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Austria: Lyoness (online shopping) becomes main shirt sponsor of Rapid Vienna until 2020-21

Lyoness, the Swiss headquartered online shopping platform, has become the main shirt sponsor of SK Rapid Vienna (Austria) until 2020-21, the club announced on 22/06/2015. The contract amount is €1.8m per year. Lyoness replaces the Austrian energy company Wien Energie, which had been the main shirt…
Domain(s): Sponsors & Partners
• Category(ies): Clubs, Marketing - Communication
• Article # 45295
• Published on 23/06/15 at 19:13
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UEFA: Spain, England and Germany maintain coefficient ranks for 4 Champions League slots in 2016-17

"Spain remains out in front in the UEFA association club coefficient rankings, with England and Germany also keeping the top-three slots that ensure four UEFA Champions League berths in 2016-17," stated UEFA on 16/06/2015, in announcing the final association and club coefficient rankings after the…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs
• Article # 45290
• Published on 23/06/15 at 18:40
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Olympics: Paris is an official candidate to host the 2024 Summer Games

The City of Paris is officially bidding to host the Summer Olympic Games 2024, announced the association Ambition Olympique (Olympic Ambition), which will be managing the application, at a ceremony organised at the French Maison du Sport (House of Sport) in Paris (FRA) on 23/06/2015. Paris will…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Legal, Marketing - Communication
• Article # 45230
• Published on 23/06/15 at 17:35
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Serie A: no bids in final sale action for Parma FC, bankrupt club to be dissolved to amateur status

"The (court-appointed bankruptcy) administrators of Parma FC, Angelo Anedda and Alberto Guion, communicated that as of 14:00 CET today 22/06/2015, no offers have been received for the sporting rights of the club," announced Parma FC (relegated from the Serie A TIM in 2014-15) in a statement on…
Domain(s): Clubs
• Category(ies): Finance, Authorities, Legal
• Article # 45200
• Published on 23/06/15 at 16:50
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2018 World Cup: Russia reduces its budget by €475.3m, bringing it to €10.3bn

The organising committee of the 2018 World Cup announced a reduction of 29.2bn rubles, or about €475.3m (-4.5%) to the budget on the orders of Russian Prime Minister -- and former President -- Dmitry Medvedev on 22/06/2015. The budget of the 2018 World Cup is now 632bn rubles (about €10.3bn)…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Finance
• Article # 45245
• Published on 23/06/15 at 16:20
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Spain: Court orders the website Rojadirecta to stop the illegal broadcasting of games

"Commercial Court number 11 in Madrid has ordered the immediate end to illegal transmissions of LaLiga games via www.rojadirecta.me allowing the precautionary measures requested by Mediapro and Gol T (two broadcasters of the Liga BBVA)," announced the Spanish professional football league on…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs, Finance, …
• Article # 45221
• Published on 23/06/15 at 15:44
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Spain: LaLiga wants to install centralised TV rights from 2015-16, Mediapro to market abroad rights

"LaLiga aims to put the wheels in motion of centralised commercialisation of television rights for the 2015-2016 season. As such, on Friday 19/06/2015, LaLiga announced to its clubs and SAD (sports limited companies) during a meeting being held in Villarreal (ESP) that an agreement had been…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Clubs, Authorities, …
• Article # 45235
• Published on 23/06/15 at 15:06
Germany: nearly 6.9 million licensed members in 2014-15 (+0.5%), new world record

The DFB counted 6,889,115 member football players in 2014-15, which is the highest total in its history, announced the German football federation on 19/06/2015. This number is up 0.5% (+37,223 members) from 2013-14. "Football in Germany is more popular than ever. A lot of that has to do with our…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs
• Article # 45228
• Published on 23/06/15 at 13:20
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Euro 2016: "A (pitch) diagnosis a few months ago that was not very reassuring" (Jacques Lambert)

"UEFA has very high quality requirements in this area. We did make a diagnosis a few months ago that was not very reassuring. So we will have to work a lot this season to assure that, by early June 2016, the pitches that are up to the requirements of UEFA," says Jacques Lambert, President of EURO…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Stadiums
• Article # 45173
• Published on 23/06/15 at 11:10
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Premier League: Tottenham Hotspur launch new mobile application "Spurs Go" with OneUp Sports

Tottenham Hotspur FC (Barclays Premier League) has launched "Spurs Go", their new official mobile application, in association with the American application developer Sports OneUp, which had already created "Spurs Connect", the official Spurs mobile game, announced the club on 19/06/2015. Spurs Go…
Domain(s): Clubs
• Category(ies): Digital, Marketing - Communication
• Article # 45167
• Published on 23/06/15 at 10:39