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Sports finance
Sport is financed in ways that suit its income: broadcast and prize money, sponsorship, season tickets and venues. Atlas works with specialist sports lenders, banks and private credit funds across every sport, and prepares the case so each lender sees exactly what it needs.
For transfer fee funding, central-distribution advances and club lending in the Premier League, EFL, SPFL, Portugal and Spain, see football finance.
What it's used for
- Club and franchise funding, refinancing and acquisitions
- Advances against media rights, prize money and sponsorship
- Season-ticket and membership finance
- Stadium, training-ground and academy property
- Padel, golf, tennis and leisure venue development and fit-out
- Events and touring finance
What lenders look at
- Contracted income: broadcast, central distributions, sponsorship
- League rules, financial-fair-play limits and ownership tests
- Venue ownership or lease and its value
- The owners and their funding commitments
- For venues, utilisation, membership and pricing
What you'll need to send
You don't need everything on day one. Start with what you have; Atlas tells you what's missing as the deal is prepared.
- Latest accounts and current-season forecasts
- Copies of key income contracts
- Details of existing loans and security
- Ownership structure
- For venues: site details, planning and build costs
How Atlas handles it
- Describe the deal. In your own words, online or on WhatsApp. Rough figures are fine.
- We underwrite it. Atlas checks the figures, asks the questions lenders will ask, and builds a complete pack.
- We match it. Your deal goes to the lenders on our panel whose criteria it fits, not to everyone.
- You compare terms. Lenders respond on the platform, and we help you through to completion.
Have a sports finance deal? Start it on Atlas in a few minutes. Introducers and brokers can submit on behalf of clients.
Start a dealCommon questions
Do you only cover football?
No. Football has its own page, but Atlas arranges finance across rugby, cricket, motorsport, padel, golf, tennis and multi-sport venues.
Can new padel or leisure venues be funded?
Yes. Lenders typically look for a site, planning, a costed fit-out and a credible operator. Asset finance can cover courts and equipment.
Is club investment available as well as debt?
Where owners want equity partners, see our equity and co-investment page. Equity introductions are for professional investors only.
Other finance we arrange
- Development financeFunding for ground-up builds, conversions and refurbishment schemes.
- Development exit financeRepays a maturing build loan while you sell or refinance completed units.
- Bridging financeShort-term loans secured on property, repaid by sale or refinance.
- Refurbishment financeLight and heavy refurbishment, conversions and value-add schemes.
- Commercial mortgages and investment loansTerm loans on commercial, mixed-use and investment property.
- Hotel and hospitality financeAcquisition, refinance and repositioning of hotels and leisure assets.
- Business loans and working capitalGrowth, working capital and refinancing for trading businesses.
- Invoice finance and ABLFunding released against your sales ledger, stock and assets.
- Asset financeFunding for vehicles, plant, machinery and equipment.
- Trade and supply-chain financeImport, export, purchase-order and supply-chain funding.
- Acquisition, leveraged and mezzanine financeBuy-outs, acquisitions, unitranche and stretch or mezzanine debt.
- Football financeTransfer fees, receivables, media advances and club funding.
- Infrastructure and project financeSenior and structured debt for energy, renewables and large projects.
- Equity and co-investmentIntroductions to family offices and investment groups for equity and JV capital.