Rugby Union

Women’s tennis, cricket, rugby and football will provide powerful sponsorship platforms for brands in the Asia-Pacific region in coming years, argues Martini Ip, account director, CSM Sport & Entertainment, Hong Kong

The Australia-New Zealand Super Rugby tournament this year looks set to go ahead following the New Zealand government's announcement of a travel bubble between the two countries starting April 19

English Premiership Rugby club Wasps has extended its main shirt sponsorship deal with telecommunications company Vodafone until the end of the 2023-24 season

The Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) has signed up automotive retailer, the Peter Vardy Group, as its new front-of-shirt sponsor for the Scotland national team while renewing and realigning its sponsorship deal…

Telco BT has secured domestic rights to the climax of this season’s top-tier English women’s Premier 15s rugby union competition, SportBusiness understands.

French construction services company Altrad is interested in acquiring the main jersey rights to the New Zealand All Blacks rugby union team, according to French media reports

European Professional Club Rugby has again removed its Champions Cup and Challenge Cup finals from Marseille amid the worsening Covid-19 situation in France

The British & Irish Lions have announced a product licensing partnership with mouthguard manufacturer Opro. The deal, which was brokered by The Point

New Zealand Rugby's chief executive Mark Robinson has said that he is confident a proposed private equity investment deal for the union will go ahead despite recent concerns expressed by players

An average audience of 7.6 million viewers watched the final match of this year’s Six Nations tournament between France and Scotland on French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions.

The New Zealand Rugby Players Association (NZRPA) has moved to oppose New Zealand Rugby’s proposed deal to sell a stake in the organisation to US private equity firm Silver Lake, citing concerns over p…

English Premiership rugby union clubs will receive £88m (€103.3m/$121.6m

Rugby Australia chief executive Hamish McLennan said planned private equity investment will lead to modernisation of the sport's structure in Australia, as well as shoring up its ailing finances

The Welsh Rugby Union has said that ensuring Wales’ Six Nations matches remain live on free-to-air television in the Welsh language is a “red line” in ongoing discussions over the UK broadcast rights from …

SportBusiness Europe editor Ben Cronin argues CVC's 2019 strategic partnership with Bruin Sports Capital points at how the private equity firm might seek to extract value from its new investments in volleyball and the Six Nations rugby tournament

Rugby union's world governing body is to contribute $1.65m (€1.4m) over three years to help two teams from the Pacific Islands enter the Super Rugby competition from 2022.

The British & Irish Lions’ tour of South Africa will go ahead as scheduled this summer after an agreement was reached with the South African Rugby Union.

René Bouscatel, the former president of French Top 14 club Stade Toulousain, has been elected president of France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), the rugby union body that operates the country’s Top …