Why Chelsea have hardest and Arsenal easiest Champions League trips August 30, 2025 The exotic away trips offered by the Champions League are part of its appeal for supporters but they can come at a price for players, and in that respect Arsenal and Chelsea have been dealt wildly differing hands by this year’s competition. Thursday’s draw for the league phase gave Arsenal trips to Inter Milan (for [...]
Premier League spending hurtles towards £3bn mark August 29, 2025 Alexander Isak’s on-off transfer from Newcastle United to Liverpool will not be of interest only to fans and bean-counters on Tyneside and Merseyside. The protracted deal is also one for the transfer data crunchers and historians of English football’s top flight, given that it could represent the passing of multiple financial milestones. Isak’s transfer fee [...]
Premier League fans prepare to rack up air miles in Champions League August 27, 2025 Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur fans could be racking up the air miles this season in the Champions League after far-flung Kairat Almaty and Bodo/Glimt booked their spots in the league phase. The same applies to supporters of Liverpool, Manchester City and Newcastle United as the Premier League will have an unprecedented six clubs in [...]
Premier League: What to look out for to avoid football ticket scams August 15, 2025 Football fans are being advised to beware of pressure tactics and to double check sender information to avoid falling victims to scams when buying match tickets for the upcoming Premier League season. It comes as football fans have lost £2.5m to scammers over the last two seasons, according to data from Lloyds in association with [...]
Everton top Premier League table for fan engagement August 12, 2025 Everton are the best Premier League club for fan engagement, research shared with City AM reveals. The Fan Engagement Index 2024-25 has ranked The Toffees 10th in the country, making them the highest scoring club from English football’s top league. The Fan Engagement Index has been published by Think Fan Engagement (TFE) every year since [...]
Birmingham Phoenix tee up Castore as Hundred teams ditch New Balance August 6, 2025 Birmingham Phoenix have agreed a kit deal with Castore for next season, with The Hundred’s long-term apparel supplier, New Balance, increasingly being phased out by the franchises that are under new ownership. City AM revealed last week that London Spirit are also dropping New Balance after the current campaign, with their new co-owners, Cricket Investor [...]
Daniel Levy: Man City verdict taken far too long and multi-club needs controls August 4, 2025 Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has called for a swift conclusion to Manchester City’s legal battle with the Premier League, saying the process “has gone on for far too long”. Less than two weeks before the start of a new top-flight season, more than 100 charges that City breached financial rules remain unresolved, despite an [...]
Three Lions fans snap up 2026 World Cup packages… in three days July 23, 2025 Hospitality tickets to watch England at next summer’s World Cup sold out within three days of being put on sale last week, with fans eager to secure the right to follow Thomas Tuchel’s side in the US, Canada and Mexico at the first opportunity. Fifa released hospitality packages last Monday for the group and first [...]
Premier League on track to smash £2.4bn summer spending record July 16, 2025 Premier League clubs are on course to smash all previous spending records this summer after exceeding £1bn in gross outlay on transfers quicker than ever before. Club World Cup winners Chelsea and domestic champions Liverpool have been the biggest spenders, with the Blues shelling out more than £200m and the Reds breaking the British transfer [...]
Chelsea named top talent producers in Premier League June 2, 2025 Chelsea may have spent more than £1bn on transfers since the Todd Boehly-Clearlake takeover but the club’s talent factory leads the way in producing Premier League players. The famed Cobham academy was responsible for more players and more minutes played than any other in the top division last season, underlining the value of developing homegrown [...]