Media

Rainer Marte, an experienced rights and event management executive who has been with Infront since its creation in 2002, is to leave the Zug-based agency at the end of this year

Wanda Sports Group, the owner of the Infront agency and Ironman business, among other interests in sport, has reported a third-quarter loss of €31.2
Motorsport

Nascar president Steve Phelps has hailed the positive direction of the US stock car racing series, claiming that TV viewership is up four percent this year on domestic broadcast partners NBC and Fox.
Football

FC Diez Media, the joint venture established by the IMG agency and digital media company DAZN Group to sell rights to the Conmebol club competitions, has named Felipe Soalheiro as sponsorship sales director
Football

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) today strongly defended its move to terminate Lagardère Sports’ 12-year global media and sponsorship rights contract, describing it as a “legal consequence” of rec…

The immediate economic impact of the move by the Confederation of African Football to cancel its global media and sponsorship rights agreement with the Lagardère Sports agency was today outlined by Lagardère, a…

Professional services group PwC has released its annual Sports Outlook report, which forecasts that the North American sports market will grow at a compound annual rate of 3.2 per cent, from $71.1bn (€64.2
Football

Lagardère, the France-based conglomerate, has said it will contest the Confederation of African Football’s decision to cancel its global media and sponsorship rights agreement with the Lagardère Sports age…

Online streaming platform Twitch has hired Lou Garate, a long-time executive with US motor-racing series Nascar, as its first global head of sponsorship sales
Table Tennis

The International Table Tennis Federation has pledged commitment to three initiatives following its executive committee meeting on October 20 and 21 in Chengdu, China
Tennis

The Kooyong Classic tennis exhibition tournament in Melbourne, Australia has announced star players and significant new commercial partnerships ahead of its 2020 edition
Football

The German Football League (DFL) has renewed the contract of Robert Klein, the chief executive of Bundesliga International, the league's international broadcast rights selling arm
Football

Telco TIM has enhanced its association with the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) by agreeing a wide-ranging two-season deal encompassing media and sponsorship rights focusing on the women’s game.
Football

The Asian Football Confederation is looking to recruit a head of media rights and a head of sponsorship to support the recently-appointed commercial director Andrew Rogers

The Argentinian Football Association (AFA) is expected to this week make a decision on the award of a video assistant referee (VAR) technology supplier contract
Multi-sport

Dame Heather Rabbatts, chair of strategic communications agency Vero Communications, and media-rights consultant David Kogan OBE have launched the Women’s Sports Group, a new venture designed to create o…
Football

England’s Football Association has named Kathryn Swarbrick as its new commercial and marketing director.
Esports

Messaging service Rakuten Viber has signed a three-year deal with e-Ligue 1, the esports offshoot of the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the French football league