11 Mar 2010
Why buy a Scottish club?
Why buy a Scottish football club like Rangers when a number of English clubs are potentially available at knockdown prices? Television revenue in Scotlaand is a fraction of the amount received in England. Stephen Morrow,
21 Dec 2009
Major European Clubs Kit Suppliers and Shirt Sponsors - 2009-10
Table showing the offical kit suppliers and shirt sponsors of thirty of the largest European professional football clubs during season 2009/10. Concerning kit suppliers, Adidas were associated with ten of the clubs, nine of the clubs were
15 Nov 2009
Big Blow for Scottish Football
Scottish football has suffered a big blow after the Premiership effectively ruled out Celtic or Rangers ever joining the competition. The Old Firm have been eyeing Premiership membership as a possible escape route from their financial troubles
01 Oct 2009
Top 20 Scottish Football Clubs by Average Attendance - 2006-07 to 2008-09
Celtic, with over 57,000 spectators per dometic league match, headed the list of the top 20 Scottish Football Clubs as ranked by average match attendance in 2008/09. They were closely followed by cross-town rivals Rangers who averaged just under
01 Oct 2009
Top 30 European Football Clubs by Match Attendances 2008-09
Manchester United headed the list of top 30 European football clubs as ranked by average match attendances - domestic league matches only spectator numbers - in season 2008/09. Second ranked was Borussia Dortmund and third Real Madrid. Within the
24 Aug 2009
Price Takers Rather Than Price Makers
Football clubs are becoming price takers rather than price makers when it comes to shirt sponsorship deals. Sport+Markt, the sports consultancy, estimates that the value of shirt sponsorship deals in the Premiership fell from £69.2m during the
23 Aug 2009
Celtic's Exit Strategy Stalls
Faced with an early exit from this year's Champions League, Celtic's strategy to overcome what their chairman calls the 'Setanta effect' has been badly dented. Former Home Secretary John Reid has warned that much of Scottish football was now '
20 Jul 2009
Old Firm Blast TV Deal
Celtic and Rangers are unhappy with a television deal with Sky-ESPN approved by two-thirds of the Scottish Premier clubs which more or less halves the revenue received from Setanta. Instead of £125m over four years the SPL had to accept £65m
05 Jul 2009
Real Madrid Supremo Demands European Super League
Florentino Pérez, the recently elected big-spending president of Real Madrid, wants a European Super League and is ready to take on Uefa if they do not adapt the Champions League to better suit the ambitions of the biggest clubs. 'We have to
27 Apr 2009
Wenger Hits Out At Tax Changes
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said that the era of foreign domination in the Premiership will 'soon be over' due to the declining value of the pound, which makes transfer fees more expensive, and the imposition in last week's Budget of a 50
