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The ubiquity of streaming and the rise of WFH lifestyles has turned the Uefa Champions League’s daytime window in the US into a blessing, helping Relevent Sports Group more than double its media rights value from 2024-25 onward.

Fresh off the back of retaining Danish Superliga rights, Viaplay has set its sights on keeping the Uefa Champions League on its screens in Denmark as it plots a path back to profitability

Chinese media group Shinai Sports has announced an exclusive digital rights deal for Uefa club competitions for the 2023-24 season, bolstering its portfolio of top-tier football properties

LaLiga’s channel for public establishments, LaLiga TV Bar, has acquired exclusive hospitality rights for Uefa club competitions from 2024-25 to 2026-27, beefing up its content offering and supplementing t…

Team Marketing is set to expand its sports client base for the first time in its 31-year history as it nears an agreement to become the Swiss Football League’s global commercial rights sales agent, sources have told SportBusiness Media.

Spanish telecoms operator Telefónica has renewed its exclusive Uefa club competition rights for a further three seasons, achieving a slight reduction in the overall cost.

Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are in line to renew their Uefa Champions League rights deals across Latin America and Brazil, respectively, SportBusiness understands

Warner Bros Discovery is set to acquire exclusive rights to the Uefa Champions League in Brazil for the upcoming three-season cycle, agreeing to pay an uplift should its deal in principle be finalised as expected.

Sky Italia doubled its fee for Uefa Champions League rights to ensure it held Uefa club competition rights in the next cycle, putting it in a strong position ahead of the current Serie A domestic media rights sales process.

Saturday evening’s Uefa Champions League final registered the highest free-to-air audience in Italy since 2017 as Inter Milan lost out to Manchester City.

SportBusiness Media takes a deep dive into the numbers driving Uefa club competitions' commercial success.

Broadcast rights are on the market in the Republic of Ireland for Uefa club competitions in the 2024-27 cycle

Commercial broadcaster RTL has acquired rights in Hungary to the Uefa Champions League while retaining its rights in the country to the Europa League and Europa Conference League

Nine Entertainment, parent company of Stan Sport, renewed its rights in Australia to Uefa club competitions for a further three seasons after agreeing to pay a substantial uplift on the current fee.

Inter Milan’s victory over city rivals AC Milan in last night’s Uefa Champions League semi-final second leg generated Italy’s highest free-to-air audience of the season for a club football match. M

United Media, the broadcasting group across Southeast Europe, has acquired exclusive rights in Slovenia to an extensive package of Uefa club competition rights for the new three-year cycle

Team Marketing has initiated the sales processes for future broadcast rights to Uefa club competitions in Spain, the last of Europe’s ‘big five’ countries in which the agency has gone to market. R

Giorgio Marchetti, deputy general secretary at Uefa, has revealed that the governing body’s club competition revenue is projected to rise to between €4.6bn ($5bn) and €4.8bn p