Football

Sport TV has challenged Portuguese public broadcaster RTP over its use of highlights clips from Primeira Liga and Serie A matches in complaints made to the Portuguese media watchdog.

BeIN Sports secured Uefa club competition rights in all its active Asian markets at a slight decrease on its previous deal, despite the addition of Indonesia in the new agreement.

Relevent Sports has strengthened its commercial grip on football across the Americas through an unprecedented 17-year, multi-faceted deal with the German Football League (DFL).

Esports, gaming and media company Galaxy Racer (GXR) has announced that it has secured broadcast rights to three of Europe’s top football leagues on the Indian subcontinent in deals ranging from four to six seasons.

Serie A’s rights fee with TNT Sports in the UK has been reduced by roughly half, but Italy’s top-tier league is looking to bridge the revenue gap as much as it can with a pay-per-view agreement with OneFootball.

Pluto TV, the free, ad-supported streaming service owned by Paramount Global, has struck a multi-faceted global commercial agreement with Borussia Dortmund, which includes shirt branding and a dedicated TV channel.

Pay-television operator Canal Plus has struck a late rights deal with ORF, Austria's public-service broadcaster, ahead of its debut coverage of the Uefa club competitions in the country

Fifa has taken media rights for the 2026 Fifa World Cup to market in Cambodia, Taiwan and Vietnam, continuing its in-house sale of rights in the Asia-Pacific region

The South African Premiership will remain on free-to-air television during the 2024-25 season after a late sublicensing deal was struck between rights-holder SuperSport and public broadcaster the SABC.

The Premier League’s ability to secure an uplift in its renewal with beIN for its rights in Mena underlines its importance as a driver of beIN’s subscription-based television business.

The increase was driven by continued bullishness around the growth of sports betting in the US and beyond, but also by aggregators jostling for position in a highly competitive market.

England’s Football Association is looking to move swiftly to land a new domestic broadcast deal for England’s women’s international qualifiers and friendlies after issuing a tender, SportBusiness under…

The hazards of private equity investment in football was a strong theme at this year’s IMG x RedBird Summit with Lorin Parys, the Belgian Pro League CEO, issuing a warning over the associated payouts.

BG Sports, an arm of the Boonrawd Group conglomerate in Thailand, has acquired a package of Asian Football Confederation (AFC) media rights from 2024 to 2029

Public broadcaster NOS will remain the major football tournament home in the Netherlands until at least 2030 after landing rights to the next two men's Fifa World Cups.

The newly branded Ninja A-League will benefit from at least 10 free-to-air matches in 2024-25 as part of its naming rights deal.