Scotland
Genius and Sportradar settle Premier League data rights dispute
Betting data services company Genius Sports has announced the end of its competition dispute with rival data company Sportradar concerning the data rights to the English Premier League, English Football…
Regulator fines Rangers, Elite Sports and JD Sports in kit price-fixing case
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has imposed fines totalling over £2m (€2.24m/$2.16m)
SPFL secures backing to activate four-year Sky rights extension
The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL), organising body of the top four divisions of the domestic game, has signed off an extension to its domestic rights deal with pay-television broadcaster…
OFX links up with URC in new sponsorship
International foreign exchange company OFX has launched a new sponsorship deal with the United Rugby Championship (URC)
United Rugby Championship lands BKT as northern-hemisphere title sponsor
The United Rugby Championship (URC) has agreed a deal for Indian tyre manufacturer BKT to become its title sponsor in the northern hemisphere
EA Sports and Rangers pen ‘multi-year’ licensing agreement
Video game developer EA Sports has signed a ‘multi-year’ agreement with Scottish Premiership side Rangers.
Under the deal, EA Sports becomes the club’s exclusive ‘Official Video Game Partner’. The lice
BBC steps up Scottish Women’s Premier League commitment in new rights deal
The Scottish Women’s Premier League, the top tier of domestic women’s club football, has signed a new and improved three-season rights deal with public-service broadcasters BBC Alba and BBC Scotland.
Scottish Open to remain at Renaissance Club until 2026
Golf’s Scottish Open will continue to be held at the Renaissance Club in East Lothian until 2026, it has been announced.
SPOTV acquires Scottish Premiership rights in Japan
Streaming service SPOTV Now has acquired media rights in Japan for Scottish Premiership football in a deal beginning with the upcoming 2022-23 season
Rangers, JD Sports and Elite guilty of kit price fixing, says UK regulator
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally found that Scottish Premiership club Rangers, along with sportswear retailers Elite Sports and JD Sports, broke competition law by fixing t…
Dundee United signs QuinnCasino as new front-of-shirt sponsor
Scottish football club Dundee United has signed up online gambling platform QuinnCasino as its new front-of-shirt sponsor
Glasgow lands 2022 Billie Jean King Cup finals
The finals of women’s national team tennis event the Billie Jean King Cup will return to the UK for the first time since 1991 after the Scottish city of Glasgow was awarded hosting rights to this year’s eve…
Glasgow Rangers agrees partnership with All India Football Federation
Scottish football club Glasgow Rangers has agreed a "strategic and commercial partnership" with the All India Football Federation
Sports NFT platform Sportemon Go ceases token trading
Hibernian and Rangers have been dealt a blow after Sportemon Go, a sponsor of both Scottish football clubs, stopped trading its non-fungible tokens
New Recast technology ‘puts more power in rights-holders’ hands’
Live and on-demand video streaming platform Recast has unveiled new technology that it claims will make it easier for rights-holders to monetise their content
Sorare secures Scottish Premiership NFT licensing deal excluding Rangers
Sorare, the football-focused non-fungible token trading platform, is launching a collection of online fantasy game NFTs featuring top Scottish footballers in a licensing agreement with the Scottish Professional…
Texo replaces Saltire Energy as Aberdeen’s main shirt sponsor
Scottish football club Aberdeen has signed up industrial services provider Texo as its new shirt sponsor
Promotion ramped up for ‘on budget’ UCI Cycling World Championships in Scotland
Organisers of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow and across Scotland are preparing to step up the promotion of the event and remain confident it will be delivered to budget despite macroeconomic…