Beer

The Chinese Football Association has signed a four-year extension to its partnership with the Yanjing Beer brand.

English Premier League football club Liverpool has extended a sponsorship deal with the Carlsberg brewery.

Australian lager brand Foster’s has agreed a two-year sponsorship deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board.

Australian lager brand Foster’s has secured a partnership with English county cricket club Durham.

Spanish brewery Estrella Galicia has extended its partnership with Formula One motor-racing team Toro Rosso.

UK alcoholic ginger beer brand Crabbie’s has entered into a partnership with Scottish Rugby, the governing body of rugby union in the country.

Mexican beer brand Tecate has agreed a multi-year sponsorship deal with boxing promotional company Golden Boy Promotions, along with an endorsement contract with national hero Canelo Alvarez.

Dutch Eredivisie football team AZ Alkmaar has agreed a five-year extension to its partnership with brewery Amstel.

US beer brand Budweiser has renewed its partnership with NBA basketball franchise the Cleveland Cavaliers.

UK brewer Greene King has agreed shirt sponsorship deals with English Premiership rugby union team Newcastle Falcons and Newcastle Thunder, which competes in the third tier of English rugby league.

Fiba, world basketball's governing body, expects its Global Partner programme for the next cycle to bring in increased revenue, following its deal with the Chinese state-owned conglomerate Beijing Enterprises.

The England and Wales Cricket Board has unveiled Greene King IPA as the official beer of England cricket.

US beer brand Budweiser has entered into a strategic partnership with the Chinese division of American football league the NFL.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has signed Chinese conglomerate Beijing Enterprises Group as its first international partner under the governing body’s new competition system.

Scottish beer brand Tennent’s has expanded its existing partnership with the Irish Football Association, the sport’s governing body in Northern Ireland, by agreeing a deal to become the new title sponsor of the Irish Cup club knockout competition.

The Boat Race Company has sealed a new partnership with UK brewer Adnams Southwold.

Dos Equis, a beer brand produced by Mexican brewery Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma, has struck a deal to become a sponsor of the College Football Playoff (CFP) US collegiate American football system.

The Anheuser-Busch brewery has extended and expanded its long-term partnership with the North American National Basketball Association (NBA) to include the USA Basketball governing body for the first time.