Rugby Union

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Sponsorship & Marketing

French industrial services company Altrad has strengthened its rugby union presence by becoming a sponsor of this year’s women’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
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Media

Premiership Rugby’s new global live streaming service will offer matches filmed using an eight-camera high-definition production as the league rolls out its direct-to-consumer strategy that it believes c…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Rugby union franchise Moana Pasifika has announced a sponsorship deal with non-profit organisation Earth X
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Industry Moves

Rugby Australia has appointed James Durbin as its new chief commercial officer, while Marissa Pace has also joined the governing body as chief marketing officer
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Events

The Bledisloe Cup, the annual rugby union competition contested by Australia and New Zealand, has been reduced from three fixtures to two
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Industry Moves

World Rugby has appointed Sally Horrox as its director of women’s rugby. Horrox will join the governing body in early May to oversee its Women in Rugby plan, which runs from 2017 to 2025.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Wearable sports tech company STATSports has completed a three-year deal with New Zealand Rugby to become the official high-performance supplier of the All Blacks until 2024
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Australian rugby league franchise Wests Tigers has announced a four-year sponsorship agreement with Sydney-based betting and online gaming brand PlayUp
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Stadia

The French Rugby Federation (FFR) has been ordered to pay €150,000 ($170,000) in compensation to the contractor for its aborted ‘Grand Stade’ project, but has avoided a significantly greater financial penal…
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Media

Sanzaar remains confident of agreeing a broadcast rights deal in the United Kingdom for international fixtures despite being unable to secure an agreement for the inaugural Super Rugby Pacific season
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Media

Streaming platform Eleven Italy has acquired rights to the men’s Top10 and women’s Serie A, the top tiers of domestic club rugby union in Italy.
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Events

The United States is now in contention for the 2033 Women's Rugby World Cup, as well as the 2029 event. The news was disclosed by World Rugby chief executive Alan Gilpin in an interview with SportBusiness
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Finance & Law

Outside investment enabling ‘mature dialogue’ about global calendar Governing body unlikely to agree to a ‘whole-of-sport’ PE deal like FIVB Women
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Finance & Law

New Zealand Rugby and the New Zealand players’ union have agreed to an initial NZ$200m ($134.1m/€177.9m) investment in NZR’s commercial rights by US-based private equity company Silver Lake Partners. T
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Media

Premiership Rugby, the top tier of English club rugby union, is launching a new streaming service that will allow fans to watch live coverage of every match not already shown by domestic rights-holders
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Events

Southern hemisphere rugby union alliance Sanzaar has announced that South Africa will continue to play in its annual Rugby Championship tournament until at least 2025
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Media

Sanzaar, the southern hemisphere rugby union alliance, will stream live coverage of the inaugural Super Rugby Pacific season in territories that do not have broadcast rights agreements in place
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Events

The British and Irish Lions has appointed London-based sports marketing agency Two Circles to study whether a women’s Lions team is feasible.