Rugby Union

Octavian Morariu has won an emphatic victory in the election for Rugby Europe president, beating Kirill Yashenkov to secure a third and final four-year term from 2020-2024

Brett Gosper, chief executive of World Rugby since 2012, is leaving the organisation to become the National Football League’s head of Europe and UK.

Irish Pro14 rugby union club Munster has announced that Musgrave Park will revert to its original name after a mutual agreement was reached to bring an early end to a stadium naming rights deal with Independent…

The women’s Rugby World Cup in 2025 will be the first to feature 16 teams, World Rugby has announced, as it continues its push to develop the women’s game internationally.

The Kenyan Rugby Union has agreed a new five-year domestic rights deal with media group Mediamax Networks, boosting national coverage

An invitation to tender has been issued for official ball suppliers to the final stages of French rugby union’s Top 14 and Pro D2.

World Rugby is changing the way it awards the men’s and women’s Rugby World Cups in an attempt to make the process more transparent and bring it in line with host selection best-practice.

France's National Rugby League (LNR) is the latest French sports rights-holder to sign up supermarket chain Intermarché to a sponsorship deal.

Australian commercial broadcaster Nine Entertainment has recruited Murray Shaw, an experienced sports production executive in Australia, as its head of rugby

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport is to broadcast all Premiership Rugby matches played behind closed doors this season and will offer free access to club season ticket holders until at least the end…

The French Rugby Federation (FFR) has renewed with long-term sponsor, transport provider RATP Group

Rugby Europe, the administrative body for rugby union in Europe, has hired the River Media Partners and Sports Media Venture agencies to develop its media and sponsorship rights revenues

Six Nations Rugby has named the Welsh Rugby Union’s Craig Maxwell as its chief commercial officer in a role that will begin at the start of next year.

Rugby Australia and New Zealand Rugby have confirmed that a trans-Tasman Super Rugby competition will take place 2021

The Famous Grouse, the blended Scotch whisky brand, has completed a trio of rugby union sponsorship agreements

Six Nations Rugby, the organising body of the annual national team tournament, will restart its sales process in late January for broadcast rights in the UK to the Six Nations and Autumn Internationals,…

A 10-team, six-week trans-Tasman Super Rugby tournament next year is set to be approved by Rugby Australia and New Zealand Rugby, according to media reports

Leading recovery and performance technology company Hyperice is expanding its global reach by announcing a multiyear partnership with the All Blacks, New Zealand's iconic national men's rugby union team