New Zealand

The International Rugby Board said that as part of its continued review of the International Match and Tours Schedule and the creation of a fully integrated season the seventh Rugby World Cup Tournament in New Zealand will take place in September-October 2011.

Taj TV agreed a deal with US satellite TV provider DIRECTV to produce its new Cricket Plus Channel.

Rugby union’s premier European club competition, the Heineken Cup, has secured distribution in over 100 countries.

The Wellington Racing Club (WRC) agreed a deal with Century City Developments to sponsor horse racing's Wellington Cup.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) said that it would launch the next stage of its sale of media and sponsorship rights for its events, from late 2007 to 2015, this month.

Australia's home Bledisloe Cup test against New Zealand in 2007 will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and not Sydney.

The International Cricket Council said it will shortly start the process of selling media and sponsorship rights to events taking place between the second half of 2007 and the ICC Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2015.

With more than 2 months to go before the opening of SPORTELMonaco 2006, exhibitors have committed to more than 85% of the expanded floor space in the Grimaldi Forum.

Car manufacturer Volvo confirmed it is to sponsor November's New Zealand Golf Open at Gulf Harbour.

The New Zealand government said it will pay its national cricket body NZ$406,000 in compensation for the cancellation of last year's tour by Zimbabwe.

New Zealand’s Jade Stadium in Christchurch is to get a revamp for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

The International Rugby Board (IRB) has announced another year of record TV broadcast figures for the popular IRB Sevens World Series.

Motor racing series A1 Grand Prix unveiled a provisional calendar of 13 races for its second season, 2006-07. The season kicks off on October 1, 2006 at Circuit Park Zandvoort in the Netherlands and concludes at Brands Hatch in the UK, on April 29, 2007. A New Zealand race, although still to be confirmed, is new to the calendar, while races at the EuroSpeedway and Estoril have disappeared from the calendar.

The FC)dC)ration Internationale de l’Automobile approved the calendar for the 2007 World Rally Championship, adding three new races in Ireland, Norway and Portugal. The new races replace those in Australia, Cyprus and Turkey. The FIA said in a statement that its World Motor Sport Council had approved a calendar which would continue to run on the existing January-November format instead of the proposed August-May switch. It said that it would decide whether to add further events to the calendar at its next World Motor Sport Council meeting.

Chiefs of the A1 Grand Prix series have agreed a variety of technical and commercial changes for the motorsport’s second season.

One of the world's largest synthetic turf manufacturers, TigerTurf International has started a push into the North and Latin America markets.