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In Focus: Uefa club competitions
SportBusiness Media takes a deep dive into the numbers driving Uefa club competitions' commercial success.
Uefa goes to market in Ireland with club competition rights
Broadcast rights are on the market in the Republic of Ireland for Uefa club competitions in the 2024-27 cycle
RTL lands Champions League rights in Hungary for first time
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 fee rockets in Uefa club competitions renewal
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’s Champions League semi-final win nets record Italian audience
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.
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United Media nets Uefa club rights in Slovenia
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
Uefa club competitions media rights tenders issued in Spain
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.
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Uefa eyes 33-per-cent uplift in club competition revenue from 2024
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
Stan remains home of Uefa club competitions in Nine renewal
Media group Nine Entertainment has renewed its exclusive rights in Australia to Uefa club competitions for a further three seasons after striking a new deal with European football’s governing body through t…
Sky Italia finalises Uefa club competitions rights swoop
Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has retained its rights to Uefa club football competitions through a three-season extension that will take in the new era of the Uefa Champions League
TV8 lands rights to all-Milan Champions League clash
TV8, the free-to-air channel of pay-TV broadcaster Sky Italia, has secured rights to the all-Milan Uefa Champions League semi-final first leg
Amazon in free-to-air talks over all-Milan Champions League tie
Online retail giant Amazon must sublicense rights to the first leg of the eagerly-anticipated Milan Derby in the Uefa Champions League semi-final, after it was ruled the match must be shown in Italy on…
Ceferin hints at future Champions League final in the US
Uefa President Aleksander Ceferin has opened the door to the possibility of hosting the Uefa Champions League final in the United States in the future
Hungary next up for Uefa club competition media rights auction
The sales process for broadcast rights in Hungary to Uefa club competitions across the 2024-27 cycle has started today (Monday)
Team takes Uefa club competition rights to market in Malta
Team Marketing has gone to market with the rights in Malta to the Uefa Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League for the 2024-25 to 2026-27 cycle
SRG sparks debate after paying up for Uefa club competition rights
Public-service broadcaster SRG SSR has kicked off a debate in Switzerland over the role of licence fee-funded media after outmuscling its commercial rivals to recapture free-to-air rights to Uefa club competitions.
Norway’s TV2 accuses Viaplay of ‘repeated’ unlicensed Champions League broadcasts
Multi-platform subscription broadcaster Viaplay is investigating claims it has repeatedly broadcast Uefa Champions League matches in Norway without holding rights to the competition in the market.
Brazil and Latin America next up for Uefa club competition rights sales
Broadcasters in Brazil and the rest of Latin America must lodge their Uefa club competition rights bids later this month, SportBusiness understands