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The combined revenue of English Premier League (EPL) clubs is considered to have exceeded £6bn in the 2022/2023 season.

Back in 2019, our blog discussed the findings by the disciplinary commission that Birmingham City FC had breached the English Football League’s (EFL) FFP rules around profitability and sustainability.

The use of video assistant referee technology (“VAR”) has become commonplace in the global football landscape. VAR allows referees to use enhanced video review to determine if a call made on the field was correct or incorrect.

In June 2021, Polokwane City FC (Polokwane City) brought an urgent review application before the Gauteng High Court.

2020/2021 was a season unlike any other. With the Premier League having to react to COVID-19 restrictions and also respond to the “European Super League” fall-out, what become apparent was the resurgence of the power of the fans. We analyse this trend, and other ownership trends we have identified and we suggest how these trends can be used to predict what might come next for EPL clubs.

With world football focused on the continuing disruption caused by COVID-19, attention has (for now) been diverted away from a series of regulatory reforms concerning football agents which were approved by the FIFA Council in October 2019.

Although UK soccer fans are currently consigned to watching their team virtually, they can now access more detailed data on player performance than ever before.

On 4 June 2020 Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium Ltd (THS) announced that it had issued £175 million of commercial paper under the Bank of England’s Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF).

With the exception of Belarus, league football across Europe came to a halt in mid-March due to the outbreak of COVID-19.

The English Premier League (EPL) is fast approaching the end of its third decade, having begun in 1992. 12 of the original 22 EPL teams from 1992 are still in the EPL.