Oceania

Rugby Union
Events

The Bledisloe Cup, the annual rugby union competition contested by Australia and New Zealand, has been reduced from three fixtures to two
Mixed Martial Arts
Finance & Law

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand is considering increasing the price of its sports content after its latest financial report showed profit for the six months to December fell more than a quarter
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

National Rugby League franchise Melbourne Storm has announced a three-year sponsorship agreement with Australian cryptocurrency exchange platform Cointree until the end of the 2024 season
Motorsport
Media

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS has retained free-to-air rights to show the 2022 season of the Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK)
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

Wearable sports tech company STATSports has completed a three-year deal with New Zealand Rugby to become the official high-performance supplier of the All Blacks until 2024
Rugby League
Sponsorship & Marketing

Australian rugby league franchise Wests Tigers has announced a four-year sponsorship agreement with Sydney-based betting and online gaming brand PlayUp
Australian Rules Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

More than a third of Australian Football League supporters are concerned about gambling adverts during AFL matches, according to a survey conducted by the AFL Fans Association
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Martin Kugeler has been appointed as chief executive of Australian streaming service Stan on a permanent basis
Multiple Sports
Media

Australian pay-television broadcaster Foxtel is to significantly increase the amount of live programming it provides in ultra-high definition (UHD) across its Fox Sports channels
Rugby Union
Media

Sanzaar remains confident of agreeing a broadcast rights deal in the United Kingdom for international fixtures despite being unable to secure an agreement for the inaugural Super Rugby Pacific season
Football
Media

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has acquired the exclusive media rights in its home market for the English Premier League in a six-year deal, 2022-23 to 2027-28
Rugby League
Sponsorship & Marketing

Australia’s National Rugby League has signed cryptocurrency exchange Swyftx as its exclusive cryptocurrency exchange sponsor in a three-year deal, from 2022 to 2024, with a further two-year option until t…
Mixed Martial Arts
Media

Australian streaming service Stan Sports has secured exclusive Professional Fighters League broadcast rights in a “multi-year” agreement with the mixed martial arts promotion.
Rugby Union
Finance & Law

New Zealand Rugby and the New Zealand players’ union have agreed to an initial NZ$200m ($134.1m/€177.9m) investment in NZR’s commercial rights by US-based private equity company Silver Lake Partners. T
Multi-sport
Events

The Commonwealth Games Federation has entered an exclusive dialogue period with the state of Victoria as the Australian region looks set to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games
Tennis
Media

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven will attempt to win back domestic broadcast rights to the Australian Open when negotiations over the tennis grand slam's next rights cycle begin later this year
Australian Rules Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Eureka Stadium, the 11,000-seat sports ground in the Australian city of Ballarat, will continue to be known as Mars Stadium after multinational confectionary group Mars Wrigley extended its naming rights…
Swimming
Industry Moves

Three-time Olympic gold medallist Tracy Stockwell has been announced as the new president of Swimming Australia, the governing body for competitive swimming in the country