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Media

Dutch football’s Eredivisie is edging closer to signing off a renewal with incumbent domestic broadcast rights-holder ESPN but in a deal spanning five seasons and not 10 as initially envisaged.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Manchester City has today (Thursday) announced that UK baby products brand Joie will become the naming-rights sponsor of the club's Academy Stadium
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Volkswagen will not sponsor next year’s Euro 2024, hosted in its home market of Germany, after deciding not to extend a deal covering Uefa’s men’s national team football competitions for ‘cost discipline’ reasons, SportBusiness can exclusively reveal.
Football
Finance & Law

777 Partners, the Miami-based investment fund reportedly in talks to buy Premier League club Everton, has launched a supporters’ bond to raise money for a new training centre at Italian club Genoa.
Football
Finance & Law

Spanish LaLiga club FC Barcelona could be forced to postpone the planned US listing of its Barça Media business after German fund Libero Football failed to meet an August deadline for a proposed €40m ($…
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Media

Details of the domestic invitation to tender for French football’s top two divisions were unveiled today (Tuesday) with league authorities hoping new five-year contract lengths and match scheduling can a…
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Premier League club Manchester United is in talks to expand its association with technology company Qualcomm to include front-of-shirt sponsorship rights
Football
Media

Indian streaming platform FanCode has secured exclusive rights to selected Asian Football Confederation competitions over the next two seasons, 2023-24 and 2024-25
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Media

Fifa+, the direct-to-consumer OTT platform of football’s global governing body, and international subscription streaming platforms Fanatiz and DAZN are among the media outlets to have picked up rights to…
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Media

RTVE has moved quickly to tie up more women’s football rights after registering record audiences during Spain’s triumphant World Cup campaign.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

German beer company Bitburger has signed as an ‘Official National Partner’ of Euro 2024 – making the Bitburg-based brand the exclusive beer in all stadiums at the tournament. T
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Events

James Johnson, chief executive of Football Australia, has called for a review of the venues chosen to host football matches at the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games amid an anticipated spike in interest following the recent Fifa Women’s World Cup, which the country co-hosted alongside New Zealand.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Inter Milan is poised to agree a back-of-shirt sponsorship deal with safety shoe and workwear company U-Power, filling the last piece of available inventory on its shirt
Football
Industry Moves

Luis Rodriguez, the former IMG football executive in the Americas, has left his role as head of global partnership sales at Fifa to return home to Mexico
Football
Governance

Luis Rubiales has finally bowed to pressure and quit as president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) three weeks after his behaviour at the Women's World Cup final led to worldwide condemnation
Football
Media

There will only be two packages on offer in the domestic media rights tender being launched by France’s Professional Football League (LFP) next week, it has emerged.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

SSC Napoli has agreed a two-year sponsorship deal with Rollbit, marking the first ever sports sponsorship deal agreed by the emerging crypto casino and exchange
Football
Media

Media group Viacom18 has acquired exclusive rights to the Indian Super League, following the first-ever tender launched by the country’s top-tier football competition.