Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Sports consulting firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 7,013 sports consulting firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 48,103 professional contacts across them, including 12,206 with verified work emails and 8,098 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers sports consulting 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 6, 2026. Country and city lists for sports consulting 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 sports consulting 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,305 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Octagon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 515 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Playfly Sports is the leading REVENUE MAXIMIZER in the sports industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 387 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Today is the culmination of 12 years in the field of marketing and communication.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 378 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Van Wagner has been connecting brands to sports for over twenty years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 372 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 6, 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 250 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Elevate Talent supports ambitious companies in optimizing organizational performance and sourcing exceptional leaders from across sports, entertainment, media, lifestyle…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ITW Universe- The Swiss Knife of Sports, Entertainment & Media Consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MediaLink is the leading consulting firm serving the media and marketing industry’s C-suite.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bold steps forward.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a global sports, sponsorship and entertainment research company, working with the industry’s key players to unlock meaningful, actionable insights.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sport Stratégies est une société d'information professionnelle, spécialisée dans le domaine du marketing sportif.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Iowa Sports offers a total scope of design, management and development services - from conception to operation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Klutch Sports Group” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Optimum Sports is the in-house sports marketing agency within Omnicom Media Group, with nearly two decades of experience working with some of the biggest brands in sports.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 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 6, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 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 6, 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: sports consulting 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 sports consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of sports consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name sports consulting 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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Sports consulting firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 6, 2026Companies by employee count
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 sports consulting 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
- 24 countries, largest first: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Brazil, Germany, Australia, India, Italy, Canada and 14 more. Country and city lists for sports consulting firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “sports consulting 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 sports consulting 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 sports consulting 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, 12,206 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 between September 6, 2026 and September 14, 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.
Sports consulting firms by location
51 lists · largest firstEvery Sports consulting firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Sports consulting firms based in the United States2,244
- Sports consulting firms based in the United Kingdom922
- Sports consulting firms based in France497
- Sports consulting firms based in Spain470
- Sports consulting firms based in Brazil420
- Sports consulting firms based in Germany398
- Sports consulting firms based in Australia258
- Sports consulting firms based in India229
- Sports consulting firms based in Italy228
- Sports consulting firms based in Canada202
- Sports consulting firms based in Switzerland196
- Sports consulting firms based in the Netherlands192
- Sports consulting firms based in the United Arab Emirates114
- Sports consulting firms based in Mexico93
- Sports consulting firms based in Argentina84
- Sports consulting firms based in Belgium78
- Sports consulting firms based in Portugal73
- Sports consulting firms based in South Africa66
- Sports consulting firms based in Sweden64
- Sports consulting firms based in Türkiye57
- Sports consulting firms based in Austria40
- Sports consulting firms based in Denmark35
- Sports consulting firms based in Singapore27
- Sports consulting firms based in New Zealand26
Cities
- Sports consulting firms based in London, United Kingdom448
- Sports consulting firms based in New York, United States188
- Sports consulting firms based in Paris, France181
- Sports consulting firms based in Sao Paulo, Brazil150
- Sports consulting firms based in Madrid, Spain136
- Sports consulting firms based in Los Angeles, United States107
- Sports consulting firms based in Barcelona, Spain103
- Sports consulting firms based in Atlanta, United States69
- Sports consulting firms based in Miami, United States69
- Sports consulting firms based in Chicago, United States62
- Sports consulting firms based in Toronto, Canada60
- Sports consulting firms based in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil59
- Sports consulting firms based in Sydney, Australia58
- Sports consulting firms based in Melbourne, Australia56
- Sports consulting firms based in Dallas, United States54
- Sports consulting firms based in Hamburg, Germany37
- Sports consulting firms based in San Diego, United States35
- Sports consulting firms based in Washington, United States34
- Sports consulting firms based in Boston, United States33
- Sports consulting firms based in Manchester, United Kingdom33
- Sports consulting firms based in Berlin, Germany31
- Sports consulting firms based in Valencia, Spain31
- Sports consulting firms based in Charlotte, United States29
- Sports consulting firms based in Houston, United States29
- Sports consulting firms based in Phoenix, United States26
- Sports consulting firms based in San Francisco, United States26
- Sports consulting firms based in Orlando, United States25
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 sports consulting 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 sports consulting firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 7,013 sports consulting 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 sports consulting firms?
The United States leads with 2,244 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (922) and France (497). Every sports consulting firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most sports consulting firms?
London leads with 483 headquartered companies, followed by New York (204) and Paris (189).
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 12,206 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 7,013 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 6, 2026 and September 14, 2026.
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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.