The Sports Commercial Benchmark · In formation, 2026

Every club measures its marketing against its own targets. Almost none can measure it against the market.

Arenamark is the independent commercial performance benchmark for sport — automated, anonymised peer benchmarking of paid media, ecommerce, ticketing and hospitality demand, built on the platforms clubs already use.

The problem

A commercial director can tell you their cost per hospitality inquiry, their shop conversion rate, and their return on ticketing campaigns. What they cannot tell you — because it does not exist anywhere — is whether those numbers are good. Sport benchmarks everything on the pitch. The commercial side of the game has no equivalent.

Connected, not surveyed

Read-only connections to the advertising, analytics and social accounts a club already operates. No new tools, no data entry, no monthly reporting burden.

Benchmarked monthly

Performance classified into the categories boards care about — ticketing, hospitality, retail, audience growth — and compared against anonymised peer groups, every month.

Built on trust

A visible data-quality layer decides what is credible enough to publish. Every figure carries its sample size and provenance. Minimum sample rules are enforced on every benchmark.

Founding Group — Cohort One: Club Football

A benchmark cannot be bought off a shelf. It has to be founded.

Arenamark is being formed around a founding group of 10–15 clubs with meaningful digital commercial operations. Founding members join free for the first season, lock a permanent founding rate, shape the methodology before it becomes the standard, and receive a full multi-season analysis of their own commercial history within weeks of joining.

Governance, in brief

  • No club ever sees another club's data. Members see their own figures and anonymised, aggregated peer context only.
  • No partner, sponsor or investor sees member data. Access is read-only, granted by the club, and revocable.
  • Minimum sample sizes are enforced before any peer benchmark is shown — market context is never dressed up as a benchmark.
  • Only benchmark-ready data enters the pool. Every metric passes automated readiness checks before it can be compared.
  • The benchmark is independent — owned and operated by an independent company, whoever helps convene it.

Get in touch

Register interest in the founding group, request demo access, or ask for the prospectus.

Or email directly: [email protected]