BEST PROFESSIONAL SERVICES COMPANY SERVING FOOTBALL
Arup
Arup is an independent, employee-owned, firm of 18,500 designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists who are committed to sustainable design and have strong history of creative design solutions for football.
Our key objective for 2024 was to respond to and address the leading challenges faced by clients: from due diligence in site acquisition and stadium design, to operational upgrades and increasing matchday revenue. Understanding the life cycle of a football business is critical here: we have supported our clients with the delivery of major construction projects but also advise on sustainability strategy and enhancing the fan experience, applying our global football expertise across all phases of a football club’s development.
In 2024, our work included developing creative and iconic competition winning football stadium designs, producing sustainability strategies for clubs and projects, supporting the delivery of major football events, driving innovation and risk mitigation in construction and delivering matchday enhancements.
Brabners
Over the past 35 years, Brabners’ sports team has cemented a position as one of the most prominent and successful in the industry, and this has largely been driven by the ongoing work of its football division.
The firm’s deep-rooted presence in the football industry combined with its diverse client base gives it a unique, multidimensional perspective on the legal and commercial challenges facing agencies, players and clubs. This enables it to provide highly strategic, pragmatic advice tailored to the realities of the modern football market.
Clients at all tiers of the game – from grassroots clubs and players to internationally renowned agencies and governing bodies – turn to the firm for its genuine sector expertise, experience and service excellence, as well as its ability to deliver strong outcomes. The firm also continues to have one eye on the future, innovating its offering so that it evolves to keep up with the latest sector trends and developments.
Whether advising on high-profile transfers, defending or commencing multi-million pound claims, or navigating the latest regulatory challenges, Brabners is trusted to deliver results for football clients in high pressure, high stakes environments.
HW Fisher
HW Fisher is a top 30 UK chartered accountancy firm providing expert accountancy, audit, tax, corporate and financial advisor services to high-profile entrepreneurial SMEs, large corporates and high net-worth individuals. We have a well-established, well regarded sports department who work predominantly with sports individuals, pundits and marketing companies.
Our clients in the sports sector lead high-pressured lives and need the reassurance of knowing their financial affairs are in safe hands. No two clients in this sector have the same requirements, so we offer a carefully tailored service to suit their individual needs.
Our team acts for our sports clients throughout their careers and beyond. We’re often heavily involved with long-term financial planning. Many of our clients will accumulate considerable wealth and our advice covers inheritance tax and wealth planning. The close relationships we develop with our clients means we are often appointed as trustees and executors.
KSS Design Group
KSS are at the forefront of innovative design in stadium, training centres and arenas. Over the last three decades we have been involved in some of the most exciting and high-profile projects in sport. Our reputation is particularly strong in football, where we have collaborated with the majority of the Premier League at various stages.
This last year we successfully pushed our reach internationally in multiple training centre projects. The challenge lies in exporting our expertise while safeguarding the unique identities and values of each club.
Our service is to adapt these principles to suit different climates, cultures, and clubs, many of which have ambitious goals but operate on budgets that may not align with Premier League standards. Balancing customisation with scalability remains a key focus as we address these complex and diverse needs.
Newfields
Newfields is the largest immigration law firm in the UK outside of the City and is nationally renowned for its expertise in sports immigration.
With a team of 25 staff spread across four offices, it distinguishes itself in the market as the only firm of its kind with a dedicated team that assists clubs and sporting governing bodies in navigating complex legal frameworks and overcoming logistical processes to enable the swift movement of high-profile athletes and their families to the UK.
The firm currently acts for 7 of the 24 clubs in the EFL Championship, marking a 38% growth in football-specific work compared to the previous year and, in 2024, facilitated the mobility of footballers to the UK with a cumulative estimated transfer value of £63.7M, in the Championship alone.
Substance
Substance is a research and technology company that helps organisations working in sport, sport for development, youth development and outdoor recreation to better understand and improve what they do. Substance have produced numerous pieces of work and in most recent times, the work Substance have produced for the EFL Trust, Liverpool FC Foundation, Brentford FC Community Sports Trust, Saints Foundation, Tottenham Hotspur Foundation and more have enabled the clubs and their charitable arms to demonstrate the fantastic impact in detail through valuations based on established and recognised SROI (Social Return on Investment) methodologies and frameworks.
