Rugby Union

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Sponsorship & Marketing

The United Rugby Championship (URC) and European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) have once again bundled their commercial rights, this time via a sponsorship agreement with Qatar Airways
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The United Rugby Championship (URC) has agreed a deal for Indian tyre manufacturer BKT to become its title sponsor in the northern hemisphere
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Media

Pay-television broadcaster SuperSport has secured exclusive rights for European Professional Club Rugby competitions in South Africa and other 'key territories' in sub-Saharan Africa for three seasons,…
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Media

The United Rugby Championship, European Professional Club Rugby and France’s Top 14 have bundled their US media rights together for the first time and secured a deal with streaming service FloSports.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

French Top 14 rugby union club Stade Toulousain has agreed a two-season extension to its sponsorship deal with employment agency Actual.
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Governance

Claude Atcher has been suspended as chief executive of the local organising committee (GIP) for the 2023 Rugby World Cup following the results of a preliminary investigation into the workplace environment…
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Media

BT Sport is set to continue as the exclusive pay-television broadcaster of European Professional Club Rugby competitions in the UK and Ireland, SportBusiness understands
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Media

Subscription streaming broadcaster DAZN has acquired rights in various international markets to a package of warm-up matches for the forthcoming women’s Rugby World Cup.
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Media

Rights to the men’s Rugby World Cup have returned to Australian commercial broadcaster Nine Entertainment in a deal that also includes the forthcoming women’s Rugby World Cup.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Chemicals multinational Ineos has signed as an official sponsor of the 2021 Rugby World Cup, the women’s edition of the global rugby union showcase that was postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

World Rugby has announced Australia-based forex broker IC Markets as a global sponsor of its Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament scheduled to be held in the South African city of Cape Town next month
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Media

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports and public-service broadcaster France Télévisions are set to retain rights in France to the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup European club rugby union competitions, i…
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Licensing & Merchandising

Blockchain provider Socios.com has signed new team deals in rugby union with French Top 14 league club Stade Français and South African side The Sharks.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Retail pharmacy chain Chemist Warehouse has signed up as an official sponsor of Rugby World Cup 2021, the postponed women’s national team tournament which will now take place this year in New Zealand f…
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Events

The Hong Kong leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series will return this year for the first time since the pandemic began, after getting approval from the city-state's government, the South China Morning Post…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The French Rugby Federation (FFR) has expanded its sponsorship agreement with automotive manufacturer Renault to include its Mobilize brand
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Dubai-based airline Emirates has renewed its sponsorship deal with World Rugby, through which it serves as a worldwide partner of the men’s Rugby World Cup.
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Finance & Law

Japanese telco NTT has created a new rugby-focused business, NTT Sports X, and reorganised its two rugby union teams, renaming and putting a focus on its highest-ranked team, now called Urayasu D-Rocks