Saudi withdrawal means African Football League begins from standing start
The Confederation of African Football has opted for a slimmed-down, eight-team version of the African Football League after expected funding from the Saudi Arabian Football Federation failed to materialise.
US hosting key to Fifa’s $2bn revenue target for 2025 Club World Cup
Fifa is targeting commercial revenues of $1.5bn to $2bn from the expanded, 32-team Club World Cup in 2025, with media rights expected to account for about half of that.
Pitch and Two Circles help ITF with post-Kosmos Davis Cup, but long-term picture is unclear
The ITF has appointed Pitch International and Two Circles to handle any as-yet unsold commercial rights to this year’s Davis Cup, as the fallout from the terminated Kosmos deal continues.
IMG faces competition as Saudi Pro League expands search for global rights partner
The Saudi Pro League has approached a small number of sports marketing agencies and asked them to bid for a one-year contract to distribute its international rights, SportBusiness Media understands.
Serie A fishing for clues with eight-model domestic rights tender
Lega Serie A’s invitation to tender for domestic live media rights from the 2024-25 season contains multiple innovations as it aims to hit its minimum target of €1bn per season.
Sport does not know the origin of its private equity money, SportBusiness report suggests
Sports rights-holders often have little to no idea about the origin of the money they are accepting from private equity funds, a new 90-page SportBusiness report has found.
DAZN outbids Bruin for NFL Game Pass in bold global play
DAZN is thought to have bid significantly higher than incumbent OverTier for global distribution rights to Game Pass, though the NFL says user experience, tech, footprint and marketing were decisive factors.
De Siervo: New piracy law could add extra €150m per season for Serie A
In an exclusive interview with SportBusiness, Serie A chief executive Luigi De Siervo says his league “will finally get what we deserve from the market” in the league’s next media rights cycle from 2024-25 onwards.
NFL deal helps Google park tanks on traditional pay-TV’s lawn
For YouTube, as a sports content platform, the deal represents a dramatic acceleration of its ambitions in pay-television in the US.
Will Denmark’s Superliga tender end Europe’s ‘no-single-buyer’ rule?
The Danish Competition Council’s suspension of the no-single-buyer rule for the next round of Superliga football rights may point to a further relaxation of regulation around the sale of premium sports content across Europe, as media markets are transformed by the explosion of streaming.