Globo commits to long-term extension with Chapecoense

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A football club Chapecoense has agreed a long-term broadcast rights extension with Brazilian media group Globo.

Chapecoense’s rights deal has typically been renewed on an annual basis, but the new agreement will run until the end of 2018.

The ESPN.com.br website said the deal was agreed by former club president Sandro Pallaoro, who died in November’s plane crash in Colombia.

Nineteen of Chapecoense’s players, along with a host of club officials, were killed in November when their plane came down on a mountainside near La Unión, a small town near the Colombian city of Medellín, where the team had been travelling to face local side Atlético Nacional in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final.

According to ESPN.com.br, the new deal will see Globo increase its rights payment from BRL23m (€7m/$7.4m) per year to BRL32m per year. Chapecoense chairman Gilson Vivian said the rise is unrelated to last year’s tragedy.