Europe

Football

The value of Uefa club competition rights has rebounded in the Netherlands due to a change in Uefa’s coefficient ranking system that will guarantee at least one Dutch club’s automatic qualification to the Champions League from 2021-22.
Football

The Portuguese Primeira Liga is one of only two European football leagues that hasn't centralised its media rights. A government-backed plan to change that is in motion, but will Portugal's big three play along?
Skiing

The Infront agency is working with broadcast services company Euro Media Group on a full network-based set-up for the International Ski Federation’s (FIS) forthcoming Nordic World Ski Championships, w…
Football

LaLiga is the latest European football league to make gains in Poland, seeing the value of its rights in the country rise by nearly a third in a five-season renewal with Eleven Sports.
Football

An OTT streaming platform, supported by associated social media accounts, has been launched to showcase content from Brazil’s top-tier Brasileirão as part of the exposure plans put in place by Global Sp…
Football

The Turkish Football Federation will issue a domestic media rights invitation to tender for the Turkish Süper Lig before the end of 2021, the body’s president Nihat Özdemir has announced at a league web…
Football

Europe’s leading football leagues are set to face a period of “correction” in the value of their broadcast rights, according to Simon Green, managing director of BT Sport. T
Canoeing

The International Canoe Federation has renewed ties with Eurovision Sport, the sports arm of the European Broadcasting Union, in a rights contract running from 2021 to 2024
Motorsport

German free-to-air commercial broadcaster RTL will broadcast four Formula 1 races in 2021 following a reported sublicensing agreement with pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland
Football

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has vastly expanded its inventory of Uefa Champions League matches for the 2021-24 cycle after acquiring non-exclusive streaming rights to 104 matches per season
Football

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters has said the proposed ‘Super League’ competition would be “destructive to the value” of European football, adding that potential reform of the Uefa Champio…
Judo

International broadcaster Eurosport has acquired pay-television rights in France to a number of International Judo Federation events in the run-up to this year’s rescheduled Olympic Games.
Wrestling

Baltic media group TV3 has agreed a ‘multi-year’ rights deal with World Wresting Entertainment.
Football

Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has successfully driven down its fee for Uefa’s lower-tier club competition rights in a three-season renewal. The motivation was, in large part, its inability to acquire exclusive streaming rights under the new rules from Italy’s antitrust authority.
Football

The English Premier League will continue to make all its matches in the 2020-21 season available for broadcast in the UK until supporters are permitted back into stadiums
Football

A delegation of officials from French football clubs and France’s Professional Football League (LFP) have suggested to the country’s government that legislation should be amended so that the duration of …
Rugby Union

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby has begun a search for a head of broadcast rights and content.
Esports

The Sportfive agency has teamed up with video game developer Riot Games and esports agency Freaks 4U Gaming on the commercialisation of the Valorant Champions Tour esports series