The UK is obsessed with the beautiful game. If football is your thing, then why not turn your hobby into a profitable and scalable career? Whether you’re a player or a spectator, you CAN turn your passion into a hugely satisfying living.
The annual national spend on football-related products and services is more than £310 million, and there are plenty of slices of that cake in the nation’s favourite sporting activity.
The UK sports sector is worth £23 billion, employing around one million people. Regardless of the current size of the industry, there is plenty of room for new innovators to disrupt the industry with original ideas and excellent opportunities with a booming sports franchise.
Football franchises are available for children's and young adult's training programmes and a rich array of merchandise opportunities. No prior experience is required in many cases - full training is provided as part of the franchise package.
Learn to hone your teaching skills and develop eagle-eyed recognition for exclusive merchandise. Shift units in spades, and become a sporting entrepreneur in a loyal, passionate sector that monopolises on your passion.
If you do what you love, you’ll never feel like you’re working ever again.
Franchising
Franchising is a unique opportunity to adopt recognisable branding so that your customers already know you.
Familiar branding comes pre-packaged with a reputation for quality, service, and trustworthiness - quite apart from the prestige of using a well-known name for your new start-up business.
Benefit from the specialist knowledge of the parent company, providing priceless insight into the business of marketing, running, and maintaining your new company.
You might be a genius on the field, but that doesn't necessarily equate to an expert in the boardroom. That's not a problem with franchise businesses, because you'll receive all the support and training you need to make a glowing success of your new football franchise.
One of the main benefits of franchising is the fact that all of the complicated business regulations are already in place; there's always someone to help you stay on track with the tricky accounting and regulatory content.
Your football franchise parent company can help you set up your digital presence - helping with all the technical support you might need to get your new business online.
With any training-type business, there's a range of compliance issues regarding insurance and safeguarding (if you're working with children and vulnerable adults). Your football franchise parent company will help you through all of the paperwork to make sure that you and your staff are protected, and you can create a safe, supportive environment for your participants.
Facts About Football Franchises
2019 was a significant year for football for the UK: English teams reinforced their dominance in the Europa League, with Liverpool triumphing in the UCL.
But 2019 was also a real turning point for women’s football, representing a sea change in participation and spectatorship. This can only be a good thing for anyone considering starting up a football franchise business - the demographic has opened up massively over the past decade.
Football franchises include training camps and programmes for children and young adults, Sunday league teams, and a massive array of merchandising and tie-in opportunities.
You might sell tickets for matches, run after-school clubs for boys and girls who love the game or enter the hugely lucrative merchandise sector. Or, perhaps, you'll be selling kits, balls, posters and pictures, and a whole range of collectables. Your football franchise is the start of an entirely new and thoroughly satisfying career path.
Franchising Vs Independent
Banks tend to favour franchises; they consider a franchise more likely to produce a good return on investment. This is because franchises are built on proven business frameworks, with a history of profit, growth, and business sustainability.
Starting up independently, however, is fraught with risk. It can be difficult to establish yourself in a saturated marketplace, making profit in the first couple of years difficult to achieve. In fact, almost half of all independent companies in the UK go bust within two years as they struggle to establish themselves.
The franchise model, on the other hand, offers stability and support for new businesses, especially if you're new to trading.
Football Franchises
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