Governance

Football
Finance & Law

No other football league or competition in Europe will be able to use the name, The Super League, after the European Union Trade Mark Office sided with Denmark's Superligaen A/S.
Football
Governance

Major League Soccer's San Jose Earthquakes has announced the club's MLS Next Pro team, Earthquakes II, will play under the name The Town FC after a licensing deal struck between the Town Group and MLS…
Football
Finance & Law

Premier League clubs have risked a fallout with the UK Government after failing to agree a funding deal with the English Football League (EFL) over the distribution of future broadcasting revenues.
Basketball
Events

Canada will look to show off its basketball credentials as it pursues a Women's National Basketball Association franchise, after being awarded a pre-season game for the second successive year
Finance & Law

Premier League club Chelsea FC has announced a loss of £90.1m (€105.4m/$114.9m) for the 2022-23 financial year in the first accounts published since its takeover by Todd Boehly’s Clearlake Capital investment group.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Premier League has tightened its rules on its member clubs striking inflated sponsorship and transfer deals with companies and organisations connected to their owners
Football
Governance

Major League Soccer has announced that it will send just eight of its 26 US-based first teams to compete in the 2024 US Open Cup, the United States' nationwide club competition.
Football
Governance

Multi-club ownership (MCO) in women’s football is a necessity to growing the overall quality of the game and, eventually, commercial revenues, according to two leading protagonists.
Athletics
Finance & Law

Investment conversations that continue to be held by World Athletics are with global players and are being sparked by ongoing revamps to the sport to maintain its audience engagement, according to Sebastian…
Pickleball
Governance

The leading professional pickleball organisations, the Carvana PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball by Margaritaville (MLP) have completed their merger, backed by a $75m (€69.4m) private equity investment.
Football
Media

Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, has reignited his war of words with A22 Sports Management, the backers of the proposed breakaway European Super League (ESL), claiming the organisation is attempting…
Football
Governance

Borussia Dortmund is eyeing a doubling of its sponsorship revenue emanating from the United States after opening its inaugural office in the Americas, chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke has declared
Football
Finance & Law

Current and former members of the Canada Soccer board have been hit with a C$40m ($29.6m/€27.4m) lawsuit over approving the 2018 award of a long-term media and sponsorship rights contract to Canada Soccer Business.
Rugby League
Finance & Law

Australasia's National Rugby League will find itself in its strongest-ever financial position when it comes to negotiate its next domestic media-rights deal, after reporting record revenues topping A$700m (€424m/$458m).
Football
Finance & Law

Plans for private equity investment into the German Football League (DFL) have been abandoned for the second time in nine months, with seemingly no end in sight to the fan opposition that has disrupted…
Football
Finance & Law

Mexican Liga MX champion Club América has become the first football club from Latin America to secure a stock market listing after it launched on Mexico's stock exchange yesterday (Tuesday).
Football
Finance & Law

CVC Capital Partners is the last remaining private equity firm in the running to become the strategic partner of the German Football League (DFL) in a new media company after Blackstone dropped its bid…
Ice Hockey
Governance

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Council has announced that "it is not yet safe" to reincorporate Russian and Belarusian teams back into IIHF competitions for the 2024-25 championship season