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Premiership Rugby to partner league-wide with Ticketmaster Sport
Premiership Rugby and Ticketmaster Sport can today announce a ground-breaking new long-term partnership. This innovative partnership, the first of its kind in the UK, will see Ticketmaster Sport become the Official Ticketing Partner for Premiership Rugby to deliver...
Rugby League World Cup 2021 is back – full schedule now revealed!
In exactly one year’s time, the biggest and best Rugby League World Cup in history will reach its thrilling climax in a showpiece weekend in Manchester featuring the wheelchair final followed by the double-header men’s and women’s final at Old Trafford. Rugby League...
Increase Club Revenue with Flexible Payment Options
Offering fans flexible ways to pay not only gives fans a frictionless purchase experience but it’s one of the primary ways to help increase club revenue. Through Ticketmaster’s partnership with Klarna Pay Later, your club’s fans can choose to delay payment by up to 30...
Notts County Make History by Breaking National League Attendance Record
Notts County have sensationally broken the National League attendance record when they welcomed 12,843 fans to Meadow Lane on Saturday 13 November in a 2-0 match v Solihull Moors. Expressing gratitude, Chief Executive, Jason Turner commented, "Our main objective was...
Ticketmaster Sport and Scottish Rugby extend long term partnership
Ticketmaster Sport is pleased to announce the renewal of their partnership with Scottish Rugby for a further 5 years.Scottish Rugby and Ticketmaster Sport have a long-standing and successful partnership during which, Ticketmaster has provided industry-leading...
Ticketmaster Sport extends long-term partnership with NFL for the London Games
Ticketmaster Sport and the National Football League (NFL) today announced a multi-year extension of their partnership for the NFL London Games. Ticketmaster Sport’s industry-leading sports ticketing technology will be utilised by the NFL to elevate all aspects of the...
The Drive to Reach a New Generation of Rugby Fans – Q&A with London Irish Marketing and Communications Director Ian Taylor
West London-based Premiership rugby club London Irish has experienced significant change after a recent move to their new home at Brentford Community Stadium off the back of a challenging 18 months in the industry. Their recent introduction of a pioneering season...
Ticketmaster Sport appoints Ivan Worsell in Key Consultancy Role
Ticketmaster Sport is pleased to announce Ivan Worsell has joined the Ticketmaster Sport team in a key consultancy role. In line with further expansion of the business, in this new position Ivan will work alongside Chris Gratton, Chief Operating Officer, Ticketmaster...
Ticketmaster signs the European Championships Munich 2022
Ticketmaster Germany has been selected to ticket the European Championships 2022 in Munich, one of the biggest European sporting events set to take place next year. As the ticketing partner, Ticketmaster will provide a full scope of services from discovery and...
London Irish Announce Partnership with Ticketmaster Sport
As the countdown to the 2021/22 season continues, London Irish is delighted to announce a new ticketing services partnership with Ticketmaster Sport. The partnership will see Ticketmaster – the global market leader in live event ticketing – provide sports ticketing...
Ticketmaster Sport Renews Partnership with Swindon Town FC
Ticketmaster Sport is pleased to announce a renewal of its ticketing partnership with Swindon Town FC for a further 5 years. As Swindon Town enters a new era after announcing new ownership under Clem Morfuni earlier this year, the Club decided to extend its...
Rugby League World Cup 2021 – New Dates Confirmed for 2022
Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) have confirmed the dates for the tournament will now take place between Saturday 15 October – Saturday 19 November 2022. RLWC2021 have also announced that the opening match and the men’s / women’s double header finals will be...
Panathinaikos FC announce Ticketmaster as club’s official ticketing partner
Ticketmaster is proud to announce an official ticketing partnership with Athens-based, top-flight club Panathinaikos FC. In conjunction with the new partnership, Ticketmaster will provide the Club with a range of innovative digital products, providing PAO fans with...
Transforming the Fan Experience – Q&A with Ticketmaster’s Senior Vice President of Design – Christine Lanoy
Fans are the beating heart of our industry, so giving them the very best experience, from first click to entering the stadium is vital to ensuring fan loyalty and helping to drive revenues for our partners. Ticketmaster continually invests in the fan experience by...
Ticketmaster Sport launches a transformed fan ticketing experience
In a major move, Ticketmaster Sport has completely transformed the fan ticketing experience for sports clients and their fans with the launch of a newly redesigned fan ticketing site. Combining both UX and UI research, design,...
Ticketmaster announced as Official Ticketing Partner to Italy’s National Basketball League
Ticketmaster Italy is pleased to announce an official ticketing partnership with Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro, the National Basketball League of Italy. Commenting on the announcement, Daniele Bei, Managing Director Ticketmaster Italy says, "This new partnership with...
Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games – Event Schedule published
The full event schedule for Birmingham 2022 has been released, allowing sports fans to see the detail of exactly which events will be held in each of the 286 sessions that will feature at next summer’s Games. Women’s cricket T20, basketball 3×3, wheelchair basketball...
NFL London Games are back for 2021
NFL have today announced that the London Games are to return for 2021 and will take place in October at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. With the cancellation of the International games in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, this will be welcome news for sports fans....
