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Icons series appoint Dizplai as media experience partner

The Icons Series has partnered with Dizplai to build out their interactive audience strategy for their upcoming Icons of Football event at Reignwood, Bangkok. Featuring a who’s-who of football talent, the Icons Series pulls together elite titans of sport with a high-level golf game, to play off in a Ryder-Cup-style event that looks to invigorate […]

February 28, 2025

Premier Sports to air Copa del Rey

The Semi Finals and Final of Spanish football’s premier cup competition, the Copa del Rey, will be screened live and exclusive in the UK on Premier Sports. Spanish titans Barcelona and Real Madrid face Atletico Madrid and Real Sociedad respectively in their two-legged Semi Final ties and in early April. The Copa Del Rey Final […]

February 21, 2025

Prime Video UK offers PPV French football

Prime Video is expanding the selection of live sports available in the UK by launching a Pay-Per-View (PPV) marketplace to purchase live football matches with no Prime membership or long-term commitment required, beginning with the arrival of Ligue 1 McDonald’s from February 22nd. Football fans in the UK will be able to purchase the biggest […]

February 20, 2025

FIFA+ on Netgem

Netgem has announced a collaboration with FIFA+, the official streaming platform of FIFA. The partnership brings access to free football content to Netgem TV viewers across Europe via their telcos’ TV services, starting with the UK and Ireland this February, followed by France and other regions in the near future. Netgem users in the UK […]

February 19, 2025

France: DAZN delays Ligue 1 payments

Sports streaming platform DAZN has threatened not to pay part of the due sums to the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), citing growing Ligue 1 football piracy. The LFP has urged an emergency meeting of its administration board. This week, DAZN is scheduled to pay the fourth contracted instalment in a deal signed in summer […]

February 12, 2025From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

DAZN signs European League of Football deal

The European League of Football (ELF) and DAZN, the sports streaming platform, have signed a new eight-year partnership that will see DAZN broadcast all 101 games of the 2025 season. DAZN will become the exclusive OTT provider with a new ‘ELF Game Pass’ product and will become the single destination where fans of the competition […]

January 30, 2025

Report: Top 20 football clubs generate €11.2bn revenue

The top 20 revenue generating clubs in world football made a record €11.2 billion in the 2023/24 season, according to the 28th edition of the Football Money League published by the Deloitte Sports Business Group. This marks a 6 per cent increase in cumulative revenues from the previous season, with Money League clubs reporting record matchday, […]

January 23, 2025

TNT Sports appoints Thomas as Head of Football

Pete Thomas will join TNT Sports as its new Head of Football on March 1st. He joins from production house Whisper. In a broadcasting career spanning two decades, Thomas has worked across a host of sports and major sporting events including Premier League football, European football, rugby and NFL. He moved to Whisper from Noah […]

January 21, 2025By Nik Roseveare

UEFA supports international anti-piracy operation

UEFA has welcomed the international anti-piracy operation led by the Republic of Bulgaria’s Ministry of the Interior, with key support from the law enforcement agencies of the Italian Republic and the Republic of Croatia, as well as Europol and Eurojust. Operation Kratos, carried out in summer 2024 against the background of major sporting events such […]

January 20, 2025