Europe’s top football governing body UEFA has extended its outsourcing contract with Interoute, meaning the telecoms provider will host roughly 98 per cent of UEFA’s IT services (including digital media such as websites) during the next international UEFA European Championship, hosted in France in 2016.

The four year contract extension includes the launch of new Interoute-hosted services, including the use of Microsoft Lync and a new Bring Your Own Device strategy. Interoute will also be responsible for maintaining UEFA websites, with 160 million page visits expected around the time of Euro 2016.

"Interoute's networked cloud is the infrastructure platform for 98 per cent of all the IT services that UEFA provides, from digital media to vital back office activities," said Daniel Marion, head of ICT at UEFA.

"Interoute understands its events process and has an agile operating model to fit with the needs of supporting and managing the ICT systems it uses to run some of the most high-profile football competitions in the world.”

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