Sport

Ghanaian Football League Champions Kumasi Asante Kotoko FC have announced the first ever sponsorship between a Ghana professional football club and a bookmaker. The football club announced that it had signed a three year betting partnership with African focused sports betting operator – Supabets – http://www.supabets.com.gh/Sport/Default.aspx Kumasi Asante Kotoko senior management announced that the new deal with Supabets was worth …

The FA has embarked on an education and awareness drive as its newly strengthened betting rules come into force ahead of the 2014-15 season. As from this month, players, managers, club employees and match officials are not allowed to place any bet on any football matter. This includes not just domestic matches and competitions in England but any football worldwide. …

GTECH’s sports betting operations in Italy grew by 26.6% in the last quarter, which the firm has attributed to the FIFA World Cup, the introduction of virtual betting in the country and a stable payout percentage. Sports Betting saw revenues grow to €40.1m in Q2 from €31.7m for the same period in 2013, with turnover also jumping 22.9% to €218m. …

William Hill has announced a 26% drop in profits after tax to £98.6m for the first half of the year, although net revenue over the period increased by 7% to £805.2m. Group operating profit was 2 per cent lower at £176.9m, which the bookmaker said reflected the impact of more customer-friendly results year on year, particularly in the first quarter. …

Sportradar has extended its partnership with the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), under which Sportradar will monitor betting on a range of CONCACAF and regional competitions for the 2014-2015 competition period. Sportradar will use its unique Fraud Detection System (FDS) to scrutinise worldwide betting on these competitions, and will alert CONCACAF of any suspicious events …

12Bet will be back on a Premier League team shirt this season after the Asian-facing bookmaker signed a deal to become Hull City’s new main sponsor. 12Bet CEO Rory Anderson explains how the deal came about and what value it gives to the firm in terms of international exposure.   SBC: First up – Why Hull City? Anderson: There were …

English Championship football club Derby County FC have announced a two year partnership with forex and financial trading platform TradeNext As part of the partnership, TradeNext will work in collaboration with the senior team at Derby County and members of the first-team playing squad to develop and produce a financial literacy programme that educates fans and supporters about financial trading. …

Danish igaming and sports betting focused operator Bet25.dk has become official shirt sponsor of Copenhagen based football club Brøndby IF. The deal announced last week by the Brøndby IF board, will see the football club promote Bet25.dk products for the 2014/2015 Danish Superliga and European football season. Brøndby IF and Bet25.dk did not disclose any information on the sum of …

Big moments are big opportunities… Senior Vice President at Nielsen, Sean Casey, said “sports events account for 2-to-3 percent of television programming every month. Yet that small amount produces roughly 50 percent of Twitter’s overall activity around TV.” The World Cup is the sporting event, and so the second screen, and Twitter, enjoyed even more attention over the course of …

The UK Leisure industry has labelled the 2014 Brazil World Cup, as the ‘stay at home World Cup’, as Greene King Leisure Tracker, published a 6% decrease on drinking and eating out. Leisure Tracker published figures that the UK leisure and hospitality sector had witnessed a decrease of £12 from £192.22 in May to £180.28 in June. Making it the …