South-East Asia

Football
Events

The Asian Football Confederation has rescheduled some group stage matches for the AFC Cup 2021, due to a potential fixture clash with the AFC Champions League East playoff
Football
Stadia

Singapore-based football club Lion City Sailors have started construction on a S$10m ($7.5m/€6.2m) training facility set to the be a first-of-its-kind football academy in Singapore.
Esports
Media

A peak concurrent streaming audience of 1.1 million watched the One Esports Dota 2 Singapore Major final earlier this month
Sponsorship & Marketing

Vietnamese agency Vietcontent has been appointed to manage the media and sponsorship rights for this year’s Southeast Asian Games.
Football
Media

Team Marketing has initiated the broadcast rights sales process for the Uefa club competitions from 2021-22 to 2023-24 in Canada and an array of countries and territories in Southeast Asia
Motorsport
Media

Indonesian state-owned broadcaster TVRI has signed a deal with electric motor racing series Formula E to show the remaining races of the 2020-21 World Championship
Golf
Sponsorship & Marketing

Lexus has signed a deal to become the official automotive sponsor of the HSBC Women’s World Championship golf tournament.
Motorsport
Events

Indonesia's return to MotoGP hosting has been postponed due to the pandemic and is now scheduled for March 2022
Cricket
Events

This year’s Global T20 Canada cricket tournament will be moved to Malaysia because of Covid-19-induced travel and health restrictions.
Cricket
Media

Streaming platform YuppTV has acquired rights for this year's Indian Premier League T20 cricket tournament in nearly 100 countries
Mixed Martial Arts
Media

The Professional Fighters League has secured a media rights deal with Vietnamese sports network FPT TV for the 2021 season, expanding the mixed martial arts organization's distribution in Asia
Esports
Industry Moves

Southeast Asian esports organisation Team Flash has appointed as chief executive Mark Chew, an experienced sports industry executive with a background at firms including Singaporean pay-television broadcaster…
Baseball
Media

Chinese streaming platform and internet giant Tencent has announced its first major sports media rights deal covering territories outside its home market, with a three-year deal for Major League Baseball…
Esports
Events

Officials in charge of this year's Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam have announced the venues for the event and the games in which esports competitions will be held
Netball
Events

Malaysian pay-television broadcaster Astro and the Malaysian Netball Association launched the inaugural Netball Super League last weekend
Equestrian
Media

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has acquired rights to broadcast highlights of the 2021 Polo Rider Cup, a polo event to be held in Chantilly on the outskirts of Paris
Golf
Events

The world’s top women golfers, including world number one Ko Jin-young, Danielle Kang and Park In-bee, have confirmed they will play in the re-scheduled HSBC Women's World Championship in Singapore next m…
Football
Business

Tunku Ismail Idris, the Crown Prince of Johor and owner of Malaysian Super League champions Johor Darul Ta'zim, has been credited with an interest in buying Spanish LaLiga club Valencia