Arsenal and Everton from the English Premier League and AS Roma from Italy’s Serie A will be among the leading organisations giving an insight into effective communication and experiential marketing strategies at The Fan Experience seminar this September.

Leading names from the representative bodies of four different sports have been named as panellists at Premier Sports Network’s Player Care UK event on May 9 in Manchester.

The Bulls and the Sharks are set to face off twice in two days in Johannesburg in February. The day before John Plumtree’s side visit Loftus for their 24th February Super Rugby match-up, the two clubs will be rivals for one of the most prestigious prizes in the South African sport industry.

Niall Quinn, the much loved former Irish international and well respected current Chairman of Sunderland AFC, will be speaking to the 1,000 strong crowd of delegates that will be attending the 4th Leaders in Football conference taking place at Chelsea FC on 5th and 6th October 2011.

Beyond Sport is delighted to unveil Beyond Sport United – a unique event that will bring together the greatest gathering of sports teams ever assembled to address their role in triggering positive social change in the communities they serve.

Soccerex are delighted to announce that all 20 English Premier League Clubs have already confirmed their attendance for the Soccerex European Forum, 30-31 March, 2011. This will be the second year in a row that the entire Premier League has been represented at the event.

Leaders in Football, the world’s most exclusive football business event, taking place for the third time at Chelsea FC on 6th and 7th October 2010, is pleased to announce that St Louis Blues (NHL) and Real Salt Lake (MLS) Owner, Dave Checketts will be addressing the Leaders audience.

Ajax, Aston Villa, Benfica, Bolton Wanders, Burnley, Celtic, Liverpool, Newcastle, Stuttgart and Wigan Athletic are amongst the first-batch of football clubs to sign up to SoccerMatch. This specially designed networking platform brings together industry-focused supplier groups with representatives from leading European clubs, in a series of round table networking sessions.

A new opinion poll of football clubs, sponsors, agencies and other bodies that looked at a variety of commercial challenges within the sport has concluded that fans need to be treated more like paying consumers and that their continued loyalty shouldn’t be taken for granted.<BR>