Next Season's Champions League matches will be split between free terrestrial television and pay-TV channels on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, UEFA's general secretary Gerhard Aigner said yesterday. Aigner said that teams would not exclusively be on either one or the other channel but that television coverage of the expanded Champions League would vary from week to week.

Aigner added that reports that Manchester United and Bayern Munich were being allocated 25,000 tickets each for the European Cup Final in Barcelona on May 26th were incorrect. He said the figure would only be agreed today. English champions Arsenal have signed a three-year sponsorship deal with computer game giants Sega Europe.

The new deal, which marks the end of the London club's 18-year association with electronics company JVC, will start from July 1st and is expected to dwarf Manchester United's agreement with Sharp. Reports have suggested Arsenal stand to make £12 million from the deal, money that will obviously help the Gunners to push ahead with plans to build a 60,000 capacity stadium. Arsenal may have to move out of north London if they cannot extend Highbury or find a suitable site within the borough of Islington.

Zinedine Zidane will stay at Juventus for at least another season, bosses at the Italian club said yesterday.

Zidane had expressed doubts about his future at the club but Juventus's director general, Luciano Moggi, said: "Zidane is staying with Juventus. I have spoken to him again today and he is very happy to stay with us."

Zidane, who only signed a new contract last year, had been linked earlier in the week with a move to Spain, reportedly to please his wife, who is of Spanish origin. The long-running dispute between Celtic and Croatia Zagreb over the transfer of Mark Viduka to the Parkhead club was finally settled yesterday - without the adjudication of FIFA.