Rugby Union

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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…
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Events

ITV, the UK free-to-air commercial broadcaster, claimed the most-watched television moment of the year for England’s 32-12 defeat to South Africa in Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

World Rugby has re-appointed IMG as its exclusive commercial partner agency for the next Rugby World Cup cycle through to the 2023 tournament in France
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Media

TF1, the French free-to-air commercial broadcaster, expects to lose over €1m ($1.1m) from the cancellation of three matches at the Rugby World Cup in Japan because of Typhoon Hagibis.
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Media

The Italian Rugby Federation (FIR) has reached an agreement with social media platform Facebook to stream coverage of the Top12, the top tier of the club game in the country
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Media

South African public-service broadcaster the SABC has agreed a sublicensing deal with pay-television broadcaster SuperSport that ensures Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final between South Africa and England r…
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Events

World Rugby has awarded hosting rights for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens to South Africa, with Cape Town’s staging of the event to mark its first edition on the continent.
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Events

The 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan had 1,024,000 visitors to its 16 fanzones up to and including Saturday's semi-final between New Zealand and England, beating the 1 million record set at the 2015 tournament
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Sponsorship & Marketing

The Sharks, the Durban-based Super Rugby franchise, has unveiled South African sports betting operator Hollywoodbets as a new associate sponsor. The deal will run for three years, from 2020 to 2022.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Rugby Union team Wasps has signed up environmental and engineering firm RSK to its portfolio