Ticketmaster Sport win at the Sports Technology Awards 2021
On Thursday 7 May in a live virtual ceremony, sports brands came together to recognise and celebrate technology innovation in the sports industry. Amongst sporting royalty including Sir Ben Ainslie, Katie Omerod, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Alistair Brownlee and a...
Livingston FC extend ticket partnership with Ticketmaster Sport
Livingston FC is pleased to announce that the club has extended its ticketing partnership with sports technology solution provider Ticketmaster Sport for a further 3 years. Since initially launching the partnership with Ticketmaster Sport in September 2018, the...
Bristol Rovers FC appoints Ticketmaster Sport as new ticketing solutions provider
Bristol Rovers FC have announced a partnership with leading sports ticketing technology provider Ticketmaster Sport. In a move designed to strengthen the club’s technology offering and to provide fans with the best fan experience possible, Bristol Rovers FC have...
Harlequins Announce Partnership with Ticketmaster Sport
Ticketmaster Sport is delighted to announce a ticketing services partnership with Harlequins for the 21/22 season onwards. Harlequins have chosen Ticketmaster as their preferred partner to provide sports ticketing technology solutions on a long-term deal with the...
Rugby League World Cup 2021 Now on Sale
21 nations, 32 teams, 18 host towns and cities, fans and communities come together in the ultimate showdown in Rugby League sport. For the first time in its history, the men's women's and wheelchair tournaments take place together in what will surely be the greatest...
Digital Ticketing – The Safe and Secure Solution
Delivering a safe and secure way for fans to attend live sport has never been more important than it is today. At Ticketmaster, we offer a digital tickets solution as standard and have been able to provide this to our clients for several years. What’s more, we can...
Ticketmaster Appointed Exclusive Ticketing Partner to European League of Football
The European League of Football will kick off its inaugural season in June 2021 with eight franchises from three nations all competing to bring football to the professional stage in Europe. This new partnership with Ticketmaster is an important step in the development...
Ticketmaster Sport shortlisted in the 2021 Sports Technology Awards
Ticketmaster Sport is pleased to announce we have been shortlisted for the Sports Technology Awards categories of 'Best Operations, Commerce and Event Management Technology' for the tools we developed to help our clients manage the response to Covid 19 and in the...
TICKETMASTER SPORT TO SUPPORT LEICESTERSHIRE CCC PREPARE FOR THE RETURN OF SPECTATORS
Leicestershire County Cricket Club is delighted to announce a unique collaboration with Ticketmaster Sport to provide additional sports ticketing technology and services, to help the club prepare for the return of spectators during the 2021 season. The Running Foxes...
Tottenham Hotspur and Ticketmaster Sport launch new partnership to drive ticketing technology innovation
Tottenham Hotspur is pleased to announce the renewal of an exclusive long-term partnership with Ticketmaster Sport, the global leader in advanced ticketing technologies, who become the Club’s Official Ticketing Innovation Supplier. In a first of its kind, the Club and...
VIRTUAL TICKETS INITIATIVE TRIUMPH FOR ICTFC MATCH V HEARTS
The stands may be empty and the stadiums quiet, but one thing that you can guarantee is that football can always deliver support from within when it’s needed the most. Inverness Caledonian Thistle report that their virtual ticketing initiative has been a unanimous...
Bringing England Fans Back in Style
This week we wanted to highlight The RFU who made the most of a position in Tier 2, and great timing to bring fans back to Twickenham Stadium with England playing France in the Final of the Autumn Nations Cup. For the lucky 2000 allowed in, it was a...
We are back!
Following our announcement earlier this week regarding our involvement with the Sport Technology and Innovation Group, we're also really pleased to see a lot of our advice and guidance to be delivered in practice as fans returned this week. The work wont stop and we...
Ticketing partners come together to support the return of fans to live sport
Three of the biggest online ticketing companies in the UK have come together to develop a set of guidelines to support the return of fans to live sporting events. Ticketmaster Sport, SecuTix and SeatGeek Sport have worked in partnership to identify a framework of...
Return to live – Recap
We wanted to take the time to look back on the past six months of our return to live series communications and recap on what we've been doing at Ticketmaster Sport to make the return of fans to stadiums as simple as possible for our clients. Whilst that date to bring...
Swansea FC go completely digital with Ticketmaster Sport
We're delighted to announce a seven-year extension to our partnership with Swansea FC. Our partnership is set to revolutionise the ticketing experience for the Jack Army, with plans in place to convert to a completely digital ticketing system from the start of the...
Return to live – Rugby League World Cup Public Ballot launches!
We've been tracking the success of the Rugby League World Cup in our #returntolive series of communications and today was another milestone for the tournament. The public ballot for ticket applications launched today! Fans are now able to apply for tickets for each of...
Ticketmaster Sport is searching for new talent
Ticketmaster Sport exists to provide a seamless connection between sports and their fans. So never has there been a better or more exciting time to join the Ticketmaster Sport team as we continue to champion the very best in innovative ticketing technology solutions,...