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Sport vs Money with Simon Jordan

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Inside football’s billion-dollar power play

Sport vs Money tells the inside story of the collision between football and business - a story about power, ownership, and money that reaches far beyond the pitch. Across four episodes, Simon Jordan, the Premier League’s youngest-ever club owner, travels the globe to explore how decisions made by football’s top executives in the early 1990s set in motion a transformation that turned the world’s most beloved sport into a $100 billion global industry.

From London to Miami, Turin to New York, Jordan meets the people who have driven and defined this shift - including club owners, CEOs, FIFA executives, agents, and former players - to uncover how community-rooted clubs became global billion-dollar assets, how players evolved into worldwide brands, and how the future of the game is now shaped behind closed doors.

The series foregrounds the international influence of UK clubs, the rise of football as a global business, and the forces that continue to reshape the sport ahead of the next World Cup.

Featured contributors include Arsène Wenger (FIFA), architect of the revamped Club World Cup; Andrea Agnelli (ex-Juventus), one of the key figures behind the controversial Super League proposal; David Gill (Manchester United); Daniel Levy (Tottenham Hotspur); Freddie Ljungberg (Arsenal & Seattle Sounders); Rick Parry (Premier League); Lord Sugar (Tottenham Hotspur); and senior executives from Inter Miami, MLS, NFL and more.

With unprecedented access, a clear point of view, and a willingness to ask uncomfortable questions, Sport vs Money examines the high-stakes collision between sport and commerce - and asks: who really owns the game now?

Genres

Current Affairs, Society, Sport

Duration

4 x 47'

Language

English

Contributor

Simon Jordan, Arsene Wenger, Andrea Agnelli, David Gill, Daniel Levy, Freddie Ljungberg, Rick Parry, Lord Sugar

Production Company

Viaplay Sport

Producer

Grant Best, Hugh Sleight

The series is produced by Grant Best, whose credits include the BAFTA-winning Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum & Dad (2017), Ronaldo’s World Cup story The Phenomenon (2022), and La Guerra Civil (2022), which premiered at Sundance. The series is executive produced by Hugh Sleight, whose credits include The PhenomenonMaradona: The Fall, Green LionsCanelo: The Greatest Athlete You’ve Never Seen, and The Making of Anthony Joshua.