Sport business quiz 2025: Test your knowledge with City AM’s topical teasers December 24, 2025 Quiz fans, have you been paying attention to the ever-changing sport business landscape in 2025? We at City AM have been breathlessly documenting it and have devised a test to see how much you remember. If you think you know your Hundred auctions from your Formula 1 minority sales and your record breaking NBA team [...]
Financial stability before glory: Why professional sport must grow up December 24, 2025 Professional sport has never looked richer or felt more fragile. Revenues are growing, valuations are rising, and private capital is circling like never before. Yet beneath the surface, financial fragility remains endemic. Too many clubs – across football, rugby, cricket and beyond – are one bad season, one failed owner, or one missed broadcast deal [...]
Purton and Shum hope to print the Christmas Cash at Sha Tin December 24, 2025 RACING in Hong Kong has come thick and fast over the Christmas and New Year period – five meetings in the past fortnight – and resumes again at Sha Tin on Saturday with a 10-race programme. With a mixed bag of action, including three on the all-weather surface and seven on turf, racing enthusiasts will [...]
Magnifique can Star on reappearance for Hall December 24, 2025 MANFRED Man’s ROBOT STAR is worth supporting in the TaiTan Handicap (7.35am) over seven furlongs. The well-bred son of Extreme Choice was well supported on his debut following some encouraging trials, and after missing the start ran on strongly in the closing stages to finish fourth to highly regarded Majestic Valour over six furlongs. That [...]
US investors buy stakes in Liga MX’s Club America and Azteca Stadium in $490m enterprise value deal December 24, 2025 US investors have purchased stakes in Mexican football team Club America and the iconic Azteca Stadium in a $490m enterprise value deal to go into Mexican football just months before the 2026 Fifa World Cup. In a joint statement to the Mexican stock exchange — Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV) — a new entity known as [...]
Why sports districts like Birmingham City’s are the future of stadiums December 24, 2025 On-pitch glory will always be the ultimate prize, but ambitious sports investors are now looking beyond traditional matchday revenues and exploring ways to diversify income, enabling reinvestment into areas that support on-pitch performance and secure a more robust future. This strategic shift also recognises that sport, particularly its physical infrastructure, presents a powerful opportunity for [...]
Exclusive: NBA Europe to woo sponsors at swanky London summit next month December 23, 2025 The NBA will roll out the red carpet for a sales pitch to potential commercial partners of its proposed new European basketball league next month in London. Senior executives from the US sports behemoth will host the event at one of the capital’s swankiest hotels on 19 January, the day after the Memphis Grizzlies and [...]
Serie A overseas game cancellation is early Christmas present, say football fans December 23, 2025 Football fans’ groups across the world have celebrated the cancellation of plans to export a Serie A match between AC Milan and Como overseas just weeks before the fixture. Milan and Como had been due to fly halfway around the world to play in Perth, Australia, on 8 February, in what would have been a [...]
Champ clubs demand divorce payment from RFU over Prem franchise plan December 23, 2025 The Rugby Football Union is facing the threat of legal action from Champ clubs if the RFU Council approves a proposal from the Prem to become a franchise league with no promotion from the second tier. City AM has learned that the Champ Rugby board held an emergency meeting with clubs last week at which [...]
The Punter Podcast Episode 63: Christmas Racing Special December 22, 2025 Tom Marriott is joined by Bill Esdaile for his best bets of the busy Christmas racing schedule, highlighted by the King George at Kempton on Boxing Day. Plus, Wally Pyrah dials in to preview the racing at Happy Valley in Hong Kong on Tuesday 23 December. Merry Christmas! The Punter ‘The Punter’ has been City [...]