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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Williams F1 adds banking giant to partner roster ahead of pivotal season

January 30, 2026

Banking giant BNY has joined Williams F1’s suite of blue-chip sponsors as the team steps up preparations for the 2026 season. As part of the partnership, BNY’s branding will be emblazoned on the kit of drivers Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz, and the bargeboards, chassis top and halo of the team’s FW48 car. The New [...]
Alex Yee fears Enhanced Games will be ‘dangerous’ for former GB teammates

January 29, 2026

Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee fears the Enhanced Games will be dangerous to athletes who accept big-money offers to take part in the pro-doping multi-sport competition. Two of Yee’s former Team GB colleagues, springer Reece Prescod and swimmer Ben Proud, are among those set to compete in the first edition of the Enhanced Games later [...]
Women’s Super League chief paid £531,000 as it made £2.4m loss

January 29, 2026

The highest earner at the independent company set up to run the Women’s Super League, believed to be chief executive Nikki Doucet, was paid £531,000 as it made a £2.4m loss. Accounts published by Companies House reveal the finances in the first year of Women’s Super League Football Limited, which took over management of the [...]
10 years of Laver Cup: Nerves, serves and Federer’s ‘lucky’ London farewell

January 29, 2026

Tony Godsick vividly remembers the day, exactly 10 years ago, when he and Roger Federer, his biggest client, went public with their big idea: the Laver Cup. “I was nervous,” Godsick tells City AM. “I had been in the sport for a long time already, and this concept was screaming to be done, but no [...]
LIV Golf lands Rolex partnership in major boost ahead of fifth season

January 28, 2026

LIV Golf has struck another blow in its battle for mainstream recognition by securing the backing of one of the sport’s biggest sponsors, Rolex. The luxury watch brand, which already has deals with the leading men’s and women’s majors, tours and both the Ryder and Solheim Cups, has become an official partner of the LIV [...]
Darts, private equity and fuelling the booming sport’s growth in America

January 27, 2026

Nodor Group CEO Tom Brown and PDC chief Matt Porter on private equity in darts and how to realise the sport’s potential in North America. To the south-east of Nairobi, a world away from Alexandra Palace, 2,000 Kenyans are working diligently to feed the global explosion in popularity of darts. There, at the Nodor Group’s [...]
2030 World Cup final to be held in Spain not Morocco, claims Spanish FA

January 27, 2026

Spain’s football federation, the RFEF, is confident that it will stage the final of the 2030 World Cup despite co-hosts Morocco building the biggest stadium on the planet for the tournament. RFEF president Rafael Louzan believes Morocco’s hopes of holding the final at the 115,000-capacity Grand Stade Hassan II have been dented by the country’s [...]
Lincoln City owner Ron Fowler: ‘Wrexham is a one-off but shows what can be done’

January 26, 2026

US money pouring into English football is no new phenomenon, but for an illustration of the appetite among American investors for a slice of our national game you can’t do much better than Lincoln City. A club that plays in a 130-year-old stadium and has bounced in and out of the English Football League is [...]
Former Fifa chief Sepp Blatter backs calls to boycott 2026 World Cup

January 26, 2026

Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter has endorsed calls for fans to boycott the 2026 World Cup over the US and President Trump’s domestic and international policies. Swiss lawyer Mark Pieth, who was engaged to reform Fifa under Blatter’s administration, told media last week that he advised against travelling to the States, which is staging the [...]
Drinking in stands hailed as success as more clubs join WSL pilot scheme

January 23, 2026

Women’s Super League chiefs have hailed its trialling of allowing football fans to drink alcohol in the stands as a major success as more clubs take advantage. The Fan Choice pilot was rolled out across 14 clubs in the WSL and WSL2 this season after a small-scale experiment in the second half of last term [...]

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