Portugal
Events

The inaugural FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup kicked off in the land of Samba on Sunday.

The UK’s Rugby Football League (RFL) is to increase the number of tests conducted on individual players by more than a third over the next year, in its bid to keep the sport free of drug abuse.
Events

With less than a week to go before SPORTELAsia 2005, all floor space has been sold and more than 250 companies from 41 countries worldwide have registered for the market.
Events

ESPN Classic Sport has launched in Portugal on popular cable network Cabovisao.
Events

ESPN Classic Sport has launched in Portugal on popular cable network Cabovisao.
Events

Vodafone K.K. has agreed to sponsor Urawa Red Diamonds (Urawa Reds) soccer club in the J.League Division 1 (J1) for two years starting with the 2005 season.
Events

ESPN Classic Sport is set to launch in Belgium on Monday, following a carriage deal secured with leading Belgian cable operator Telenet.
Business

Sports leaders need to take a more pragmatic approach to new media’s role in sponsorship if they are to exploit its true value, according to the chairman of London and Leeds-based sports marketing company, Navigator.

Australian Alan Jones has become the second ex-Formula One world champion to link up with the new A1 Grand Prix series.

Australian Alan Jones has become the second ex-Formula One world champion to link up with the new A1 Grand Prix series.
Events

Next year's World Cup of Golf will be staged at the Victoria Clube de Golfe Course at Vilamoura in Portugal, the European Tour has announced.
Business

The European Sponsorship Association says its annual congress next month in Portugal will boast its largest ever number of participants.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Premier League soccer club Southampton has tied up a new deal with telecommunications giant T-mobile.
Business

The summer months have long been considered the Silly Season. It’s a time of the year when the attentions of otherwise serious people turn towards beaches and barbequeues, allowing everyday concerns to play second fiddle for a while. It’s the time of year when great sporting events dominate the casual conversational agenda and newspapers, glad of something to report, promote soccer players, tennis stars and IT Girls in very little except Ascot hats, to the front pages.
Events

The ball England captain David Beckham ballooned into the crowd during the Euro 2004 penalty shoot-out against hosts Portugal, has been sold at auction for just over EUR28,000.
Sponsorship & Marketing

UK video mobile network 3 this week launches its service devoted to the Open golf which gets underway tomorrow in Scotland.

The assistant tournament director of this summer’s Euro 2004 tournament in Portugal has died.
Media

The total audience for the Euro 2004 soccer tournament is set to far outweigh that of the Super Bowl, a major new study is to reveal.