Balkans

Motorsport
Media

Max Sport, the Bulgarian pay-TV broadcaster owned by telco A1, has extended its World Rally Championship rights for two more seasons. The new deal covers the 2023 and 2024 campaigns
Football
Media

Bulgarian pay-television broadcaster Max Sport has acquired rights to club football competition the Coupe de France
Basketball
Sponsorship & Marketing

Gambling platform Meridianbet has become the new front-of-shirt sponsor for Serbian basketball champions Crvena Zvezda [Red Star Belgrade]
Mixed Martial Arts
Events

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) has announced that its 2022 World Championships will take place in Belgrade
Wrestling
Events

Belgrade will stage wrestling’s World Championships for the second consecutive year in 2023 after United World Wrestling (UWW) confirmed Russia will again be denied hosting rights.
Football
Media

Telekom Srbija has retained and expanded its exclusive Uefa club competition broadcast rights in the Balkan region after the Team Marketing agency completed the sales process
Football
Media

The Team Marketing agency has this week initiated the Uefa club competitions media rights sales processes from 2024-25 to 2026-27 in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria
Football
Media

Following recently concluded rights sales in France and the UK, the Team Marketing agency has issued invitations to submit offers (ISOs) for broadcast rights in the Balkan countries to Uefa club competitions…
Football
Licensing & Merchandising

Video game publisher EA Sports had added the Croatian Football Federation (HNS) to its roster of national team representatives for this year’s Fifa 23 game.
Football
Media

Oversport, the new OTT streaming platform in Albania, has secured a clean sweep of broadcast rights to domestic club football in the country
Multiple Sports
Sports Betting

Sports betting and gaming group Entain has today (Thursday) launched a new venture to drive expansion in Central and Eastern Europe through the €600m ($619.7m) acquisition of Croatian operator SuperSport.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Sports betting company Meridianbet has acquired naming rights to the top division of club football in Montenegro
Skiing
Governance

The national skiing associations of Austria, Croatia, Germany and Switzerland have united to protest the controversial re-election of Johan Eliasch as president of the International Ski Federation (FIS)…
Tennis
Events

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the IMG agency are to partner with the Top 12 Group to launch a new series of tennis events as part of the ATP Champions Tour
Multiple Sports
Media

United Group has reported higher revenues for the 2021 financial year thanks to multiple acquisitions that it concluded, while its sport rights spending more than doubled
Football
Finance & Law

Telekom Srbija is looking to raise up to €500m ($540m) through the corporate bonds to be issued on a European stock exchange next month.
Basketball
Events

The 2022 EuroLeague Final Four has been relocated from Berlin to Belgrade, the European club basketball competition has announced
Football
Media

The Croatian Football Federation (HNS) has secured a four-year broadcast rights deal with Hrvatski Telekom, shortly after announcing the termination of its previous contract with Endorphin Magine