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Topher Forhecz

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4.4 • 350 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

There’s a new club coming to women’s professional football in the United States. Next season will see the debut of Bay FC, out of northern California. Aly Wagner, a former player on the US women’s national team, explains how she helped get the club off the ground with an investment model that has never been used in US professional sports before. We explore how this funding model could change the landscape for American sports. You’ll also hear from the FT’s US sports business correspondent Sara Germano about whether this very European model is moving across the pond.

Plus, do you have your own burning questions about business or finance? Send us your questions and we may use them in a future show.

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Or, email Michela at [email protected], or message her on Twitter at @mtindera07

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For further reading:

Sixth Street commits $125mn to buy new US women’s football club

Why investors are cashing in on women’s sport

What private equity means for football

UK women’s football needs ‘strategic’ investor to sustain growth

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On Twitter, follow Sara Germano (@germanotes), Saffeya Ahmed (@saffeya-ahmed) and Michela Tindera (@mtindera07)

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0:00.0	Am I missing anything? Is this the right decision?
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0:29.7	Hey Sophia, have you been watching the Women's World Cup?
0:36.0	I have. I've been keeping up more with the scores than watching every single game
0:40.1	just because they're playing all the way over in Australia and New Zealand so the
0:44.4	time difference is yeah it's kind of tough but I actually did watch the USA
0:49.3	Netherlands game last week I watched that too it was quite quite the nail bider. That's Sophia Ethmed.
0:55.8	She's a producer for this show. And I wanted to have her on for this week's episode because
1:00.1	Sophia is a football or as it's known here in the US, a soccer super-fan.
1:06.0	I've been playing ever since I was a little kid so probably like two-ish decades now.
1:12.0	Barcelona is my favorite soccer team and who is decades now.
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