David Broughton
Research Director at Sports Business Journal
My 247h season at SBJ; sports biz geek; stadium enthusiast; frequent visitor to ballparks, operas, Highland Games, places you've never been and the closest pub
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5 days ago |
sportsbusinessjournal.com | David Broughton
The Wintrust Crossroads Sports Complex, a 100-acre youth sports development located an hour southwest of Chicago, is scheduled to open this weekend with a marketing and event ledger that has exceeded even the most optimistic projections. The complex consists of nine pro-sized baseball/softball fields that are convertible to 11 full-size soccer fields or 22 multisport fields.
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sportsbusinessjournal.com | David Broughton
The Rocket League Championship Series Major tournament in Raleigh this week is expected to draw more than 5,000 fans per day to the Lenovo Center and generate more than 10,000 hotel room nights, according to the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau. Rocket League is a soccer-like video game for PCs and consoles in which the players are vehicles rather than humans, developed and published by Psyonix, which Cary, N.C.-based Epic Games acquired in 2019.
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2 weeks ago |
sportsbusinessjournal.com | David Broughton
SBJ’s 2025 list of the Best Sports Business Cities, ranked by my colleagues David Broughton and Alex Silverman, lists the 25 strongest soccer business markets in the U.S. based on the stability of their respective franchises and permanent soccer events; presence of sponsor-supporting companies; new and/or modernized venues; frequency of hosting high-level transient events; and praise (or criticism) from industry insiders.
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sportsbusinessjournal.com | David Broughton
For soccer business stakeholders targeting the sport’s most engaged fans, those most likely to be watching and attending matches in the 2026 FIFA World Cup are 18- to 24-year-olds, according to data from CivicScience/SBJ Sports Consumer Insights. That same age group, unsurprisingly, also had the highest interest in soccer, and is willing to pay the most for a ticket: 36% said they would shell out more than $100 per ticket. Men were also more willing to spend than women.
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sportsbusinessjournal.com | David Broughton
“Game On 2030” is not only the theme in Miami this week at the 15th annual Green Sports Alliance Summit, but a subtle reminder to the sports world that only five years remain until pledges made in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted unanimously by United Nations member states in 2015 — are due.
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