Governance

Football
Events

Fifa has approved plans for its first Women’s Club World Cup and in a potentially ground-breaking move, set up a working party to review rules that currently block the staging of club matches overseas.
Football
Industry Moves

Bundesliga International has made a trio of executive hires and promotions across Asia-Pacific and India, as it looks to further build the league's exposure on the ground with media rights deals already locked in across much of the region for the long term.
Motorsport
Media

Nascar is following the example of the National Basketball Association and Major League Soccer by unveiling an in-season, bracket-style tournament for its Cup Series to begin in 2025
Basketball
Governance

The Big3 has announced its first sale of home-team rights with the $10m (€9.3m) purchase of a Los Angeles franchise by a consortium led by DCB Sports, as the basketball league prepares to shift to a city-based competition in 2025.
Basketball
Governance

The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is to expand into Canada for the first time in 2026, when Toronto joins as the 14th team
Basketball
Finance & Law

Basketball Australia is stepping up plans to privatise the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL), with advanced talks having been held with a number of the country's richest business executives.
Rugby Union
Media

World Rugby is increasingly looking to unbundle commercial rights to the women’s game, following similar steps taken by Fifa and Uefa in recent years, but believes that bundled rights deals “still make sense” in certain markets.
Football
Events

Brazil is the favourite to stage the 2027 Women’s World Cup after Fifa’s evaluation report scored its bid more highly than its European rival from Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.
Football
Finance & Law

Investment fund 777 Partners has been accused of a $350m fraud and double-pledging of assets in a US lawsuit which represents the most serious threat yet to its controversial multi-club ownership model.
Multi-sport
Governance

Jan Lehmann, a former German Football League (DFL) and Infront agency executive, has been appointed as the first chief executive of the European Olympic Committees (EOC)
Motorsport
Governance

A group of US Congress members has written to Formula 1 owner Liberty Media demanding to know why Andretti-GM’s application to join the motor racing series was blocked and raising concerns over “apparent ant…
Football
Governance

New Uefa regulations on multi-club ownership come into force today (Wednesday) and could impact on some of the continent’s leading clubs taking part in next season's European clubs competitions.
Skiing
Media

A controversial vote on Friday by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) council to push through media rights centralisation has reignited a dispute with Europe’s leading ski associations w…
Rugby Union
Finance & Law

Rugby Australia recorded a A$9.2m (€5.6m/$6m) loss following a four-per-cent decline in revenue for 2023, as the sport’s governing body paid the price for a disappointing Rugby World Cup performance.
American Football
Governance

The National Football League's commissioner Roger Goodell has said the league could expand to 18 regular-season games and could increase international fixtures to as many as 16
Football
Media

FC Porto has elected a new president for the first time in more than 40 years as one of Portugal's Big Three clubs prepares to play a crucial role in the commercial overhaul of the Primeira Liga this decade.
Football
Governance

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters has hit out at Fifa for refusing to engage in talks with football stakeholders worldwide over the expansion of the international calendar.
Ice Hockey
Governance

The National Hockey League is giving serious consideration to further changing its matchday scheduling at home to create more game windows for fans in Europe as part of internationalisation plans that are already proving fruitful. Shawn Meadow reports.