By Alex Miller  30 July 2018                                                          This article was updated on 14 August with a new graphic Premier League clubs have broken their own record for combined shirt sponsorship deals, […]

By Alex Miller  25 July 2017 Premier League clubs have smashed their own record for combined shirt sponsorship deals, with the 20 clubs generating £281.8 million for the 2017-18 season, a rise of more than £55m on last year. The increase underlines the commercial strength of the League with shirt sponsorships close to trebling in seven years. The combined total in 2010-11, when Sportingintelligence […]

By Alex  Miller 16 October 2016 Manchester United have regained their status as the world’s most popular football club by sales of official replica shirts according to authoritative new research. The Old Trafford club sold an average of 1.75m shirts per year in the five-season period from 2011-12 to 2015-16 inclusive. That puts them in the […]

By Alex Miller and Nick Harris 31 July 2016 Premier League clubs have set a record for combined shirt sponsorship deals, with the 20 clubs generating £226.5 million for the 2016-17 season, a rise of £3.6m on last year. The increase underlines the commercial strength of the League with shirt sponsorships more than doubling in six years. The […]

By Brian Sears 24 December 2015 Christmas is a time for reflection and a time to look forward and neither offers any merriment for Aston Villa. Ten points away from safety as things stand, they can look to no precedent in the Premier League era (the ‘monied’ era, since 1992) for a club with single-digit points at Christmas […]

By Alex Miller                                                            20 July 2015 Chelsea and Liverpool’s new shirt sponsorship deals have helped push the combined total value for Premier League shirt deals through […]

By Nick Harris 11 May 2015 Sporting Intelligence is pleased to announce a new partnership with sports compression wear company SKINS that will help to maintain this website’s independence – and help to enable the provision of some project funding for young and upcoming sports writers. The new alliance comes on the heels of www.sportingintelligence.com […]

By Alex Miller and Nick Harris                                                             28 July 2014 Manchester United’s £47 million-per-year shirt sponsorship deal with Chevrolet has helped boost the combined shirt sponsorship […]

* By Alex Miller                                                                   Follow Alex on Twitter @AlexMiller73 22 July 2014 Despite Premier League clubs collecting massively enhanced payments last season, […]

By Alex Miller 2 June 2014 The Premier League 2013-14 season attracted the highest average gates in top-division football in England in 64 years, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The average number of tickets sold per game was 36,695 last season – the highest figure in the Premier League era and the biggest in England’s top division […]