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Super League: "We were treated as if we wanted to kill football" (F. Pérez, Real Madrid)

"I am a little sad and disappointed. We have been working for three years on this project, on what we can do to improve the economic situation of football. We have been treated as if we want to kill football, when what we want is to save it," said Florentino Pérez, president of Real Madrid CF…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Marketing - Communication, Clubs, Legal, …
• Article # 215492
• Published on 23/04/21 at 10:05
©  CIO
esports: the "Olympic Virtual Series", the first esports events programme launched by the IOC

The IOC presented the "Olympic Virtual Series" (OVS), "the first-ever, Olympic-licensed event for physical and non-physical virtual sports", on 22/04/2021. This worldwide esports programme will run from 13/05 to 23/06/2021. For its first visit into esports, the IOC is joining forces with five…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Marketing - Communication, esport - gaming
• Article # 215419
• Published on 22/04/21 at 15:59
©  Paris SG
ECA: Nasser Al-Khelaïfi (PSG) named chairman, succeeding Andrea Agnelli (Juve), who has resigned

The ECA Executive Board has today appointed Nasser Al-Khelaifi (president & CEO of Paris Saint-Germain) as the new chairman of ECA," announced the European Club Association on 21/04/2021. Andrea Agnelli, chairman of Juventus FC (Serie A TIM), resigned his chairmanship of the ECA to become…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Authorities, Legal, …
• Article # 215400
• Published on 22/04/21 at 14:00
©  UEFA
Super League: "The important thing now is to rebuild unity & move forward together" (A. Ceferin, UEFA)

"The important thing now is to move forward, to rebuild the unity the sport enjoyed before, and move forward together," said Aleksander Ceferin, UEFA president, after a majority of the 12 founding clubs of a European Super League have withdrawn, on 21/04/2021. 12 of the biggest European clubs…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Essentials Public Authorities & Regulations, Clubs, Legal
• Article # 215351
• Published on 22/04/21 at 09:24
©  UEFA
UEFA: Financial Report 2019-20

Total 2019-20 revenue stands at €3.04bn, a decrease of 21% compared to 2018-19 (€3.86bn), states UEFA in the introduction to its Financial Report 2019-20, published at the end of the 45th Ordinary Congress, in Montreux (Vaud, SUI), on 20/04/2020. "The lower number of matches in the European…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Finance, Authorities
• Article # 215231
• Published on 21/04/21 at 17:10
©  D.R.
Super League: after the 6 English clubs, Atlético, Inter, AC Milan, Juventus are also backtracking

Club Atlético de Madrid (LaLiga Santander) and FC Inter Milan (Serie A TIM), and then also AC Milan and Juventus, four of the 12 major European clubs which had launched a European Super League project "governed by its founding clubs" on 18/04/2021, announce their withdrawal on 21/04/2021…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Authorities, Legal, …
• Article # 215279
• Published on 21/04/21 at 14:09
©  UEFA
45th UEFA Congress: Italian Gabriele Gravina top elected official to Executive Committee (53 votes)

The Italian Gabriele Gravina, FIGC president, has elected to the UEFA Executive Committee with 53 votes (55 National Federations come under the European body), making him the top elected candidate at the UEFA 45th Congress in Montreux (Vaud, SUI) on 20/04/2021. The other elected officials: …
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Authorities, Legal, …
• Article # 215232
• Published on 21/04/21 at 12:15
©  D.R.
Super League: "The goal is to save football" (F. Pérez, Real Madrid / European Super League)

"It is not only the rich who want the Super League, we are creating it to save football because we have reached a critical moment," said Florentino Pérez, president of Real Madrid CF and chairman of "The Super League", the company responsible to theoretically organise a European Super League, on…
Domain(s): Clubs, Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Clubs, Finance, Authorities, …
• Article # 215189
• Published on 21/04/21 at 11:30
©  AELTC/Joe Toth
Tennis / Wimbledon: a profit of £4.6m in 2020 for AELTC thanks to pandemic insurance of £174m

The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), organiser of the Wimbledon grand slam tournament, posted a turnover of £3.81m as of 31/07/2020 (€4.2m, compared to £292m in 2019) in its annual accounts published on 17/04/2021. While the Wimbledon Tournament 2020, initially scheduled from 29/06 to…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Finance
• Article # 215121
• Published on 21/04/21 at 10:29
©  MUFC
European Super League: the six English clubs withdraw from the project

Arsenal FC, Chelsea FC, Liverpool FC, Manchester City FC, Manchester United FC, and Tottenham Hotspur FC, the six English clubs among the 12 big European clubs which had launched a European Super League project to be "governed by its founding clubs" on 18/04/2021, announced their withdrawal from…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Marketing - Communication, Clubs, Authorities, …
• Article # 215227
• Published on 21/04/21 at 09:54