The Soccer Business

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. For brand partnerships, request our Media Kit. Hi Reader, At this time of year, with the news slowing down, it is traditional for publications to offer up a ‘review of the year’. However, we know that our readers are all in the business of looking forward and so that is what we have decided to do for our final edition of the year. We look at what the industry should be focusing on in 2026 - the biggest challenges, the key...

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. For brand partnerships, request our Media Kit. Hi Reader, Welcome to this week's Soccer Business Newsletter and a special welcome, after a flurry of new sign-ups, to all our new subscribers. This week we have the just-released, pretty positive numbers on MLS Cup broadcasts and our podcast features an in-depth look at the U.S strategy of Germany's Bundesliga - and their deep partnership with NY based Relevent Sports. We...

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. For brand partnerships, request our Media Kit. Hi Reader, Welcome to this week's Soccer Business Newsletter and a special greeting to our new subscribers. The World Cup draw was held earlier today in Washington D.C. and suddenly the tournament feels so much closer - we take a look at one aspect of the FIFA event that often flies under the radar -- hosting the team base camps and the economic benefit that comes from having...

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. For brand partnerships, request our Media Kit. Hi Reader, Welcome to this week's Soccer Business Newsletter. As always a special welcome to our new subscribers. This week we look at one of the big challenges facing the NWSL as they head into their Championship game on Saturday with their top star Trinity Rodman about to become a free agent and the subject of interest from big-spending English clubs and......a USL team?...

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. For brand partnerships, request our Media Kit. Hi Reader, Well, this has certainly been a busy week of soccer business news gathering and networking. I went straight from an awesome weekend with the Bundesliga in Berlin, taking in the incredible atmosphere at Union Berlin for their entertaining 2-2 draw with Bayern Munich, into three days of back-to-back events, discussions and meetings at Soccerex in Miami, where I was...

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. For brand partnerships, request our Media Kit. Hi Reader, Welcome to this week's newsletter which, I am writing from Berlin where I am with a group of media learning more about the Bundesliga's international strategy and taking a look at the NFL's own global initiatives as they hold a game in the German capital on Sunday. More about all that in next week's newsletter. It's a busy time for The Soccer Business with Soccerex...

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. For brand partnerships, request our Media Kit. Hi Reader, Welcome to this week's newsletter and as always a special thanks to our new subscribers - welcome to the club! We have had plenty of reports over the weeks on ambitious and exciting new stadium plans, but as many club owners know only too well, getting from proposal to bricks and mortar is no easy matter and this week we have some news on the challenges being faced...

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. For brand partnerships, request our Media Kit. Hi Reader, What a week this has been so far - there's been so much North American soccer business news in the past few days that it didn't make sense to wait until Friday for the newsletter - so here we are a little earlier to keep you up to speed with it all. In the past two days we have had the announcement of a four-nation bid from this region for the 2031 Women's World Cup...

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. For brand partnerships, request our Media Kit. Hi Reader, Welcome to this week's newsletter and as always a special welcome to our new readers. Thanks for coming on board. If you want a sense of the state of the soccer business in the U.S. - this has been a week in which no fewer than three new American clubs have been announced - in the state of New York, in Florida and Nevada. We have the details for you here. It is...