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.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 2 – The summer transfer window slammed shut on Thursday night with the most expensive ever deadline-day signing in Manchester United’s eye-watering £82 million purchase of Brazilian winger Antony from Ajax.
By Samindra Kunti
September 1 – Redbird Capital, the investment firm with ties to the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, has acquired Italian giants AC Milan for $1.2 billion.
August 31 – Helsingør FC have returned to Danish ownership after the American consortium led by Jordan Gardner decided to relinquish control.
August 24 – The German Football League (DFL) has returned for a second pass at the private equity markets, this time bringing in Deutsche Bank as its advisors on the potential sale of a broadcast rights package.
August 23 – FC Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus are among ten European elite clubs that may face sanctions for breaching Financial Fair Play rules.
August 23 – Manchester United owners the Glazer family are considering selling a share of future TV income to raise £200 million.
August 23 – Russian oil firm Lukoil has acquired Russian Premier League club Spartak Moscow as well as the club’s home venue, the Spartak Stadium.
August 23 – Sport Republic, the London-based investment firm which majority owns Premier League Southampton, has agreed to buy a 70% shareholding in Turkish second tier club Göztepe S.K.
August 17 – Leon Musk, the world’s richest man, may have been joking when he tweeted about his interest in buying Manchester United but another billionaire is reported to be deadly serious.
August 18 – In the dark depths of the covid pandemic football clubs were forced to lock out their fans. But even without match day revenues, the European football market grew by 10% (€2.4billion) in 2020/21 to €27.6 billion.