By Jaroslaw Adamowski
June 29 – Global shopping brand Lyoness has signed a contract to become the main sponsor of Rapid Wien. The company will serve as the Austrian side’s main sponsor, starting in the 2015/2016 season, for a five-year period under a deal worth some €1.8 million per year, Rapid said.
By Samindra Kunti
June 26 – The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the alliance of free-to-air European broadcasters, has struck an agreement with UEFA for the exclusive broadcast rights for EURO2016 across 26 European territories.
By Paul Nicholson
June 25 – 153-year old Notts County, the world’s oldest professional club, has landed the biggest sponsorship deal in the club’s history with betting and gaming giant Ladbrokes.
By Mark Baber
June 25 – Delta Air Lines has agreed a new three-year deal with Chelsea as the club’s official airline sponsor, putting the final nails in the coffin of the long rumoured Turkish Airlines tie-up.
June 24 – Premier League champions Chelsea have announced Gibraltar based sports betting firm BetVictor as their global betting and gaming partner.
June 23 – English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur has launched a new club app – Spurs Go – which will provide on demand video as well as the club’s Match Centre and social hub.
June 22 – New Balance has continued its football expansion with the launch of the new 2015/16 FC Porto home kit as well as the global debut of the clothing company’s first football boots, the Visaro.
By Paul Nicholson
June 22 – Premier League social media giants Manchester United have broken yet another record, storming through the 100 million connections threshold when all accounts are aggregated.
By Paul Nicholson
June 20 – Will the Premier League new boys have their work cut out in the Twitter rankings in the same way that they will have to battle for points for Premiership position, and most likely survival?
By Jaroslaw Adamowski
June 19 – Romania’s football federation FRF has inked a contract with local telecommunications company Telekom Romania which will become the main sponsor of the country’s national team.
June 16 – Digital developer Chroma Sports has built a new user interface for the launch of new TV and online gambling service Win Cash Live.
By Tom Parsons
June 12 – The largest chain of ice-cream specialty shops, Baskin-Robbins, are giving Liverpool fans in Indonesia the chance of a lifetime this summer to celebrate the Merseyside club visiting Southeast Asia on their pre-season tour.
June 11 – After a traumatic two weeks, it is almost business as usual at CONCACAF. Today national teams qualified for the Gold Cup announced their provisional 35 player rosters for the July tournament. While on the commercial side the confederation for north and central America and the Caribbean announced a new Gold Cup sponsor.
By Jaroslaw Adamowski
June 10 – Spanish sports apparel brand Joma has signed a new kit deal with Toulouse FC in a move which marks the manufacturer’s first technical sponsorship contract inked with a French Ligue 1 club.
By Mark Baber
June 10 – UEFA has signed three new major sponsorship deals covering its European club competitions with PepsiCo, Enterprise Rent-a-car and Unicredit.