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European soccer body UEFA says it is to plough 35 million Swiss francs ($23.57 million) back into the sport this season.

European athletics chiefs have agreed to stage a new indoor European Cup in 2001, an athletics source said recently.

The main shareholder in Romania's National Bucharest has had his licence withdrawn by the country's soccer federation for failing to honour the contracts of 15 players, a club official has said.

The head of Romania's referees panel, dismissed this week by domestic soccer bosses over an attempted crackdown on dubious refereeing, has appealed to European governing body UEFA.

English Premier League side Leicester could pocket up to #7million from a new sponsorship deal with IT electronics manufacturer LG Electronics.

The EURO 2000 football championships were watched by a cumulative audience of seven billion people, a new survey reveals.

Romania on Friday extended a ban on referee Florin Chivulete after he was accused of offering women to match officials, ruling him out of domestic as well as international soccer.

The head of a leading sport marketing company in Romania has slammed the International Gymnastics Federation (GIF) for failing to allow payment at GIF sanctioned events.

World and European soccer champions France have launched a publicity campaign aimed at keeping the French public interested in the team.

The president of Rapid Bucharest has been banned from any involvement with the Romanian first division club for six months for forging the contract of a player's transfer, the country's soccer federation (FRF) said in a statement.

Celta Vigo's Russian international Valery Karpin is hoping to finish the season with the status of a European Union national after taking his case to a Madrid court this week.

Andreea Raducan, the Romanian gymnast stripped of a gold medal in Sydney for taking a banned substance, has said she will sue the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to clear her name.

Rapid Bucharest may be banned from international competition by FIFA for using an unauthorised agent to set up a player's transfer abroad, a Romanian official has said.

The Euro 2000 website received more than a billion visits during the championships, making it one of the most popular sites ever, according to the company hosting the site.

Alec McGivan, the director of England's campaign to stage the 2006 World Cup, has questioned the motives behind UEFA's threat to expel England from Euro 2000 following incidents of hooliganism.

UEFA chief executive Gerhard Aigner has justified the threat to kick England out of Euro 2000, saying the hooligans posed "specific problems" related to drink and the large numbers who arrive without match tickets.