Report: Football 2016–2026, Chapter 7: Commercial Strategy & Intellectual Property
This article is a summary of Chapter 7 of Football 2016–2026: The Decade that Rewrote the Rules, a report produced by World Football Summit documenting how the global football industry has changed over the past decade. A new chapter will be published each week. Download the full chapter free of charge at worldfootballsummit.com. In 2016, […]
Report: Football 2016–2026, Chapter 6: Competition Formats & Alternative Models
This article is a summary of Chapter 6, Competition Formats & Alternative Models, of Football 2016–2026: The Decade that Rewrote the Rules, a report produced by World Football Summit documenting how the global football industry has changed over the past decade. A new chapter will be published each week. Download the full chapter free of […]
New Report: Football 2016–2026, Chapter 5: Broadcasting, Rights and Distribution
This article is a summary of Chapter 5 of Football 2016–2026: The Decade that Rewrote the Rules, a report produced by World Football Summit documenting how the global football industry has changed over the past decade. A new chapter will be published each week. Download the full chapter free of charge at worldfootballsummit.com. In the […]
Report: Football 2016–2026, Chapter 4: The Business Case for Women’s Football
This article is a summary of Chapter 4 of Football 2016–2026: The Decade that Rewrote the Rules, a report produced by World Football Summit documenting how the global football industry has changed over the past decade. A new chapter will be published each week. Download the full chapter free of charge at worldfootballsummit.com. In 2016, […]
Report: Football 2016-2026, Chapter 3: The Stadium Economy
This article is a summary of Chapter 3, The Stadium Economy, of Football 2016–2026: The Decade that Rewrote the Rules, a report produced by World Football Summit documenting how the global football industry has changed over the past decade. A new chapter will be published each week. Download the full chapter free of charge at […]
New Report: Football 2016–2026 – Chapter 2: From passion project to asset class
This article is a summary of Chapter 2 of Football 2016–2026: The Decade that Rewrote the Rules, a report produced by World Football Summit documenting how the global football industry has changed over the past decade. A new chapter will be published each week. Download the full chapter free of charge at worldfootballsummit.com. In 2016, […]
New Report – Football 2016–2026: The Decade that Rewrote the Rules
When World Football Summit held its first event in Madrid in 2016, football was a different industry. Governance was in crisis, streaming had not yet disrupted broadcasting, women’s football was not a commercial conversation, and the idea of a club as a global intellectual property platform was still largely theoretical. Ten years and 33 events […]
New Report: LATAM football assets
Over the past decade, foreign capital has flowed into Latin American football at a pace the region had never seen before. More than USD 1.5 billion committed across Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay — and the deals keep coming. Mapping the foreign capital flowing into Latam football Mexico has emerged as the most attractive […]
New report: how MLS stopped being a destination and became a market
A new report by Football Benchmark and World Football Summit reveals that MLS is no longer just a league that signs global stars at the end of their careers. The data tells a different story: a league recruiting developing talent from Latin America while exporting its most promising young players to Europe’s top competitions — […]
Introducing the WFS half-time report: “The end of the captive fan”
WFS launches the Half-Time Report, a new content format designed to deliver rigorous industry analysis in fifteen minutes. Each edition takes a single theme from the conversations produced at WFS events and subjects it to in-depth editorial analysis — concise enough to read at half-time, substantial enough to reference long after. The first edition tackles […]