Matchroom: who owns it, who runs it and what the accounts show
Matchroom Sport Limited's person with significant control on the Companies House register is Matchroom Holdings Ltd. In the year to June 2025 Matchroom Sport Limited reported turnover of £225m.
- Registered name
- MATCHROOM SPORT LIMITED
- Company number
- 01630824
- Status
- Active
- Incorporated
- 23 April 1982
- Registered office area
- Chelmsford
- Industry code on the register
- 59113: Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing
- Accounts
- Group accounts, covering the companies it owns
- Accounts type
- Full group accounts
- Latest accounts
- Year to June 2025, filed 12 April 2026
What does Matchroom do?
Matchroom is a sports promotion and broadcast business that stages events and sells them as television programming. Barry Hearn founded it in Essex in 1982. It promotes and produces events in sports including boxing, snooker, darts, pool and golf. It earns money from broadcast rights sold to TV channels and streaming services around the world, as well as from ticket sales and sponsorship. It is privately owned by the Hearn family.
In brief: sports promoter · TV production and rights · boxing, snooker and darts · family-owned
Source: Spark Intel editorial, checked 24 September 2026. Official website: matchroom.com.
Who owns Matchroom?
The Companies House register records Matchroom Holdings Ltd as the person with significant control of Matchroom Sport Limited, company number 01630824. Matchroom Holdings Ltd is itself company number 13198882.
That places Matchroom Sport Limited inside a larger group. Its accounts are group accounts, covering the companies it owns as well.
The full ownership record is on the Companies House register. Control is given in the bands the register uses, not as exact shareholdings.
Who runs Matchroom?
The Companies House register lists 9 current officers for Matchroom Sport Limited.
All 9 current officers
| Officer | Appointed |
|---|---|
| Stephen James Dawson | |
| Edward John Hearn | 8 June 2004 |
| Catherine Louise Godding | 1 January 2010 |
| Matthew Richard Porter | 1 July 2013 |
| Frank John Smith | 1 January 2019 |
| Wendy Frances Barker | 30 April 2021 |
| Emily Louise Frazer | 1 July 2023 |
| Shaun Antony Palmer | 1 July 2023 |
| Melanie Jane Simmonds | 1 July 2023 |
Every current officer, with appointment dates, is on the Companies House register.
What did Matchroom file?
Matchroom Sport Limited reported turnover of £225m in the year to June 2025. That was up 3.3% on £218m the year before.
It reported 142 employees. The year before it reported 136.
It filed a pre-tax profit of £55m for the year, against a pre-tax profit of £52m the year before.
Staff costs came to £14m. That is an average of £98,000 a head. It ended the year with £22m at the bank and net assets of £33m. It paid dividends of £33m.
| Measure | Jun 2025 | Jun 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £225m | £218m |
| Pre-tax profit | £55m (filed) | £52m (filed) |
| Employees | 142 | 136 |
| Staff costs | £14m | £13m |
| Average staff cost per head | £98,000 | £93,000 |
| Bank and cash | £22m | £38m |
| Net assets | £33m | £25m |
| Dividends paid | £33m | £24m |
| Interest received | £1.2m | |
| Directors' pay | £4m |
Read the accounts to June 2025 on Companies House, where every set of accounts the company has filed can be downloaded as a PDF.
Are there any charges against Matchroom?
Matchroom Sport Limited has registered 14 charges at Companies House, and all of them have since been satisfied. A charge is security a lender takes over a company's assets; one is satisfied when the lending behind it is repaid or released.
Each charge, with its holder and dates, is on the Companies House register.
How Matchroom compares
Matchroom files as Matchroom Sport Limited, whose person with significant control is Matchroom Holdings Ltd, with turnover of £225m in its latest filed year.
Questions about Matchroom
What does Matchroom do?
Matchroom is a sports promotion and broadcast business that stages events and sells them as television programming. Barry Hearn founded it in Essex in 1982. It promotes and produces events in sports including boxing, snooker, darts, pool and golf. It earns money from broadcast rights sold to TV channels and streaming services around the world, as well as from ticket sales and sponsorship. It is privately owned by the Hearn family.
Who owns Matchroom?
The Companies House register records Matchroom Holdings Ltd as the person with significant control of Matchroom Sport Limited.
How much does Matchroom make?
Matchroom Sport Limited reported turnover of £225m in the year to June 2025. It filed a pre-tax profit of £55m.
How many people work at Matchroom?
Matchroom Sport Limited reported 142 employees in the year to June 2025.
Who runs Matchroom?
The Companies House register lists 9 current officers for Matchroom Sport Limited. The full list, with appointment dates, is on the Companies House register.
- Figures come from Matchroom Sport Limited's filings at Companies House, company number 01630824, for the period shown at the top of the page.
- These are group accounts: they include the companies it owns.
- Pre-tax profit is the figure the company filed, for both years.
- A figure the filing does not disclose is shown as n/d. A zero in the filing is treated as not disclosed, never as nil.
- Rounding: below £0.1m in thousands, from £0.1m to £2m to one decimal place, from £2m to the nearest million.
- Ownership is shown in the control bands the register of people with significant control uses, not as exact shareholdings.
- Officers' names and appointment dates come from the Companies House register. Job titles come from the company's own website. The description of what the company does comes from its website, or is marked Spark Intel editorial where it is written from stable, checked facts, with the date either way.
Spark Intel, “Matchroom: who owns it, who runs it and what the accounts show”, updated 28 September 2026. https://www.spark-intel.co.uk/companies/matchroom/. Figures from Companies House filings for MATCHROOM SPORT LIMITED (01630824).
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