Genius Sports Inc has entered a period of negotiations to extend its official betting data partnership with Football DataCo, the data rights holder of English and Scottish football. The exclusive agreement is still a subject to review and contractual approval by the Leagues and their teams. The ongoing contract is scheduled to run until the end of the 2024/25 season, …
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QuinnCasino has been named the official betting partner of Dundee United for the 2023/24 season. The casino brand of Irish bookmaker QuinnBet will see its logo placed across several touchpoints at Tannadice Park under the new agreement, as well as on the lower back of all first-team shirts over the upcoming season. Although the Premier League has now announced that …
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After last week’s announcement that Premier League football clubs are to remove gambling brands from the front of their matchday shirts, reports suggest that there are “no plans” for Scotland to follow its English counterpart. The ban will come into place from the start of the 2026/27 season for the English top-flight, but BBC Scotland has learnt that the Scottish …
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Sky Sports has enhanced its partnership with Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) to show ‘more matches than ever before’. The new broadcast agreement includes up to 60 matches from the Scottish top-flight exclusively live each season from 2024/25, with scope to increase this over the term of the deal. However, for the first time, exclusive live fixtures from the Scottish …
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The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) has launched an exclusive online streaming platform operated by OTT specialist StreamAMG, broadcasting all Scottish Championship matches. The OTT platform has been launched to cater for international audiences, helping overseas fans follow live action of Scotland’s second tier of professional football. Meanwhile, domestically Scottish Championship clubs will be allowed to use the platform for …
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The UK gambling industry could export its safer gambling expertise across the world if the Government were to have some vision for the sector, according to Ralph Topping, the former Group CEO of the William Hill Plc who has been inducted into the Sports Betting Hall of Fame this week. In an interview for SBC Summit Barcelona – Digital, the …
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Scotland’s Ladbrokes Championship, Ladbrokes League 1 and Ladbrokes League 2 has reached a ‘written resolution’ effective immediately after the SPFL’s COVID-19 crisis plan was passed. The plan, passed by 81 per cent of all SPFL clubs including the Ladbrokes Premiership, has resulted in Dundee United FC being crowned Championship champions. However, Scotland’s top decision has not been affected in the …
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SPFL football club Rangers FC has confirmed that it will not renew its in-stadia wagering partnership with bookmaker Ladbrokes, however the announcement seems to be little more than posturing from the Glasgow football club. This morning, Rangers Commercial Director James Bisgrove communicated that Ladbrokes in-stadia betting services would be discontinued from Ibrox in advance of the SPL 2020/2021 season. “Following …
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Closing 2019 trading, IMG Arena confirms that it has secured a long-term partnership to distribute Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) content to the global betting market. Agreeing terms on a five-year arrangement, IMG Arena will act as lead distributor of SPFL ‘live stream broadcasts’, and will maintain production set-ups for certain SPFL matches. The distribution will encompass Ladbrokes Premiership matches including the …
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Serving GVC Holdings’ group-wide ‘Changing for the Bettor’ social responsibility mandate, Ladbrokes informs that it will not renew its legacy title sponsorship of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). The bookmaker, who has served as SPFL sponsor since the 2015/16 season, had previously chosen to donate its £2 million per season sponsorship to industry charity GambleAware, promoting its ‘Bet Regret’ …
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