Football

The Uefa Europa League final will be shown by Italian public broadcaster Rai, after Atalanta’s semi-final win against Olympique Marseille triggered a ruling that provides free-to-air exposure for the match should an Italian team be involved.

Globo’s renegotiated deal for rights to the 2026 Fifa World Cup has given Fifa hope of extracting even more from Brazil than it otherwise would have done, as its sales agent LiveMode prepares to take an additional premium package of rights to the market.

Streaming service U-Next is close to finalising a deal for exclusive media rights to the Premier League and FA Cup in Japan, SportBusiness understands

The dream of a unified, centralised Brasileirão will have to wait until 2030 at the earliest as years of public pettiness between clubs, meetings about meetings and arguments over small amounts of money have resulted in another resounding victory for Brazil’s biggest media group, Globo.

A national backlash against a government move to take matches of the Argentinian national football team off state television has prompted sub-licensing negotiations between broadcast executives.

E-commerce company Coupang is close to sealing a deal for Premier League and FA Cup rights in South Korea, SportBusiness understands, marking the first time that media rights to the two properties have…

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has announced its first international rights deal since launching a tender over six months ago, an 18-territory pact with Saran Media covering Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Pay-television broadcaster Nova Sport has secured first-pick rights in the Czech Republic to the Uefa Europa League and Conference League over the next three seasons, 2024-25 to 2026-27, completing the…

Northern Ireland's Women's Premiership has been added to the growing free football coverage on DAZN in an historic partnership unveiled today (Wednesday)

Wowow, the pay-television broadcaster in Japan, has retained exclusive media rights to Uefa club competitions in the country for the 2024-27 cycle

JTBC has secured exclusive rights in South Korea to the 2026 and 2030 Fifa World Cups, SportBusiness understands, in what was a competitive process in one of the world’s hottest sports media rights markets.

Dutch football’s Eredivisie is looking for an agency or agencies to represent its international broadcast and betting video rights, a property held for 24 years by IMG.

Fifa has turned to the Balkans in its media rights sales process for the next two men's World Cups, launching invitations to tender (ITTs) in eight countries.

Pitch International and Relevent Sports Group outbid their agency rivals to land English Football League international rights from 2024-25 to 2027-28, with their respective strengths in two particular regions – Mena and the US – key to the final result.

Televisión Federal (Telefe), the Argentinian television station owned by Paramount Global, has acquired rights to matches of the men's national football team after the country's radical leader, Javier Milei, put an end to the use of public funds.