Premier League, the world’s most popular football league, has just released its 2018/2019 Fixture!

With the help of ECAL, the official ‘digital calendar’ service provider for the Premier League, football fans around the world receive a live and dynamic feed of game details, delivered straight to their personal calendar.

Over the last week, the Premier League fixture release campaign has been enormous!

Premier League have created splash pages, website banners, a dedicated email launch and Twitter and Facebook takeovers surrounding ECAL’s calendar syncing the fixture to fans calendars through ECAL’s service.

Our team has also been busy managing and supporting any queries with the calendar service, through online support and social media.

Fans can choose to receive fixtures of their favourite team(s), the complete season fixture, and even the Fantasy Premier League schedule of weekly trade deadlines.

The Premier League Digital Calendar is a truly global service, with displays in 30+ languages, and serves localised TV broadcast information to fans across 200+ countries, so fans never miss a moment of the action.

Match entries also include handy reminders, official game hashtags and direct access to Buy Tickets, Livestream, Match Centre, Online Shop and more.

Three new teams, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Cardiff City and Fulham, enter the Premier League competition for the 2018/19 season.

Follow your team throughout the 18/19 season and join the hundreds of thousands of football fans who rely on ECAL to stay up to date and connected to Premier League via their calendar!

 

ECAL congratulates NHL client Washington Capitals on winning the Stanley Cup last week!

The Capitals are champions of The National Hockey League for the first time since their debut in 1974. The Capitals recorded a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 5 of the finals series.

After a 44-year wait, the Washington Capitals will be celebrating a well-deserved win!

Get excited! The FIFA World Cup is near and thanks to ECAL, you can sync the schedule straight to calendar!

Choose to follow the complete tournament schedule, or just your favourite teams! So you don’t miss a moment, wherever you are.

Game entries feature a handy alert (15 mins prior for your favourite team only), plus match details, and direct access to the Match Centre, Standings, and Latest Videos via FIFA.com.

Held in Russia for the first time in history, the highly anticipated event kicks off on Thursday 14th June with the World Cup Final set for Friday 15th July.

The FIFA World Cup will feature thirty-two of the best football teams in the world, including Australia for the fifth time.

Australia will be up against France, Peru and Denmark in the highly competitive Group C, with their first match against France on June 16th at 8pm AEST.

Don’t miss any of the action of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, sync the schedule to calendar now!

South Africa, India and Sri Lanka are coming to Australian shores, with Cricket Australia releasing its 2018/19 Summer of Cricket schedule this week.

Cricket fans across the Country will enjoy more matches, new venues and a restructured international season.

For the first time, international cricket will be played on the Gold Coast; Metricon Stadium playing host to Australia’s T20 clash with South Africa. The state-of-the-art Perth Stadium and Canberra’s Manuka Oval will both host Test cricket for the first time.

The summer opens with a one-day clash between Australia and the Proteas in Perth on November 4. Perth Stadium will then host its maiden Test from December 14 when India visit. The first Test against India begins in Adelaide on December 6.

According to Cricket Australia Chief James Sunderland, “It’s a summer which will contain plenty of high-quality cricket, and some exciting new additions to the Australian cricket calendar. Overall, there are more international matches being played across more locations around the country than in previous years, and we believe this program has something for all cricket fans.”

The broadcasting of Cricket will also undergo a major change, with Channel Seven assuming control of Test and International limited overs cricket from Channel Nine. The Big Bash will also be hosted by Channel Seven in conjunction with Foxtel, replacing Channel 10.

ECAL continues to serve Cricket Australia’s vast connected calendar audience, and fans will automatically receive updates to their preferred cricket schedules straight to their personal calendar, complete with latest TV broadcast information, official game hashtags and direct access to Buy Tickets, Memberships, Online Shop and much more.

Not connected to the Cricket Australia calendar with ECAL? Don’t miss a minute of the action, sync the Australian Men’s and Women’s cricket fixtures to your calendar here

Melbourne Vixens fans, it’s here! The 2018 Suncorp Super Netball season is underway, and to make sure you don’t miss a minute of the action, sync the official Vixens schedule to your calendar, thanks to ECAL.

ECAL’s ‘Sync to Calendar’ feature provides Vixens fans with the world’s best digital calendar service. Match details are updated dynamically throughout the season, complete with broadcast information, and direct access to Tickets, Latest News, Online Shop, Social Media and lots more.

You’ll also be reminded of exclusive events including the team’s Open Training Sessions and Player Birthdays, with access to send a message to your favourite players.

Support your Melbourne Vixens throughout the 2018 Season and beyond with ECAL. Sync the Vixens fixture to your calendar now.

ECAL, the world’s leading calendar marketing solution, is proud to announce its partnership with the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body of cricket globally.

Cricket lovers throughout the world can now sync their favourite Men’s and Women’s fixtures straight to their personal calendar, so they know what’s on and when, wherever they are. With handy alerts and direct access to the ICC live Match Centre, Tickets, Latest News, Social Media and more, cricket fans will never miss a moment of the action.

For ECAL, this is yet another significant partnership with a major global sport. With an enormous audience, particularly within the Indian subcontinent, this partnership takes the ECAL service to millions of new users.

Big business, across many industries, are a perfect fit for the ECAL’s enterprise solution. With a need for high security, high levels of customisation, preferential API’s and in-depth data analysis, ECAL is the ‘go-to’ solution for enterprise business.

 

 

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The Premier League played host to ECAL Founder & CEO, Patrick Barrett and Client Services Director, Cassandra Calleja at the Emirates Stadium on Monday night (25th Sept 2017), for the match between Arsenal and West Bromwich Albion.

