Oceania

Tennis
Media

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has extended its rights to the ATP Tour in Australia for three further years, from 2025 to 2027, reinforcing its tennis offering in the country
Rugby Union
Media

Sky New Zealand’s exclusive negotiating period to renew its rights to New Zealand Rugby (NZR) and Sanzaar properties expired at the end of last month, but the pay-television broadcaster remains confident o…
Mass Participation
Sponsorship & Marketing

The upgrade of the TCS Sydney Marathon to World Marathon Major (WMM) status is akin to “joining the Champions League” or becoming a Grand Slam tennis tournament, according to the Infront agency.
Australian Rules Football
Industry Moves

The Australian Football League (AFL) has filled a key void in its commercial department, bringing in Nine Entertainment's Rebecca Haagsma as executive general manager of customer and commercial
Multiple Sports
Media

Australian commercial free-to-air broadcaster Nine is to introduce advertising content across all of its platforms, including subscription streaming service Stan Sport. 
Football
Media

The Australian Professional Leagues (APL), which oversees the men’s and women’s A-League competitions, has extended and expanded its media deal with Stats Perform, giving more inventory to sponsors.
Cricket
Media

Pay-television broadcaster Foxtel has re-affirmed its position as the 'home of cricket' in Australia with new deals for additional Cricket Australia domestic inventory
Motorsport
Events

Australia’s Supercars motorsport series will introduce a Finals Series in 2025 as it looks to ramp up interest ahead of the expiration of its rights deals with Foxtel and Seven.
Rugby League
Sponsorship & Marketing

Having agreed a flurry of Premier League club sponsorships in the last month, Red Bull has turned its sights to Australia and signed an expansive new deal with National Rugby League
Australian Rules Football
Media

Commercial broadcaster Seven Network has claimed a year-to-date audience best in Australia, after 6.1 million people watched its coverage of the AFL Grand Final.
Football
Media

Sky New Zealand has secured exclusive rights to the men’s and women’s A-Leagues for another three years, with a second New Zealand team joining for the coming season.
Rugby League
Governance

Australia’s National Rugby League is set to expand into Papua New Guinea after the federal government reportedly finalised an agreement for a 10-year funding plan for a new franchise in the country.
Multi-sport
Events

A ‘multi-million-pound’ funding offer from Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) looks set to assuage the Scottish government’s financial concerns and pave the way for a deal for Glasgow to stage the multi…
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

The newly branded Ninja A-League will benefit from at least 10 free-to-air matches in 2024-25 as part of its naming rights deal.
Football
Media

Paramount has laid down a signal of its intent internationally by retaining domestic media rights to the national team matches of Australia’s Matildas and Socceroos with an expanded level of inventory.
American Football
Media

NFL Game Pass will be available on Amazon Prime Video as an add-on in several of the league's key international markets thanks to a deal struck by the service's global distributor, DAZN
Football
Media

BeIN Media Group has struck a new rights deal for the English Football League, covering 27 countries across the Middle East and North Africa, France, Australia and New Zealand
Rugby League
Governance

The National Rugby League will be confident of securing an uplift in broadcast and commercial revenues in the next cycle, after it emerged an 18th franchise spot has been awarded to Western Australia.