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Women Football

The rise of women’s football executives: Inside the WSL’s evolving leadership structures

To assess the professionalising structures, this article examines the evolution of women’s football leadership across England’s WSL through three dimensions - gender, women’s football experience, and playing background - while drawing selective comparisons with Spain’s Liga F.

Golden Boy

Golden Boy 2025: Insights on winner Désiré Doué, the finalists, and Europe’s youth development trends

This article analyses Désiré Doué’s standout season, the patterns and trends across the finalists and the top 100, as well as looking at how these patterns reflect broader youth development across European football.

Investors

European football M&A in 2025: Fewer mega deals, broader global reach

This analysis reviews the key developments across football M&A in 2025, highlighting the main target markets, the origins of investors, the year’s most significant reported transactions, as well as looking at the growing reach of activity beyond Europe and in the women’s game.

Big Five

Inside Paris’s football ecosystem: Where talent abundance meets untapped opportunity

This week’s analysis looks at Paris as a global hub for player development, why pathways within the city are limited, and how renewed investment could help translate its player production and commercial potential into sustainable competitiveness and depth.

Financial Performance

BlueCo’s Strasbourg project: Investing to build a competitive force in a fragile Ligue 1

This analysis looks at how Strasbourg’s inclusion in BlueCo’s multi-club model is reshaping the club’s financial profile, sporting performance, and position within Ligue 1’s hierarchy.

Stadium

Milan’s new stadium: Revenue potential, investment requirements, and the case for sharing

This week’s special analysis from Football Benchmark CEO Andrea Sartori will answer the following three key questions: how much additional revenue could the new stadium generate, what level of investment will it require, and does it truly make sense for the two clubs to continue sharing a home?

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