Sports markets: are the rules right?

Sport is big business. Around a quarter of global spending on TV content is focused on sports rights acquisitions, rising from 38 billion USD in 2018 to 64 billion USD in 2025. Also on the rise are questions as to whether the right rules are in place to ensure that the competitions fans follow are fairly constituted.

In the latest episode of Top of the Agenda, Helen Jenkins is joined by Timo Klein, Managing Consultant at Oxera and Assistant Professor in Competition Economics at Utrecht University, and Christopher Davis, Partner at Oxera. Together, they explore how market rules, competition law, dispute resolution, and sports regulations shape the business of sport. They also discuss how economic principles designed to ensure fair markets translate into fair play, and where the biggest challenges lie today.