Denis Masseglia, will serve a third term in office after seeing off rival candidates.

Italian Serie A football club Cagliari has announced that it will build a temporary stadium, which will be used while its new 21,000-capacity ground is being constructed.

Giro d’Italia organiser RCS Sport has hit out after being forced to cancel its plans to introduce a new classification to reward the cycling event’s best downhill rider amid a backlash over the safety implications of such an initiative.

Italian Football Federation (FIGC) president Carlo Tavecchio has signalled his intention to drive through reform at Lega Serie A after being installed as commissioner of the body that oversees the top division of domestic football.

The ‘Ndrangheta – the Calabrian mafia – has successfully infiltrated football in Italy. As Frank Dunne explains, some fear that its influence may now be spreading to Spain and beyond.

The Italian capital of Rome looks set to host a leg on the Formula E electric car-racing circuit after city officials agreed to approve permits to stage a race.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s holding company, Fininvest, has today (Thursday) completed the sale of its 99.93-per-cent stake in Serie A football club AC Milan to Luxembourg-based Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has entered into a partnership with the Italian Golf Federation.

Rome’s staging of the 2022 Ryder Cup has been secured after the Italian government signed off on a financial guarantee for the golf showpiece, along with Cortina d’Ampezzo’s hosting of the 2021 FIS Alpine Ski World Championships.

A free report, commissioned from SportBusiness by the Budapest 2024 Olympic Games bid, surveying attitudes to, and media consumption habits around, the Olympic Games.

The Chinese consortium seeking to acquire Italian Serie A football club AC Milan has seen its ailing efforts boosted through financial backing from US private equity fund Elliott, as the closing date for the takeover slips once more.

The International Canoe Federation (ICF) has announced that Lake Bagsvaerd in Denmark will host its Canoe Sprint World Championships in 2021, while the Slovakian capital of Bratislava is to stage its Canoe Slalom World Championships in the same year.

The Turkish city of Erzurum is preparing a bid for the 2026 winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, while Milan is said to be considering returning Italy to the bidding table for the summer Games for its 2028 edition.

Fiorentina has unveiled plans for a new 40,000-capacity stadium, while fellow Italian Serie A football club Cagliari has announced that work on its new ground will begin within a month.

The Velon umbrella body of professional cycling teams has agreed a deal with Italian sports and media company RCS Sport to begin using rider performance-tracking technology at certain events as part of a wider effort to boost fan engagement in the sport.