Football Partnerships

PRNewswire via COMTEX

MATCH Hospitality AG, the worldwide exclusive rights holder of the FIFA Hospitality Programme until 2014, has appointed SportsMark Management Group as its exclusive agent for the USA for the sales of the Official Hospitality Programme of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.

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The Carolina Speed made their official announcement Tuesday, September, 23rd to bring Professional Indoor Football back to the Queen City in a press conference held at Cricket Arena. In front of a packed house in “The Locker Room” the team talked about its commitment to provide football fans with an exciting, hard hitting, fun, family orientated form ofentertainment at an affordable price. 

When asked about the team’s commitment to the City of Charlotte and it fans. Carolina Speed Owner, Eddie Littlefield stated, “The Carolina Speed is excited to be Charlotte’s only Premier Professional Indoor Football team, we will be here as long as City of Charlotte and its fans want us to be here.”

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By Discuit

The Premiership is the most lucrative football league on the globe, right?

So it will come as no surprise that television companies across the world are currently lining up to bid hundreds of millions, in order to broadcast the games when the rights hit the market in January 2009. But will a successful bid by ESPN be the final nail in a rotting coffin that will demonstrate the globalisation of a league that has already lost it’s identity?

Since BSkyB’s acquisition of the Premier League rights in 1990, their sports orientated channel Sky Sports has played an enormous role in the commercialisation of British football. They have arguably played the biggest part in making the Premiership the most popular football league on the planet today.

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By Darren Heitner

Definitions of the word “exclusive” include “sole”, “complete”, “undivided”, “full”, “inimitable” and “absolute”. Inherent in the meaning of “exclusive sponsorship” is an (official) association with a sporting event, by an organization, at the exclusion of other organizations.

Organizations that wish to obtain such affiliation with sporting events generally have to pay a lot of money for the privilege. The more prestigious the event, the more the organization will have to pay. The rights will almost always go to the organization willing to part with the most amount of money. This sum is often very substantial.

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Deutsche Telekom, to develop an ITV application to complement T-Home’s coverage of German soccer’s Bundesliga (note: Deutsche Telekom, which signed a development agreement with emuse late last year, holds the IPTV rights for Bundesliga soccer for T-Home).

According to the companies, the “Bundesliga Interaktive” application features coverage of up to nine concurrent live soccer matches every game weekend; lets viewers watch a variety of those games simultaneously; and also lets viewers access catch-up footage of select game highlights as little as 30 seconds after the highlighted events occur. The app also lets viewers access club updates, player news and match statistics. In addition, the full games and game highlight packages are archived for later viewing on-demand.

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