Fan Engagement

Football
Fan Engagement

Dutch clubs like SC Heerenveen have sold large numbers of season tickets prior to the 2020-21 Eredivisie season, despite there being no guarantees spectators will be allowed to attend matches. Callum McCarthy reports.
Events

Saudi Arabian football team Al Hilal has criticised the Asian Football Confederation for kicking it out of this year's Champions League, saying it should have had "greater flexibility" - AFP/CNA
Football
Fan Engagement

Spanish football’s LaLiga has today (Wednesday) announced a global licensing agreement with Iqoniq, the fan-engagement app becoming increasingly active in the sports sector.
Football
Attendance

Mounting delays to 2022 World Cup qualifiers due to Covid-19 are becoming a problem and a shortening of the format is a possibility
Sponsorship & Marketing

An upstart daily fantasy company with an unusual name and unconventional approach has quickly risen to prominence by challenging established market leaders DraftKings and FanDuel and striking a large series of team sponsorships.
Cricket
Sponsorship & Marketing

Indian Premier League champions the Mumbai Indians have announced several new sponsorship deals and said their sponsorship income this season will match 2019
Basketball
Sports Betting

Liga ACB, the top tier of Spanish basketball, has extended its exclusive official data partnership with Genius Sports Group
Tennis
Fan Engagement

The International Tennis Hall of Fame has added a new interactive element to its fan voting initiative, which is being sponsored this year by French international banking group BNP Paribas
Table Tennis
Events

World Table Tennis is running an event in Macau on November 25-29 to showcase some of the features of its upcoming revamp of International Table Tennis Federation competitions
Football
Technology

The Eredivisie, the top division of Dutch football, has announced that it has teamed up with two Netherlands-based companies to supplement the data collection and sharing from its matches
Sponsorship & Marketing

Senior Property Manage of Global Sponsorship at SAP
Football
Fan Engagement

Sports data and technology company Stats Perform will continue to exclusively collect and manage data from Belgian football’s top-tier Jupiler Pro League and second-tier 1B Pro League through its Opta d…
Curling
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Infront agency has struck an exclusive six-year agreement with the Italian Ice Sports Federation (FISG) covering marketing, sponsorship and digital rights
Rugby Union
Fan Engagement

World Rugby has launched a fan survey in order to form a global rugby fan panel which aims to shape the governing body's broadcast, content production and social media rugby offering
Cricket
Sponsorship & Marketing

America's top athletes could be banned from the Olympics and other major international sporting events if the US follows through on its threat to withdraw funding from the World Anti-Doping Agency - Reuters
Fan Engagement

NBC Sports Regional Networks has unveiled a comprehensive redesign of its portfolio of mobile web and desktop sites, which is designed to significantly enhance the user experience.
Basketball
Fan Engagement

The NBA has taken fan engagement in the wake of Covid-19 to a new level by allowing at-home viewers to be seen and heard by their favorite players in Orlando. Bob Williams reports
Multi-sport
Fan Engagement

Indian online sports platform FanCode has added ‘FanCode Shop’, an online sports merchandise store, to its multi-sport aggregator platform.