October 10 – Expanding a club ownership portfolio that includes Paris Saint-Germain and KAS Eupen, Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) have acquired a minority stake in Portuguese club Braga.
October 20 – Erling Haaland may be the hottest striker in world football at the moment but Kylian Mbappé is still the most valuable footballer at €222.9 million according to data from the Football Benchmark team.
October 6 – American investment firm 777 Partners has acquired a stake in the Australian A-League club Melbourne Victory, expanding its ownership portfolio.
September 21 – A stunning 17 out 20 Premier League clubs have overpaid on their transfer dealings since July 2022 as agents, selling clubs and in many cases massively under-performing players have shamelessly cashed in on the Premier League’s economic prosperity. A mugging of English clubs of more than €1.3 billion.
September 21 – Scottish giants Celtic have reported a revenue increase to £88.2 million for the year ending June 2022, an uplift of 45% on the previous year where it was still battling the financial restrictions resulting from covid.
September 20 – Barcelona have announced profits of €98 million for the 2021-22 campaign and predict they will make another €271 million in the current season – despite crippling debts that at one stage delayed them from registering all their summer signings for this season.
September 19 – Bournemouth could be the next Premier League club to fall under US ownership after reports in the US and England that a Las Vegas-led consortium had bid for the club.
September 16 – Private equity group Silver Lake has become the second-largest shareholder in City Football Group (CFG), upping their stake to 14.5%.
September 15 – Norwich City, battling for a return to the Premier League having been relegated last season, are the latest English club to attract US investors.
September 14 – Real Madrid is reporting a €13 million profit for the financial year 2021/22 on a turnover of €722 million. The is a €69 million increase in tunover on the previous year.
September 12 – FC Barcelona’s spending cap has been raised by €800 million to €656 million after the sale of club assets, the Spanish topflight La Liga confirmed.
September 9 – American investment firm Common Group has acquired Dutch top flight club Vitesse Arnhem after Russian owner Valeri Oyf departed because of the war in Ukraine.
September 7 – LiveScore Group, who have driven their footprint in the football market with the real time delivery of match scores globally, has taken a £50 million investment from Swiss media and technology giant Ringier, valuing the LiveScore business at £500 million.
September 6 – Over the past ten years, the English Premier League clubs have accumulated a transfer deficit of -€9.5 billion, dwarfing the next highest deficit of a Big 5 league, Italy’s Serie A, of 1.4 billion. In contrast France’s Ligue 1 clubs have a positive balance of €350 million – despite PSG’s negative balance of €868 million.
September 4 – UEFA has hammered eight of Europe’s biggest clubs with fines totalling €172 million. Big spending Paris St Germain were hardest hit with fines of €65 million.