{"id":31718,"date":"2025-08-05T06:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/?post_type=event-post&#038;p=31718"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:27:42","slug":"sportfive25","status":"publish","type":"event-post","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/leaders-events\/leaders-sport-awards\/2025-shortlist\/sportfive25\/","title":{"rendered":"SPORTFIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/1746718076-scaled.png);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                \/\/ SHORTLISTED                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/leaders-events\/leaders-sport-awards\/2025-shortlist\/\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Agency of the Year<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">SPORTFIVE<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n                  <div class=\"hero__logos\">\n              <ul class=\"hero__logos__list\">\n                                        <li>\n                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/sportfive.co.uk\/\">\n                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/SPORTFIVE_FULL_LOCKUP_WHITE_BG_RGB-4-1-300x92.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\n                                                    <\/a>\n                                            <\/li>\n                                <\/ul>\n          <\/div>\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<!-- blocks\/section -->\n<section\n  class=\"es-section flexible-section  text-only theme-light\"\n    >\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"bg-striped-pattern__inner section-padding-top section-padding-bottom\">\n                <div class=\"es-section__inner col-parent col-parent--stack-sm\">\n                                            <div class=\"es-section__sidebar es-section__sidebar--sticky col col--12 \">\n                            \n                            \n                                                            <h2 class=\"h2 es-section__title\">The Power of Sport<\/h2>\n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"es-section__text content-area\">\n                                    <p><p>SPORTFIVE operates with a worldwide network of over 1,300 local experts across five continents. As a global full-service sports marketing agency, SPORTFIVE strategically, commercially, and creatively connects brands, rights-holders, media platforms, and fans to enable and create impactful partnerships in sports.<\/p>\n<p>From May 2024 to May 2025, SPORTFIVE has empowered its clients to leverage the power of sport through several key services including commercial sales, internationalisation, activation, media and production services.<\/p>\n<p>An area of particular focus during this time has been delivering large-scale, strategic, value-driven hospitality and experiential experiences on a global stage.<\/p>\n<p>SPORTFIVE\u2019s work across two major sporting events in 2024 encapsulated this work, UEFA EURO 2024 in Germany, where the agency oversaw over 100,000 hospitality guests and record-breaking commercial figures, as well as working with major global brands Sanofi, Oakley, Bridgestone and ArcelorMittal at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 to deliver strategic and experiential hospitality services.<\/p>\n<p>Other key projects throughout the year have included SPORTFIVE\u2019s continued work in supporting the growth of men\u2019s and women\u2019s football across five continents through the facilitation of commercial partnerships, media rights and perimeter advertising sales, including brokering the partnership between Borussia Dortmund and Vodafone.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, SPORTFIVE has continued to support brands worldwide to activate in the market, including through long-standing partners such as Citi, Xylem and Genesis, as well as working with global sporting talent including Jon Rahm, J\u00fcrgen Klopp and Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>These commercial successes have been complemented with the agency being named as one of the top two employers in all of sport, as well as the \u2018Most Attractive Sports Marketing Agency\u2019 for the third consecutive year in the annual iWorkinSport survey.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                  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