Marc Spiegel: “Liga MX is unique because it has a major commercial engine in the US”
Marc Spiegel is the Founder and Managing Member of Innovatio Capital, the European private equity fund that in 2025 acquired Club Querétaro from Grupo Caliente for a figure close to USD 120 million. The deal made Innovatio one of the most notable new entrants in Latin American football: a fund with a clear thesis — […]
Vuelve el programa de becas de WFS y Johan Cruyff Institute
Johan Cruyff Institute y World Football Summit lanzan una nueva edición del programa de becas formativas con el objetivo de impulsar el liderazgo femenino en la industria del fútbol. En una iniciativa conjunta para fomentar el desarrollo profesional de futuras líderes en el sector del deporte, Johan Cruyff Institute y World Football Summit (WFS) anuncian […]
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 — […]
Back in play: Wera Kuri kicks off community pitch renovation in Mexico City with Comex, WFS and Zucaritas
Work has begun on the renovation of a five-a-side football pitch in the Tizapán neighbourhood of Álvaro Obregón. The initiative is led by former professional footballer Paola ‘Wera’ Kuri, in collaboration with Comex, Zucaritas and World Football Summit, and aims to reclaim a public community space through sport, art and civic participation. The project is […]
The WFS Properties Programme: a dedicated experience for clubs, leagues and federations
Ten years ago, World Football Summit started with a conviction: that the football industry needed a space of its own. A place where the people running the game could meet, exchange ideas and build the relationships that move the business forward. Today, with 32 events across 11 countries and a global community of more than […]
Kike Levy: “Football is the infrastructure for community, identity and belonging”
“Football is the infrastructure for community, identity, and belonging” – that is how Kike Levy frames the asset he has spent his career building around. Levy is CEO of Gameday by NJF, the sports and media investment platform of NJF Holdings, founded by entrepreneur and investor Nicole Junkermann. Before that, he spent nearly 17 years […]
WFS and FutbolJobs Renew Strategic Partnership to Scale the JobMatch Experience
The football industry’s growth is driving an increasing demand for specialised management talent. To address this, World Football Summit and FutbolJobs have renewed their strategic partnership to deliver the JobMatch by FutbolJobs programme. Following its consolidation in Europe, the initiative is confirmed for the 2026 calendar at both WFS Mexico City and WFS Europe in […]
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 […]
N3xt Sports CEO Mounir Zok on the AI readiness gap in sports: “AI is exposing structural weaknesses in how data is treated”
While elite sports properties showcase innovation on the pitch, a significant operational gap persists behind the scenes. N3XT Sports CEO, Mounir Zok, argues that many organisations are currently “flying blind,” deploying tactical AI tools on top of fragmented legacy systems rather than building a strategic data architecture. In this interview — the first in The […]
The WFS Awards introduce Best Content Creator, presented by TikTok
The way football is watched, shared, and felt has changed. A generation of fans no longer follows the game through traditional broadcasters or the back pages — they follow it through the people who live it, film it, and tell it in their own voice. Content creators have become one of the most powerful forces […]