Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Professional sports management firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 6,136 professional sports management firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 44,422 professional contacts across them, including 10,868 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers professional sports management firms worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for professional sports management firms follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest professional sports management firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,953 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency, powering growth of revenues, fanbases and IP for more than 250 rightsholders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,530 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wasserman is a leading global, end-to-end marketing, management, representation and sales business serving talent, brands and properties.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,305 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Octagon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 703 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Excel Sports Management is an industry-leading management and marketing agency that represents top-tier talent, blue-chip brands and marquee properties.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 598 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Roc Nation As the world’s preeminent entertainment company, Roc Nation is known for its unmatched ability to create and foster careers and brands, collaborating with and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 486 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Home Team Sports, now a part of Playfly Sports, is a unique sports marketing company that offers brands fully customizable and scalable branding and partnership opportunities…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 372 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1986 as an athlete management and marketing firm, CSE (formerly Career Sports & Entertainment) has evolved into one of the longest-running and most-diversified…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 354 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fast Track works with major brands and Governing Bodies to develop and implement strategies that drive business through sport.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 303 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Vinik Sports Group (VSG) is an entity established by Jeff Vinik to manage the three-time Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning (2004, 2020, 2021) of the National Hockey League…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “rEvolution is an independent, global and fully integrated sports marketing agency comprised of industry experts in consulting and business strategy alongside marketing and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Representing top talent across North America @dulcedomodels @dulcedoinfluencers @dulcedosports” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 234 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “54 is a sports and entertainment agency operating across five regions and nine offices: United Kingdom (London), Europe (Sotogrande, Spain), MENA (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia & Abu…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ITW Universe- The Swiss Knife of Sports, Entertainment & Media Consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ICM Partners has been acquired by Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 182 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WE LOVE THE GAME.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 181 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For more than 30 years, TEAM helped shape one of sport’s greatest success stories: building the UEFA Champions League’s commercial model and creating one of the most iconic and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SEG is a leading international talent management agency that guides over talents in football, cycling, esports and entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada em 2004, a Golden Goal consolidou-se como uma das principais consultorias de gestão e marketing esportivo do Brasil, atuando na conexão entre o mundo corporativo e o…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Now part of Wasserman, CSM is a global sport and entertainment agency, offering our clients end-to-end marketing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Rush Soccer is an international sports management organization that operates and owns various soccer clubs around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A division of leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA), CAA ICON is the world’s-leading owners representative and strategic management consulting firm…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Klutch Sports Group” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Playfly Aspire is a global sports and entertainment firm partnering with clients to maximize revenue, people and organizational performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Athletes First is the premier sports representation and marketing agency, guiding the careers of elite athletes, coaches, executives, and broadcasters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Middle East's leading sports marketing company specialising in- Marketing and advertising - Public relations - Event management and development in all sports - Club management…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: professional sports management firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names professional sports management firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of professional sports management firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name professional sports management firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Professional sports management firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among professional sports management firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for professional sports management firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “professional sports management firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names professional sports management firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among professional sports management firms, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 10,868 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Professional sports management firms by location
23 lists · largest firstEvery Professional sports management firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Professional sports management firms based in the United States1,309
- Professional sports management firms based in the United Kingdom611
- Professional sports management firms based in Spain324
- Professional sports management firms based in Brazil243
- Professional sports management firms based in France225
- Professional sports management firms based in Germany208
- Professional sports management firms based in India157
- Professional sports management firms based in Canada149
- Professional sports management firms based in Italy126
- Professional sports management firms based in Australia125
- Professional sports management firms based in the Netherlands116
- Professional sports management firms based in Switzerland112
- Professional sports management firms based in the United Arab Emirates74
- Professional sports management firms based in Portugal58
- Professional sports management firms based in Belgium55
- Professional sports management firms based in South Africa38
- Professional sports management firms based in Sweden37
Cities
- Professional sports management firms based in New York, United States121
- Professional sports management firms based in Los Angeles, United States89
- Professional sports management firms based in Miami, United States65
- Professional sports management firms based in Atlanta, United States55
- Professional sports management firms based in Chicago, United States40
- Professional sports management firms based in Dallas, United States40
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names professional sports management firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many professional sports management firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 6,136 professional sports management firms worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
IMG, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most professional sports management firms?
The United States leads with 1,309 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (611) and Spain (324). Every professional sports management firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most professional sports management firms?
London leads with 317 headquartered companies, followed by New York (121) and Paris (101).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 10,868 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 6,136 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.