Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Private equity firms are quietly preparing funds to invest exclusively in the US National Football League, according to people familiar with the matter, as a potential precondition for being allowed to hold...
...MLB, along with the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League together had dozens of their clubs’ local broadcast rights contracted to Diamond Sports Group, a subsidiary of news distributor...
...The league welcomed the government’s objections to the breakaway European Super League....
...When presented with a load of football data, one does the same thing as when watching a single football match: look for the goals. Within these spreadsheets there are millions of them....
...The US National Football League and Amazon Web Services have developed a player health tool known as the Digital Athlete, which they hope may in time be able to predict and prevent injuries....
...In the US, where the women’s game has a much stronger presence, the National Women’s Soccer League — the top professional competition in the US — has spending caps and a closed league with no relegation...
...The Premier League provides worldwide entertainment yet England’s national (male) football team is still trophyless since 1966....
...across the leagues and to safeguard the heritage of English football.”...
...The agency and match promoter, which is owned by billionaire Stephen Ross, had initially sued the US Soccer Federation, the national governing body, accusing it of conspiring to block foreign leagues from...
...Last Sunday, the city’s National Football League franchise, the Ravens, narrowly lost their bid for a berth in the Super Bowl, following defeat at the hands of defending champions, the Kansas City Chiefs...
...Its creation reflects the failure of self-regulation at clubs in both the top-tier English Premier League and the English Football League, which encompasses the three leagues below....
...While private equity investors are barred from owning teams in the National Football League, the world’s richest sports division, several groups are gearing up for a possible change to the rules....
...Deloitte estimates that the club’s £220mn net debt is the biggest in English football outside the Premier League....
...in National Football League history....
...Each of the other Big Four leagues, as well as Major League Soccer and the National Women’s Soccer League, have amended bylaws since 2019 to allow for private capital stakes, hastened by a pandemic-induced...
...Bloom used his fortune to take over a football club, Brighton, and preceded Benham in lifting it to the Premier League....
...Serie A, Italy’s top football league, lags behind rivals such as the English Premier League or Spain’s La Liga in revenues and global audience....
...The revamp means that the Women’s Super League and the second-tier Championship will be owned by clubs, ending their integration with England’s Football Association....
...CVC, which has investment deals with the Spanish and French football leagues, declined to comment....
...Tottenham Hotspur is in talks to secure a “significant increase” in equity as the football club seeks to compete with deep-pocketed rivals in the English Premier League....
...Last month, the European Court of Justice found that Uefa and Fifa, football’s European and global governing bodies, had acted unlawfully when they threatened to sanction Super League clubs and their players...
...The failed European Super League project may have been the opening salvo in a longer-term battle over the future of football....
...Clubs, national leagues and fan groups quickly spoke out in support of Uefa, rejecting the idea of a new breakaway tournament....
...On Monday, US college football will crown a national champion, when the University of Michigan takes on the University of Washington....
...Saudi authorities have made their ambitions in football clear, with a desire to make the domestic league one of the top five in the world....
International Edition