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The Saran Media agency has suffered mixed fortunes in Turkey over the last fortnight, securing rights to England’s Premier League but losing out on Euro 2016 to Turkish state broadcaster TRT.

TV Media Sport added football’s European Championship to its free-to-air portfolio in sub-Saharan Africa, securing a buyout deal with Uefa.

After protracted negotiations over a UK deal for Euro 2016 and 2020, Uefa last week signed off on a valuable deal with long-term partners the BBC and ITV.

The CAA Eleven agency has launched a tender in Russia for rights to the European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2020 and 2022 Fifa World Cup national team tournaments, the 2018-19 and 2020-21 Nations League competitions and other international matches.

The CAA Eleven agency has opened a number of tenders in Singapore and Taiwan for media rights to football properties of European governing body Uefa, including the new Nations League tournament.

The European Broadcasting Union signed off a deal for the Euro 2016 tournament in 26 territories late last month in a contract worth considerably less than its deal for Euro 2012.

BeIN Sports and Abu Dhabi Media are bidding head-to-head for two major football properties in the Middle East and North Africa – England’s Premier League and Uefa’s European Qualifiers.

Europe’s top six national football associations – England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain – have agreed a new system with Uefa for sharing revenues from centrally-sold national team matches, from the 2018-19 season.

Finnish telecommunications company Elisa has acquired rights for the Uefa European qualifiers rights and the governing body’s 2015 U-21 European Championships.

The European Broadcasting Union is in advanced stages of negotiations with Uefa over a deal for Euro 2016 football rights in 27 territories, TV Sports Markets understands.

European football’s governing body Uefa has announced the invitation to tender process for media rights to two editions of its European Championship national team competition will be launched in Italy and Germany next week.

Uefa is understood to be close to a breakthrough in Russia for the rights to its European Qualifiers but still faces big challenges in Germany, where third-party rights remain unsold, and Singapore, where it has not sold any rights.

MP & Silva has paid a significant increase for the rights in Japan to Euro 2016 in a deal finalised last month. The agency now faces a challenge to turn a profit on the deal.

The Team Marketing and CAA Eleven agencies have launched a host of tenders for the Uefa Champions League, Super Cup and 2015 European Under-21 Championship football competitions.

Uefa has extended the remit of its exclusive marketing agency for the sale of certain media and commercial rights relating to its national team football competitions, CAA Eleven, to include its new Nations League tournament.

European football’s governing body Uefa has reached an agreement with public-service broadcaster Česká Televize for the broadcasting rights to its 2015 European Under-21 Championship in host nation the Czech Republic.

The CAA Eleven agency is to launch an invitation to tender this week for the media rights in the UK to the Uefa Euro 2016 and Euro 2020 national team football tournaments.

The CAA Eleven agency is to launch an invitation to tender next week for the media rights in various European countries to the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament.