Latin America

Basketball
Licensing & Merchandising

Sporting goods retailer Decathlon has announced a new multi-year merchandising agreement with the National Basketball Association
Football
Media

Broadcasters in Australia and New Zealand have been asked to lodge their first-round bids for Uefa Champions League rights by the middle of next month following the launch of the sales process by the Team…
Football
Media

Brazilian media group Globo is reported to have arranged to meet a delegation from world football’s governing body Fifa to clear the air between the two parties after their relationship has become strained i…
Football
Media

The Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) has announced that telco Telecel submitted the highest bid in the most recent tender for media rights to Bolivian club football, bidding over $12m (€9.9m) per season.
Basketball
Media

Euroleague Basketball has agreed a renewal with pay-television broadcaster DirecTV Latin America that guarantees continued coverage of the EuroLeague competition in South America and the Caribbean
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Liga MX, Mexico’s top-flight football competition, has appointed IMG as its exclusive commercial agency for global sponsorships until 2023.
Motorsport
Events

Formula 1’s deal with the new promoter of the São Paulo Grand Prix in Brazil has been placed into doubt after a judge decided to temporarily suspend the contract reported to be worth R$100m (€15.4m/$18.8m).
Football
Finance & Law

City Football Group has announced a tie-up with Bolivia’s most successful domestic team, Club Bolívar, making the side its first ever partner club. 
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Flagship Mexican football division, the Liga MX, has signed up the Heineken-owned brand Tecate as its beer sponsor
Football
Media

Broadcast rights to the Uefa Champions League, Europa League and new third-tier Europa Conference League are poised to hit the market in Brazil, it has been reported
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Online sports betting platform Betano has taken over as the main shirt sponsor of Brazilian football club Atlético Mineiro in a move disputed by the former main sponsor, banking group BMG.
Golf
Events

Golf's PGA Tour has cancelled the 2021 season of its Chinese developmental tour, the PGA Tour Series-China, due to the Covid-19 pandemic
Motorsport
Events

Rio de Janeiro’s Mayor, Eduardo Paes, has said he will seek to identify a new site for the city’s proposed new motorsport circuit, as financial details behind São Paulo’s extended race contract with F…
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Japanese video game developer Konami has further enhanced its football sponsorship portfolio by agreeing a deal with Brazilian Campeonato Brasileiro Série A team Santos.
Football
Media

The Walt Disney Company is being sued by Mexican Liga MX club Santos Laguna over allegations of contractual violation as a by-product of Disney’s 21st Century Fox acquisition in 2019.
Football
Media

Athletico Paranaense have become the first Brazilian football club to show a live Série A match on Twitch, as the club used the platform to broadcast its home fixture against Vasco Da Gama via pay per …
Football
Media

Sports TV Rights' four-year deal for exclusive rights to domestic Bolivian football, from 2021 to 2024, was annulled at the Bolivian Football Federation's (FBF) extraordinary congress on December 29, leaving…
Football
Media

Torneos, the Argentinian rights agency, and Global Sports Rights Management, the agency that holds international broadcast rights to the top two Brazilian football leagues, have formed an alliance to commercialise…