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Fifa president Gianni Infantino has said world football’s governing body has received nine offers in response to a tender launched for the commercial rights to the revamped Club World Cup tournament.
Attendance Motor Racing

Formula 1 has announced record attendance figures for its 2019 season, with Silverstone’s British Grand Prix emerging on top for both weekend and race day attendances.
Events Women's Ice Hockey

The National Women's Hockey League has announced that the 2020 All-Star Weekend will be held at Warrior Ice Arena in Boston on February 8-9
Media Tennis

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has continued its rights acquisition drive by agreeing a deal for the new ATP Cup national team tournament
Events Multi-Sport

The organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are predicting that the Games will cost ¥1.35tn ($12.6bn/£9.5
Industry Moves Tennis

Discovery-owned international sports broadcaster Eurosport has secured rights to Wimbledon in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for the first time as part of a new deal encompassing 11 European markets
Events Football

Lega Serie A, the body that oversees Italian football’s top-tier Serie A, is contemplating the expansion of its Supercoppa tournament to a four-team ‘Final Four’ competition, it is claimed. A
Events Football

The International Champions Cup is poised to have a reduced format in 2020 due to the presence of an expanded 24-team European Championship and the 12-team Copa America next summer.
Events Esports

The International Esports Federation (IESF) has elected its new board, which will comprise six members from six different nations

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Why Fifa has chosen to host the 2021 Club World Cup in China, and how the competition is a step forward towards China's football ambitions. Zhang Dan reports.
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Governance

When Velon announced that it had filed an anti-trust case with the European Commission against the UCI, in September, it exposed a fault line that had long been threatening to send shockwaves through cycling. Adam Nelson speaks with the organisation's chief executive, Graham Bartlett, about the implications of the case for the sport.
Ice Hockey
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Four years after National Football League team owner Stan Kroenke relocated the St. Louis Rams to Los Angeles amid bitter acrimony, the Missouri city has firmly regained its civic pride and status as a major league sports town in the United States.
Olympic Games
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In the third of a trilogy of interviews with the Tokyo 2020 organising committee, SportBusiness speaks to Hideyo Hirata, head of the innovation promotion office and deputy executive director of technology services.
Events Sailing

The Ocean Race has announced it will stop in the Chinese city of Shenzhen during its 2021-22 season
Events Basketball

The Euroleague Basketball governing body has revealed details of its 2020 Fan XP Innovation Challenge and engaged the 4YFN startup event to work on the recruitment and reviewing of applicant startups for…
Events Football

The All India Football Federation's Super Cup, which for the past two years has pitted I-League teams against Indian Super League teams, has been paused as part of the wider overhaul of the country's …
Events

Philippine Olympic Committee president Abraham Tolentino has said the country will be bidding to host the 2030 Asian Games, one of the biggest multi-sport events in the world
Events Sailing

SailGP has today (Tuesday) announced that Spain will replace China in the second season of the sailing series, stating that it was unable to secure the “permissions necessary” to continue operating the…
Events Baseball

Major League Baseball’s (MLB’s) first-ever regular season games in Europe granted London an economic boost worth nearly £37m (€43.6m/$48.7m), according to the findings of a new report. Th
Events Rugby Union

World Rugby has today (Tuesday) unveiled a new competition designed to encourage the further development of the sport’s sevens format, with the first events to take place in Chile and Uruguay.
Sponsorship & Marketing Handball

Online gambling operator Kindred Group has agreed a deal with the Infront agency for its Unibet brand to sponsor the European Handball Federation’s men’s and women’s European Championships next year. T
Events Rugby Union

European Professional Club Rugby is hoping to push through a significant revamp of the Champions Cup, the top-tier of European competition for European club rugby union, according to reports
Events Rugby Union

The Russian Rugby Federation (RRF) has said it plans to submit a bid for the 2027 Rugby World Cup, irrespective of sanctions set to be placed on the country with regards the hosting of major sporting events
Events Golf

The Malaysian Open will return to the Asian Tour in 2020, after a four year hiatus
Events Football

The football federations of Australia and New Zealand have published details of their bid to host the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup, including a promise of a record total attendance of 1.5 million
Media Equestrian

Equestrian series Event Rider Masters has appointed sports production and media company Sunset+Vine as its global television distribution partner
Events Cycling

Scotland’s national tourist board VisitScotland is seeking to recruit a chief executive and four independent board members to help deliver and oversee the inaugural UCI Cycling World Championships to b…
Stadia Multi-Sport

Tokyo's new Olympic Stadium was officially unveiled on Sunday with a media tour and ceremony attended by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike, and the venue's architect Kengo…
Events Football

Japan, Colombia, Brazil and a joint Australia-New Zealand bid are the four contenders to  host the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup, following the close of the bid deadline last Friday.
Sponsorship & Marketing Motorsport

Tyre manufacturer Goodyear has been unveiled as a premium partner of the World Endurance Championship as part of a wider agreement involving the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) and the European Le Mans S…
Events Esports

The European Tour has announced that it is set to launch golf’s first esports series, the European eTour, in partnership with esports events organiser DreamHack and games developer Topgolf Entertainment G…
Events Football

The South African Football Federation has announced that it will not be continuing with its bid to host the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup.
Media Esports

US media company Turner Sports’ ELeague esports property has agreed a wide-ranging tournament and content distribution deal with Electronic Arts focusing on the games developer’s Fifa 20 football title.
Events Football

The United States Soccer Federation has announced a series of revamps to the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup, including a significantly earlier start to the domestic knockout tournament, and an earlier entrance …
Events Golf

Saudi Arabia is hosting its first ever women's golf tournament in March next year, under an agreement between the Ladies European Tour, Golf Saudi and the Saudi Golf Federation
Events Tennis

David Haggerty, the International Tennis Federation president, has hailed the revamped Davis Cup, but admits that some scheduling changes need to be made next year.
Events Surfing

Paris 2024 has today (Thursday) confirmed that the Polynesian island of Tahiti will host surfing events during its summer Olympic Games, subject to formal approval from the International Olympic Committee…