Event bidding
How a city bids for a major sporting event
A bid for a major sporting event is not a single purchase. It is a cascade of separate financial commitments—feasibility studies, rights fees, contractual guarantees, and operating obligatio
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Sport business
Sport business in this section means the paperwork: shirt sponsorship, stadium naming rights, club accounts and the way a city bids for a major event. Each piece follows the money through one document type rather than quoting a headline figure. The 2008–09 press archive of the Manchester World Sport programme runs alongside, releases and partner records intact.
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Naming rights
Why stadium names keep changing hands
RCD Espanyol ripped the Stage Front name off its stadium barely two years after bolting it on. The Spanish club had signed a five-season deal in March 2023, then terminated it in 2026 for no
Club accounts
What a club’s accounts say that the league table does not
The annual report is where a football club becomes a company. Turn to the filed accounts for West Ham United Football Club Limited and you will not find goals conceded or points accumulated;
Sponsorship
Where shirt sponsorship money actually goes
A £50 million shirt sponsorship headline does not land in a club's bank account as £50 million of spendable cash. Under IFRS 15, the accounting standard that governs how football clubs recog
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How Manchester Sports Fans Turn Big Games Into Big Nights Out
Simple guide to plan your Manchester matchday—routes, food, pubs, budgets, safety, and optional responsible betting—so a big game becomes a big night out.
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Press archive
To download a selection of images that can be used to help promote Manchester World Sport, check out our photo library. For copyright free text about Manchester's sporting legacy by sports w
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Partners
MANCHESTER WORLD SPORT PARTNERS Visit Manchester Visit Manchester is the tourist board for Greater Manchester and a division of Marketing Manchester, the agency charged with
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Pledge Gallery
Archive video on YouTube from the 2008–09 programme Archive video on YouTube from the 2008–09 programme Archive video on YouTube from the 2008–09 programme Archive video on YouTube from the
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Pledge
Manchester is a host city in England’s 2018 FIFA World Cup™ bid Manchester is proud to stake a claim for a share of the glory if the football World Cup comes to England. Our bid to
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terms and conditions
Terms and Conditions: 1. This competition is not open to employees of Marketing Manchester & Visit Manchester or any agency or company connected with this competition or family members
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Manchester Rugby 7s - Samurai take the Cup!
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VisitManchester
MANCHESTER WORLD SPORT PARTNERS Visit Manchester Visit Manchester is the tourist board for Greater Manchester. It was created in January 2008 and is a division of Marketing
The 2008 programme, as the closing release reported it
£23mgenerated for the city economy
2009year the figure was published
6press releases kept in the archive
Source: Press release, 28 May 2009
Financial figures are quoted from the filing or release named in the piece and are not updated afterwards.