Championship play-off final: Hull or Middlesbrough stand to gain £200m Sport Business Hull City and Middlesbrough will be fighting for a £200m revenue windfall this weekend in the Championship play-off final, according to Deloitte. The Tigers and Boro head to Wembley Stadium on Saturday after a week marred by Southampton’s “Skygate” looking for a spot in next season’s Premier League. And Big Four firm Deloitte’s Sports Business [...]
Championship play-off final may be postponed over spygate, EFL admits Sport Business The EFL have not ruled out postponing the Championship play-off final between Hull and Southampton over recent spygate accusations. Southampton’s semi-final opponents Middlesbrough lodged a complaint with the Championship’s governing body after a man was spotted outside of Boro’s training ground with a camera. Southampton were charged with breaching EFL regulations after Middlesbrough’s complaint but [...]
West Brom vow to fight as EFL probe threatens relegation from Championship Sport Business West Bromwich Albion have confirmed reports that a financial investigation could torpedo their bid to avoid relegation to the third tier for the first time since 1993. A seven-match unbeaten run has helped West Brom to climb out of the Championship’s bottom three and they now sit two points above the relegation zone with four [...]
Millwall stadium development inches closer with 999-year lease deal March 20, 2026 Millwall’s stadium development plans jumped forward on Friday with a 999-year lease for The Den officially signed off by government officials. The south London club secured a deal with Lewisham Council back in 2024, with long-term ambitions for the development of their South Bermondsey relying on the club’s future being at The Den. Plans for [...]
Birmingham City: How Wagner and West Mids Mayor unlocked stadium plan March 11, 2026 Last year, at the end of January, the Mayor of the West Midlands Richard Parker picked up the phone to Birmingham City owner Tom Wagner to hear a football club shareholder frustrated with the public interest surrounding the construction of a new arena for Manchester United rather than his stadium project in Britain’s second city. [...]
Championship play-offs: More clubs to get shot at football’s richest game March 5, 2026 English clubs have been given an extra chance to win the richest game in football after teams in the EFL approved a change to the format of the Championship play-offs. From next season, the play-offs will expand from four teams to six – meaning clubs will only have to finish in the top eight of [...]
Premier League facing Easter weekend football blackout March 3, 2026 The Premier League and Championship are set to voluntarily be without football over an Easter weekend for the first time this century. Football’s global governing body Fifa has modified the 2027 spring international break to include Good Friday and Easter Monday next March in a move that will hit the two top tiers of English [...]
Premier League’s smallest stadium gets approval to begin £90m rebuild January 22, 2026 AFC Bournemouth have been granted planning permission for the first phase of a £90m redevelopment that will increase capacity at the Vitality Stadium to more than 20,000. The club, whose 11,000-seat ground is the smallest in the Premier League, have been given the green light for “enabling works”, the first of three phases of improvements [...]
Premier League boom ‘masking’ English football’s financial woes, says BDO January 21, 2026 The Premier League’s record revenues and transfer spending are masking deepening financial worries lower down the English football pyramid, according to a new report from BDO. The business advisory firm’s annual survey of finance directors at clubs in the top four divisions found that 90 per cent expected to report pre-tax trading losses for 2025. [...]
Londoner’s bid for rugby league’s Salford Red Devils has six-figure backing December 9, 2025 A Londoner who played for Salford Red Devils has said he has six-figure backing for a bid to rescue his fallen former club. Mason Caton-Brown has submitted an offer to buy the former Super League team after they were liquidated with debts of around £4m, ending a 152-year history in rugby league. His Salford Red [...]