07.07.2023 – Sports Industry News

AFL

• Tanunda, located 75km north of the CBD, is firming to stage a game during the second edition of the Gather Round football festival, to be held in April.

ALM

• With the main grand stand up, grass on the pitch down and flood lights in place; progress is steadily being made at Tarneit

NRL

• Work will begin on the Penrith Panthers’ new $309 million stadium at the end of next season. the project will be scaled back from a Commbank Stadium level of capacity
• Remember the drama from earlier this year when Allianz Stadium joint tenants Sydney FC covered up the ‘Home of the Sydney Roosters’ sign with a $150 Bunning tarpaulin. Well, FIFA is about to do the same thing.
• Rugby league is about to face its toughest television ratings battle with hopelessly out-of-form NRL teams going up against serious opposition
• The ARL Commission has revealed plans to take rugby league’s $100 million showpiece, State of Origin, to New Zealand.

  NRL’s player rights war has taken another sour turn amid claims the playing group was privately fractured along gender lines, with the players’ union allegedly refusing to concede growth funds or equal share of revenue to NRLW players.

World Cup

• Channel 7 insiders are suggesting the Matildas will attract a national audience of more than three million viewers – higher than State of Origin – for the first soccer World Cup game this country has hosted.
• As the excitement for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 reaches fever pitch, Commonwealth Bank and creative agency GHO Sydney have launched a new brand sponsorship campaign ‘For all the goals we share’