Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Regional football club operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 3,375 regional football club operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 57,842 professional contacts across them, including 7,579 with verified work emails. The United Kingdom is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers regional football club operators 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 21, 2026. Country and city lists for regional football club operators 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 regional football club operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,134 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Liverpool Football Club was founded in 1892 and is one of the world’s most historic and famous football clubs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,943 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Manchester City FC was initially founded in 1880 as St Mark’s West Gorton and officially became Manchester City FC in 1894.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,725 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FENERBAHÇE SPORTS CLUB, founded in 1907 as a football club in Kadıköy, at the hearth of Istanbul.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,563 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1904, Sport Lisboa e Benfica is the most decorated club in Portugal, and one of the most decorated in Europe, with 83 official trophies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 946 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “River Plate es el club más popular de la República Argentina, con más de socios, más de 20 millones de hinchas en el país y miles en cada rincón del mundo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 770 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Have you thought about Events at Villa Park?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 685 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At the heart and soul of London since 1895 West Ham United is a dynamic, fan-focused football Club constantly moving forward but always with an eye on the past.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 663 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PSV's primary objective attractive, attacking and ambitious football to play at national and European top level.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 533 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1908, Inter is recognised as one of the world's most successful football teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 529 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sediado em Belo Horizonte/MG, o Clube Atlético Mineiro nasceu em 25 de março de 1908, e é um dos clubes mais tradicionais do futebol sul-americano.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 502 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG is a subsidiary of the parent club, Eintracht Frankfurt e.V.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 490 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The main aspect of our business is the operation of a professional football club.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 484 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Brentford, we make our own way.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 459 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1875, Birmingham City Football Club is a proud, historic institution at the heart of English football and the city of Birmingham.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 432 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Having achieved promotion in the 2023/24 season, Ipswich Town are now members of the Premier League and play their home fixtures at Portman Road.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 399 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El Real Betis Balompié fue fundado el 12 de septiembre de 1907 en Sevilla.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 391 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Página OFICIAL do Grêmio FBPA • facebook.com/Gremio • instagram.com/gremio • youtube.com/gremiotvoficial • tiktok.com/@gremio” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 382 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “O Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas nasceu oficialmente no dia 8 de dezembro de 1942, como resultado da fusão de dois clubes com o mesmo nome: o Club de Regatas Botafogo (de 1º de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 360 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AFC Bournemouth are a professional football club, formed in 1899, currently playing in the Premier League – the top tier of English Football, based at Vitality Stadium.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 343 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Der 1.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 342 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield, una Asociación Civil sin fines de lucro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 326 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UrbanSoccer, société spécialisée dans les loisirs sportifs, et précurseur du foot 5 en France depuis 2004 est leader du marché avec 31 centres en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 319 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FC Utrecht is een betaaldvoetbalorganisatie die is gevestigd in het hart van het land.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 298 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Liderada por John Textor, a SAF Botafogo assumiu o controle do futebol do Mais Tradicional em março de 2022, sendo pioneira na constituição de um Clube-Empresa no país.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e.V, commonly known as FC Schalke 04, is one of the most successful and well-known football clubs in Germany with seven German championships, five…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: regional football club operators. 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 regional football club operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of regional football club operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name regional football club operators. 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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Regional football club operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 21, 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 regional football club operators, 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 regional football club operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “regional football club operators”. 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 regional football club operators), 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 regional football club operators, 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, 7,579 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 21, 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.
Regional football club operators by location
15 lists · largest firstEvery Regional football club operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Regional football club operators based in the United Kingdom488
- Regional football club operators based in France381
- Regional football club operators based in Germany284
- Regional football club operators based in the Netherlands260
- Regional football club operators based in Australia144
- Regional football club operators based in Sweden121
- Regional football club operators based in Spain119
- Regional football club operators based in Norway74
- Regional football club operators based in Brazil73
- Regional football club operators based in Switzerland73
- Regional football club operators based in the United States68
- Regional football club operators based in Denmark42
- Regional football club operators based in Finland33
- Regional football club operators based in Canada32
- Regional football club operators based in New Zealand29
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 regional football club operators, 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 regional football club operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 3,375 regional football club operators 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?
Liverpool Football Club, headquartered in Oth, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most regional football club operators?
The United Kingdom leads with 488 companies, followed by France (381) and Germany (284). Every regional football club operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most regional football club operators?
London leads with 42 headquartered companies, followed by Madrid (15) and Birmingham (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 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.