London Edition Friday 18 September 2026
Football Economy The Business of the Beautiful Game
THE DESK
BVB.DE 3.03 +0.83% JUVE.MI 2.16 +2.18% SSL.MI 1.69 +0.6% AJAX.AS 8.44 +0.71% CCP.L 248.00 +0% MANU 23.53 +3.02% SLBEN.LS 6.96 +2.79% FCP.LS 3.00 +0% SCP.LS 0.96 +0% Todd Boehly exits Chelsea diminished after having his fingers burned The Guardian Will Carrick navigate choppy waters to steer Man Utd ship back on course? Sky Sports Friday briefing: Clearlake completes deal for Walter and Boehly stakes at £5 billion valuation Off The Pitch Europa League roundup: Ferencvaros pile more misery on troubled Celtic The Guardian 'We'll get ourselves together' - O'Neill confident Celtic will bounce back from EL loss Sky Sports Sloppy mistakes cost Celtic again as they lose Europa League opener Sky Sports Rai shares BMW PGA Championship lead with McIlroy three back Sky Sports FA chair demands Infantino release World Cup sell-off documents BBC Sport Parkinson's 'wriggle room' as Wrexham seek response BBC Sport Thomas Tuchel’s shot at redemption begins with England’s tricky Nations League tests The Guardian Celtic and when does financial prudence become sporting underinvestment? City A.M. Boehly’s Chelsea era over after ‘UK£950m’ stake sale to Clearlake Capital SportsPro
Governance & Regulation

MLS Odds Look Different at Canadian Sportsbooks

Three Canadian clubs, ten provincial betting regimes: why the same MLS fixture carries a different price on either side of a provincial line.
By Daniel Mercer|Editor

Three MLS clubs play their home matches in Canada, but the odds on those matches are set inside a betting market that fractures at every provincial border. A Toronto FC fixture can carry materially different prices on either side of the Ottawa River, for reasons that are regulatory rather than sporting.

One League, Ten Betting Markets Single-event wagering became legal across Canada in August 2021, when Bill C-218 stripped the parlay-only restriction out of the Criminal Code. What followed was not a national market but a provincial one. Ontario opened to commercial competition in April 2022 and now licenses several dozen…

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Listed Club Equity

Borussia DortmundXETRA: BVB.DE
3.03+0.83%
Juventus FCBorsa Italiana: JUVE.MI
2.16+2.18%
SS LazioBorsa Italiana: SSL.MI
1.69+0.6%
AFC AjaxEuronext Amsterdam: AJAX.AS
8.44+0.71%
CelticLSE / AIM: CCP.L
248.00+0%
Manchester UnitedNYSE: MANU
23.53+3.02%

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Eleanor Whitfield

Eleanor Whitfield is a chartered accountant who spent a decade auditing professional sports clubs…

Tomasz Zieliński

Tomasz Zieliński covers the business of European football, from Bundesliga ownership rules to the…

Ruth Calderwood

Ruth Calderwood writes about broadcasting deals, sponsorship and the commercial machinery of football. She…

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Club EntityRevenueListingStadiumPrimary Ownership
Real Madrid €1,045.5m (FY23/24) Private Santiago Bernabéu Member-owned (socios); Florentino Pérez president
Manchester City €837.8m (FY23/24) Private Etihad Stadium City Football Group — Abu Dhabi…
Manchester United €770.6m (FY23/24) MANU Old Trafford Glazer family; Sir Jim Ratcliffe /…
Bayern München €765.4m (FY23/24) Private Allianz Arena FC Bayern München e.V. (75%); Adidas,…
FC Barcelona €760.3m (FY23/24) Private Spotify Camp Nou Member-owned (socios); Joan Laporta president
Arsenal €716.5m (FY23/24) Private Emirates Stadium Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (100%)
Liverpool €714.7m (FY23/24) Private Anfield Fenway Sports Group; Dynasty Equity minority
Tottenham Hotspur €615.0m (FY23/24) Private Tottenham Hotspur Stadium ENIC Group (Lewis family trusts); Joe…

FY2023/24 revenue — € figures per Deloitte Football Money League 2025 or club accounts; ≈ converted from sterling.