Rugby Union

Rugby Union
Licensing & Merchandising

Major League Rugby side Glendale Raptors has rebranded itself as the Colorado Raptors. The refresh includes a change of logo as well as team name.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Specialist rugby brand Canterbury has renewed its Official Apparel Partner deal with the British & Irish Lions for the Tour of South Africa in 2021
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Media

Discovery-owned Eurosport is in talks with pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus to sublicense some of the latter’s rights to the Pro D2, France’s second-tier rugby union club competition, SportBusiness Med…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

German financial services company Allianz, the main sponsor of Saracens, has said it will hold talks with the English Premiership rugby union club after it opted not to contest heavy sanctions imposed…
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Events

Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners is set to increase its interest in European rugby union after agreeing a deal in principle to acquire a 27-per-cent stake in cross-border league the Pro14
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Fiji’s national airline, Fiji Airways, has extended and upgraded its shirt sponsorship deal with New Zealand Super Rugby franchise the Crusaders, with financial services group BNZ to downgrade its partnership w…
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Events

Global Rapid Rugby, a new club competition incorporating former Super Rugby franchise Western Force, has today (Thursday) revealed plans for its debut season with teams representing Fiji, Samoa, Hong Kong…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

English Premiership rugby union club Wasps has signed a shirt sponsorship deal with CWA, a Birmingham-based civil and structural engineering company
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The CSM Sport & Entertainment agency has been appointed by both SA Rugby and the British & Irish Lions as their official sponsorship agency to exclusively manage all sponsorship rights for the Lions 2021…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

South African telecoms operator MTN is set to renew its headline sponsorship of the Springboks, South Africa’s world championship-winning rugby union team.
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Fan Engagement

iX.co, the digital subsidiary of sports marketing company Infront, has been appointed by the French Rugby League (LNR) as a digital consultancy partner to help drive its global fan engagement push
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Media

Highlights from rugby union’s Pro14 will return to public-service television in the UK after the BBC struck a deal to show an hour-long programme on Sunday and Monday evenings.
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Industry Moves

Six Nations Rugby has named Rupert Hunter as its new chief commercial advisor, replacing Dave Kavanagh
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Italian sportswear brand Kappa has agreed a deal to become the official technical apparel partner of the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup club rugby union competitions
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Media

Welsh public-service channel S4C has struck a deal to show live coverage from this season’s Challenge Cup club rugby union competition.
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Governance

Premiership Rugby has today (Tuesday) handed Saracens a 35-point deduction and a fine in excess of £5m (€5.8m/$6.45
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Events

World Rugby has announced it will return to a dual award strategy for the hosting rights to the 2027 and 2031 World Cups, with a similar approach of pairing established and emerging rugby nations likely…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The England rugby union team will be kitted out by UK-based sports brand Umbro from September 2020 – despite especially strong sales for the incumbent kit supplier Canterbury in the last week of the R…