BLOG | BY CO-FOUNDER & HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ALEX IACOPONI Why Private Equities are investing in sport, where they see the value, and why clubs and leagues need financial intelligence and data. The German Football League (DFL) is going to invite investment bids for a minority stake in its overseas media rights business, according […]
BLOG | BY CHAIRMAN DICK KNIGHT In the first of three blogs from ClubView Chairman Dick Knight, we talk about how a system like ClubView could have helped during his time as Chairman at Brighton and Hove Albion. How would having a system like ClubView have helped? When I took over at Brighton, the situation […]
BLOG | BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE MATT EVERETT As sport looks to survive and emerge from the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many clubs have relied on bailouts to reduce or negate the losses incurred by continuing to play ‘behind closed doors’ or having their seasons curtailed entirely. Bailouts have come from various sources – […]
BLOG | BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE MATT EVERETT At ClubView, we have made no apologies for the fact that a big part of our motivation is protecting the sporting integrity of the football pyramid. We put our team together with a shared passion for this, and the aim of driving and facilitating change across the whole […]
BLOG | BY CO-FOUNDER ALEX IACOPONI The coronavirus pandemic had a profound impact on global sports this year, cancelling or postponing events and virtually eliminating match-day attendance at remaining fixtures. But as leagues and franchises grasp for a financial foothold, the tumult of 2020 accelerated a nascent trend in the business of sport: the influx […]
BLOG | BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE MATT EVERETT It’s one of the first questions I am always asked – understandably! What could your product do to help in the here and now? It’s a question that doesn’t surprise me, because knowing the industry as we do, we know that financial outlooks were often short term even […]
BLOG | BY DIRECTOR DR JOSEPH COOPER We are in unprecedented times at the moment. The impact COVID-19 has had on the football industry is colossal and has affected clubs up and down the league system, all the way to our grassroot clubs. Many people will claim that COVID-19 has crippled clubs, forcing them into […]
BLOG | BY CO-FOUNDER ALEX IACOPONI There have been many high profile cases of football clubs in financial crisis over the years. In the UK, the plights of clubs such as Bury and Bolton Wanderers have been well documented, and even more recently Wigan Athletic and Macclesfield Town. But even among Europe’s mega clubs there […]
BLOG | BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE MATT EVERETT “An analysis of the nature and diversity of the financial crisis facing lower league English football clubs”. No, not the title of this blog, actually the title of my dissertation submitted in 2005 at Loughborough University – “A research project submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for […]