By: Frank Dalleres

Sports Editor Frank Dalleres is Sports Editor of City AM. He has almost two decades' experience covering the business of sport and has reported from Olympic Games and major international football, rugby union, tennis and golf competitions, both at home and abroad. Get in touch with stories and tip-offs and follow him on X at @frankdalleres

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Grand Slam Track denies Michael Johnson banked $2m from series

September 17, 2025

Grand Slam Track has called “categorically false” suggestions that founder Michael Johnson earned $2m while competitors in the challenger athletics series went unpaid. The organisation, which is facing possible legal claims from athletes totalling $19m (£14m), said that Johnson had in fact invested $2m of his own money into the cash-strapped venture. Grand Slam Track [...]
Manchester United record sixth consecutive loss despite cuts

September 17, 2025

Manchester United have reported a loss for the sixth consecutive year although their financial performance did improve in 2024-25 thanks to record revenue of £666.5m. United made a net loss of £33m, taking the club’s total losses to £391m since 2019-20, although that was markedly down on the previous year’s £131m deficit. Revenue grew by [...]
Super League Basketball insists season will go ahead despite ref appeal

September 16, 2025

Super League Basketball chiefs insist the new season will tip off as planned this weekend despite making a late appeal for qualified referees to come forward. In an email seen by City AM and believed to have been sent on Tuesday morning, SLB’s operations coordinator Nick Hill contacted refs who officiated in pre-season games, some [...]
Non-league football clubs set for World Cup windfall from Fifa

September 16, 2025

Non-league football clubs are set for financial windfalls after changes were made to the way Fifa distributes its compensation for the release of international players for the World Cup. The changes, agreed by Fifa and the European Club Association, mean that all teams who release players for the 2026 World Cup or its qualifiers will [...]
European T20 Premier League: Is this cricket’s next growth market?

September 16, 2025

When Italy’s men secured their historic qualification for next year’s T20 World Cup earlier this summer, the cheers reached all the way to India. Over in the subcontinent, a group backed by Bollywood royalty toasted the news as proof of their belief that European cricket is a largely untapped well of talent – and, more [...]
Netflix reveals Crawford-Canelo drew fewer viewers than Taylor-Serrano

September 16, 2025

Netflix says 41.4m viewers watched Terence Crawford beat Canelo Alvarez at the weekend, a smaller audience than the streamer pulled for a Katie Taylor fight last year. Underdog Crawford’s unanimous points victory over Canelo, for the undisputed super middleweight title, drew an estimated average minute audience of 36.6m watching live, rising to 41.4m when accounting [...]
Triathlon on the march: Why investors are piling into niche sport

September 16, 2025

Anyone keeping a keen eye on the flow of private money into sports can’t fail to have noticed that, in among the multi-billion-pound football club acquisitions, white-ball cricket investments and putative new rugby competitions, triathlon has become a hot ticket. Ironman, the sport’s biggest brand, last week trumpeted what it believes is the single most [...]
GBBL confirms delay to 2027 as British basketball plan suffers setback

September 15, 2025

GBBL, the organisation awarded the long-term licence to run the top British basketball league from next year, has confirmed that it has delayed its launch until 2027. It comes amid a continued legal battle between the British Basketball Federation and incumbent competition Super League Basketball, which has prompted world governing body Fiba to step in [...]
British Basketball Federation and SLB clubs welcome Fiba intervention

September 15, 2025

The British Basketball Federation and Super League Basketball clubs have welcomed Fiba’s decision to establish a taskforce to help resolve the bitter dispute splitting the sport. World governing body Fiba has intervened following months of civil war over the British professional game, which has plunged the future of the club game into uncertainty. In a [...]
Blenheim Palace Triathlon bought by Brownlee-backed Supertri

September 15, 2025

Supertri, the triathlon brand that’s home to Team GB stars Jonny Brownlee and Alex Yee, has acquired the Blenheim Palace Triathlon. The Blenheim Palace Triathlon is the UK’s biggest swim-bike-run race, featuring around 7,000 competitors, and takes place on a Unesco World Heritage Site. It means that Supertri now owns two of the world’s five [...]

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