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Top 25 Soccer clubs based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 1,170 soccer clubs headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 27,731 professional contacts across them, including 5,388 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers soccer clubs headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 19, 2026.
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 soccer clubs based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,134 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arsenal Football Club exists to make our fans proud, wherever they are in the world and however they choose to follow us.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,438 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tottenham Hotspur is a world-famous football club based in London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 800 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Everton Football Club is one of world sport's most respected and revered names - a by-word for innovation and professionalism during the course of a glittering history which now…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 708 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bremner, Charles, Gray, Hunter, Charlton, Lorimer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 685 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 619 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brighton & Hove Albion is an English football club based on the south coast of England, in the city of Brighton and Hove.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 575 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fulham Football Club was established in 1879 as a church football team named Fulham St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 560 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nottingham Forest is an English professional football club based at the City Ground in West Bridgford, a suburb of Nottingham.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 484 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Brentford, we make our own way.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 477 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rangers Football Club is steeped in tradition, has rich and proud history and is a name that conjures up magical memories in the minds of thousands of supporters across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 459 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 364 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sunderland AFC is rightfully mentioned amongst world football’s oldest and successful names.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 360 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 316 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A founder member of the Football League, Blackburn Rovers are one of the most famous football clubs in the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 309 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a founding member of the Football League, we boast one of the richest histories in the beautiful game, shaping modern football while always staying true to our Old Gold roots.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 303 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 277 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR) is an English professional football club based at Loftus Road, White City, west London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 275 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 248 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founder members of the Football League, Bolton Wanderers are an ambitious, progressive, diverse and welcoming club.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GOALS is the market leader in the fast-growing small-sided football market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 229 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Portsmouth Football Club (PFC), founded in 1898, is a historic professional football club based on the south coast of England.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 207 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Plymouth Argyle Football Club has made significant strides since emerging from administration in 2011.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: soccer clubs. 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 soccer clubs.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of soccer clubs, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name soccer clubs. 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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Soccer clubs based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,170 companies.
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 soccer clubs, 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “soccer clubs”. 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 soccer clubs), 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 soccer clubs, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 5,388 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 19, 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.
Soccer clubs by metro
- Soccer clubs in London126
- Soccer clubs in Manchester26
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 soccer clubs, 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 soccer clubs are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 1,170 soccer clubs headquartered in the United Kingdom 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 city has the most soccer clubs?
London leads with 126 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (26) and Glasgow (15).
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 5,388 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,170 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 19, 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.