Monaco

France's national soccer league (LNF) has elected a new chairman in a close contest fought out over the fate of income from lucrative television rights.
Media

Sportel, the international meeting place for the television distribution and programming market, is expanding its outreach to new media and advertising companies for SPORTEL's 11th International Sports Television Convention, to be held in Monte Carlo November 5-8, 2000.

Prost chief designer and technical director Alan Jenkins has left the struggling Formula One team, team sources said.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has been appointed to conduct the balloting for the inaugural Laureus Sports Awards 2000.

French soccer champions Monaco have begun to lay a new pitch at the Stade Louis II to replace one regarded as the worst in the first division.

Juventus's Alessandro Del Piero is the world's best paid soccer player, according to a survey conducted by the magagzine France Football.
Events

A new annual international sports awards ceremony will be inaugurated in Monaco on May 25. The Laureus Sports Awards, will be hosted by stars of the entertainment world such as Jeff Bridges, Ashley Judd and Dylan McDermott and will broadcast to a hoped-for global audience of 1 billion viewers.
Events

NHL International, in conjunction with ESPN International, will distribute the 2000 NHL
Business

InterClubNet Ltd, the communication system provider, has unveiled InterClub, a private and secure communication and information system for football clubs and officially recognised bodies. The system, which is due to launch at the end of May, allows clubs to exchange player transfer information online, as well as providing a forum for other club business such as arranging friendly matches and merchandising agreements.

The Monte Carlo Rally is poised to be thrown out of the World Championship, following the cancellation of the sixth special stage of last month?s rally on safety grounds.
Media

The team behind KOTV - the first international 30-minute weekly boxing highlights TV programme – says pre-sales have exceeded expectations as it prepares for the bell later this month.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Soccerex 2001 has been postponed until next April following the terrorist attacks in the US.
Business

Sponsorship research agency S:Comm Research is relaunching its corporate website.
Media

European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, has relaunched its website – which will spearhead its new media division.
Sponsorship & Marketing

German-based company UFA Sports, which has made its name by snapping up TV rights to European soccer clubs, has secured deals with more than half of the clubs playing in the first round of this year’s UEFA Cup competition.
Business

Joan Gaspart, president of Spanish soccer side Barcelona, has today vetoed efforts by the G-14 group of top European soccer clubs to expand the group’s club representation.
Business

English soccer club Chelsea is in talks with Italian club Lazio about setting up a rival to the G14 group of top European clubs.