Uefa Champions League

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Media

PSG's demolition of Inter in the Uefa Champions League final attracted a strong audience in France but failed to deliver viewing records, whereas TV8 in Italy did register a record.
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The end of Canal Plus’ Uefa Champions League sublicensing deal with Altice in France plus a “tough comparable” with the first three months of 2024 both contributed to a 2.5-per-cent quarterly revenue drop at the pay-television broadcast group.
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Industry Moves

Relevent Sports Group is recruiting a London-based chief commercial officer to head up the creation and delivery of global sponsorship and licensing sales to Uefa club competitions, SportBusiness understands
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Media

Relevent Sports Group is to establish a special purpose vehicle to fulfil its global Uefa club competitions rights contract, mirroring the structure of Team Marketing, its ousted competitor.
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Media

The Uefa Champions League suffered a downturn in exposure last night amid the ongoing distribution standoff between rights-holder TV2 and the telco Telia
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Chinese online retail giant Jingdong has become the fourth and final sponsor to sign up to the Uefa Champions League’s secondary package, appearing on break-bumpers during this week’s matches.
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Media

Team Marketing is set to lose its historic Uefa club competitions business after Relevent Sports Group entered into an exclusive period of negotiation for the 2027-33 cycle in a hammer blow to the Switzerland-based…
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Governance

Top European football league executives have reignited the debate over the international match calendar, with outspoken LaLiga president Javier Tebas telling delegates at the Spobis conference in Hamburg that the game is “heading towards disaster”.
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Media

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE is to continue to provide the Uefa Champions League final on free-to-air television for the next three years
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Team Marketing is looking to sell its final piece of Uefa Champions League sponsorship inventory for the 2024-27 cycle after inviting brands to bid for the last slot in the new second-tier category
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Media

Incumbents Team Marketing and Relevent Sports Group are the two agencies still vying to sell Uefa club competition rights from 2027-28 following recent presentations, SportBusiness understands
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Events

Uefa has re-opened the bidding process to select the host of the 2027 Champions League final after stripping the Italian city of Milan of the hosting rights
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Media

Pay-television operator Canal Plus has struck a late rights deal with ORF, Austria's public-service broadcaster, ahead of its debut coverage of the Uefa club competitions in the country
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Qatar Airways will be the new global airline sponsor of the Uefa Champions League until at least 2030 having agreed an unprecedented two-cycle deal, SportBusiness can reveal.
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Media

At least five top-tier sports marketing agencies are vying for the chance to sell Uefa Champions League commercial rights from 2027-28 onward, after the deadline for bids passed this morning.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Oppo has downgraded its sponsorship deal for the Uefa Champions League to become one of the competition’s new second-tier partners for the next three-year cycle.
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Governance

Uefa president Aleksander Čeferin has acknowledged that too many matches are being played by Europe's leading teams, but defended the new format of the expanded Champions League group stage as a necessary …
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Media

The Uefa Champions League final is likely to remain on free-to-air television in Spain for another three seasons after Team Marketing initiated a sales process, SportBusiness understands