It was also a case of ‘Football Meets Football’ (big time!), with Barrett taking the opportunity to introduce the touring NFL team New Orleans Saints to Arsenal, for a media opportunity like no other.

In town for their weekend clash against the Miami Dolphins at Wembley Stadium, 10 Saints stars led by Drew Brees, Mark Ingram and Cam Jordan, were treated to a night out they’ll never forget, thanks to Arsenal and ECAL.

With not even a day’s notice, the New Orleans Saints players were scheduled in for a pre-match pitch walk, media interviews, photo opportunities, shirt presentation and exclusive seating.

The two leading ‘football’ organisations worked together to create huge media value, with the story picked up by major media publishers across the US and UK, including ESPN, Fox, NBC Sports, Yahoo!, The Sun, The Guardian, The Mirror, Daily Mail and others.

For the Saints, this was the perfect promotional lead-in to their upcoming game on the weekend. For Arsenal, well, if there are any Saints or NFL fans that don’t yet have a Premier League team, they may have one now!

The Arsenal social media team produced a video from the footage and released this via Facebook  (541k views), with cross-posting provided to the Saints. A longer video feature was also quickly produced for Arsenal TV, and aired across their affiliates globally.

There was also some amazing ‘user generated content’ by the players themselves. The first goal by Alexandre Lacazette was sensationally captured by Drew Brees on his mobile and posted to Instagram. It’s an awesome moment, and has had more than 60k views. There’s also some cool content from Mark Ingram and the Saints.

ECAL Founder & CEO, Patrick Barrett said “I think this is a great example of how our company is unlike any regular technology vendor. As a team, we pride ourselves in going above and beyond for the success of our partner clients, and I think when you engage in at this level, sometimes, magic happens. Kudos to the unbelievable professionalism of Arsenal. What they were able to achieve as an organisational team, on the day of a game, was pretty damn impressive.”

For the record, Arsenal defeated West Brom 2-0 with Alexandre Lacazette scoring a brace. Arsenal currently sit seventh on the Premier League table.

You can follow your Premier League team throughout the 17/18 season directly from your personal calendar via the official Premier League ‘Add to Calendar’ service, proudly powered by ECAL.

For Arsenal fans, visit Arsenal’s dedicated ECAL digital calendar service for even more great content including First Team Fixtures, Ladies Fixtures, Academy Fixture and Ticket On-sale Dates.

SANZAAR has announced the match schedule for the revamped 2018 Super Rugby tournament, powered by ECAL.

The 15-team three-conference format competitions sees each team play 16 conference matches, with eight matches within their own conference home and away, then four matches against teams from each of the other two conferences. The finals will comprise an eight team, seven match series.

The 2018 season marks the return of home and away local derbies, adding extra theatre to the race to the top of what will hopefully be an improved Australian Conference. Japanese franchise the Sunwolves have joined the conference and will play alongside the ACT Brumbies, Melbourne Rebels, Queensland Reds and NSW Waratahs.

ECAL’s ‘Add to Calendar’ button on the 2018 Super Rugby fixtures page will allow fans across the globe to sync the complete tournament schedule or favourite team(s) straight to their personal calendar program on mobile or desktop.

The 2018 Super Rugby tournament starts on Saturday 17 February when the South African Conference kicks-off. The Australian and New Zealand Conferences will kick-off a week later when the defending champions the Crusaders open the defence of their title at home against the Chiefs.

Melbourne United fans, get excited! The club has released its schedule for the 2017/18 season, powered by ECAL.

ECAL’s ‘Sync to Calendar’ feature provides United fans with the world’s best dynamic digital calendar service, so they can sync every match straight to their personal calendar program on mobile or desktop.

Basketball lovers will never miss a moment with match details updated dynamically throughout the season, with direct access to Ticketing, Latest News, Online Shop, Social Engagement and Broadcast information.

Melbourne United’s promotional campaign engaged fans across social platforms Twitter and Facebook, EDM, feature news story, home page ad display and ‘Sync to Calendar’ button on the Fixtures & Results page.

Follow Melbourne United throughout the 17/18 Season and join thousands of basketball fans who rely on ECAL to stay up-to-date and connected to their favorite team via the calendar!

Melbourne United kick starts its Championship quest with three away games and a trip to the US to play OKC, getting fans ready to roar the house down with our home game opener against The Breakers on Sunday 22 October.

Basketball is back, so don’t miss a moment and sync the fixture to your calendar now.

Melbourne City FC fans, get excited!  The club has released its schedule for the 2017/18 season, powered by ECAL.

ECAL’s ‘Sync to Calendar’ feature provides City FC fans with the world’s best dynamic digital calendar service, so they can sync the schedules of City’s First Team, W & Y League teams or Club Events straight to their personal calendar program on mobile or desktop.

Soccer lovers will never miss a moment with match details updated dynamically throughout the season, with direct access to Ticketing, Latest News, Online Shop, Social Engagement and Broadcast information. Furthermore, they will be kept up to date with all exciting member and fan events – such as Family Day powered by Big M – as well as special ticket and merchandise offers throughout the season.

Melbourne City FC’s ‘Don’t Miss a Moment’ campaign engaged fans across social platforms Twitter and Facebook, EDM, feature news story and ‘Sync to Calendar’ button on the Fixtures & Results page.

Follow Melbourne City FC throughout the 17/18 Season and join thousands of soccer fans who rely on ECAL to stay up-to-date and connected to their favorite team via the calendar!

Melbourne City FC kicks off its 2017/18 A League campaign against Brisbane Roar at AAMI Park on Friday October 6th.