#btsia: British Sport In Numbers
2013 was a busy year in the business of sport. Premier League clubs spent a record £630 million on transfer fees in the summer – a 29% increase on 2012. Real Madrid overtook Manchester United to be named the most valuable team in world football by Forbes at $3.3 billion.
Andy Murray earned £1.6 million in prize money for winning Wimbledon – quite an increase from the £10 or zero, depending on which source you believe, that Fred Perry took home in 1936. But then 17.3 million viewers watched Murray’s win in the UK – including a 90% share of the total viewing audience in Scotland.
Elsewhere north of the border, golf’s Open Championship delivered a total economic benefit of £70 million in the East Lothian and Edinburgh regional economy.
458,483 people attended the Rugby League World Cup in one of 21 stadiums in England, Wales and France. The NBA sold out The O2 Arena in one morning – its eighth consecutive sell-out at the venue – and the NFL packed out Wembley for two games and announced more to follow. Sport England began a four-year cycle in which it will invest more than £400 million into 46 NGBs and UK Sport increased its investment in winter sport ahead of Sochi to a total of £14.2 million.
But the only number that matters if you’ve read this far is there are only ten tables left at the BT Sport Industry Awards before the industry’s flagship event on 8th May is SOLD OUT. Don’t miss out on seeing who was the best of the best and used their investment to change their business – SECURE YOUR PLACE NOW.
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