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Matchroom Boxing agrees ‘record-breaking’ DAZN switch

Matchroom Boxing has agreed a ‘record-breaking’ deal with digital sports streaming service DAZN to replace Sky Sports as the promotion company’s exclusive UK broadcast...

Club competitions make up lion’s share of UEFA revenue amid €3bn...

UEFA saw its revenues dip to €3.04 billion for 2019/20, falling by €819 million from the revenue posted for the previous year, as a...

UK women’s sport forecast for £1bn revenue generation by 2030

Women’s sport within the UK could treble the revenue it generates and reach the £1 billion mark by 2030, new research by Two Circles...

ESL could cost Founding Clubs €2.5bn, new study finds

The European Super League’s (ESL) Founding Clubs could lose a combined brand value of €2.5 billion, a figure that could potentially rise to €4.3...

Barry Hearn entrusts Matchroom chairmanship to son Eddie upon retirement

Barry Hearn is set to step down as Chairman of Matchroom Sport, almost four decades after founding the company, he announced this morning at...

Fitzboydon: European Super League could open up a ‘football civil war’

The formation of the new European Super League (ESL) could provoke a ‘football civil war’, with UEFA no longer holding a ‘monopoly’ on the...

Sky Sports provides ‘certainty’ to fans with SPFL streaming tie-up

Sky Sports has finalised a new deal with the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) that will allow clubs to broadcast all 228 matches to...

How will the European Super League affect sponsors and rights-holders?

Alliances between top European clubs and sponsoring brands could be ‘seen as even more of a premium’ following the formation of the European Super...

Sportradar names Deirdre Bigley on Global Board of Directors

Sportradar AG has appointed marketing expert Deirdre M. Bigley to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.Having served as Bloomberg’s Chief Marketing Officer since 2014,...

SeventySix Capital installs MLS star as Co-Chairman of Athlete Venture Group

SeventySix Capital has named professional footballer and former US international Alejandro Bedoya as the Co-Chairman of the SeventySix Capital Athlete Venture Group.As part of...