Rugby Union

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Events

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) Council has cast a “strong majority vote” in favour of no relegation from the Premiership or the second-tier Championship for the 2020-21 season, with further talks over lea…
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Media

The Rugby Football Union is actively seeking a domestic broadcaster for the top-tier women’s Premier 15s league.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

England Rugby has signed an extension to its sponsorship contract with Unilever’s skincare brand Dove Men+Care.
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Media

Premiership Rugby’s plan to halt relegation and grow its league to 13 clubs next season has been put on hold due to opposition from pay-television broadcaster BT Sport, its domestic broadcast rights-holder.
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Media

Scotland’s win over defending champions England during the opening weekend of rugby union’s 2021 Six Nations was watched by a peak audience of 8.7 m
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Governance

Australia's Rugby Union Players Association have agreed to significant pay cuts for the national team after agreeing to a Covid-19-enforced extension to an amended collective bargaining agreement running…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The Romanian Rugby Union has signed up sportswear firm Macron as its new kit supplier. The deal commences immediately and will run until the end of the 2022-23 season
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Finance & Law

New Zealand Rugby has received a NZ$465m ($335m/€279m) offer from US-based private equity firm Silver Lake, for a 15-per-cent share in its commercial rights arm, it has been reported.
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Events

The four 'home unions' in the UK and Ireland are contemplating a joint bid for the 2031 Men’s Rugby World Cup after World Rugby launched the host selection process for both the 2027 and 2031 tournaments.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

World Rugby and its global master licensee IMG will launch the consultation process to select a global sports apparel supplier for all competitions during the 2021 to 2024 period this month
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Sponsorship & Marketing

A new sports marketing agency, Global Sports Media, has been launched in London by former Sportseen LLP sales director Robert Dyan
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Events

Rugby Australia has offered to host the British & Irish Lions’ tour to South Africa, with a view to bolstering its bid to stage the 2027 Rugby World Cup.
Football
Industry Moves

Scottish Rugby’s chief operating officer Dominic McKay is to become chief executive at Scottish Premiership side Celtic as Peter Lawwell, the long-standing incumbent, leaves the role.
Rugby Union
Industry Moves

Southern Hemisphere rugby union alliance Sanzaar has appointed chief operating officer Brendan Morris as its new CEO, and named Argentina’s Marcelo Rodriguez as its executive committee chairman.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Six Nations Rugby has conceded that this year’s postponed edition of the women’s tournament has yet to secure a new title sponsor, while adding that talks continue over a permanent move to a new calendar slo…
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Media

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) has introduced more stringent financial guarantee measures and altered the payment schedule in its recently-launched domestic rights tender in the wake of the c…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Premiership Rugby has appointed the Turnstile valuation agency to work alongside the league’s commercial team to value its sponsorship offerings as part of a broader review of its commercial programme.
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Media

The executive board of France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) has approved the issuing of a domestic broadcast rights auction for the top-tier Top 14 in a sales process launched in the same week as t…