Soccerex
The Global Leader for the Business of Football
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| Industry | Sport industry |
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| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Power Road Studios, Chiswick, London, United Kingdom |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Duncan Revie (CEO) Rita Whelan (COO) Tony Martin (Chairman) |
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Number of employees
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29 |
| Website | Official website |
Soccerex is an organisation that runs events for the association football industry, based in Chiswick, London.
The company was founded in 1995 by Duncan Revie, CEO until his death in 2016, son of the Leeds and England manager Don Revie, COO Rita Whelan and chairman Tony Martin. The event was conceived in the Midland Hotel, Manchester, while Revie and Whelan were attending a business event for the music industry and noted a gap in the market for football business.
The first event was held in Manchester in 1996, and followed this with annual events in London in 1997, Paris in 1998, Los Angeles in 1999 before returning to Old Trafford, Manchester, to hold the 5th edition in 2000. Following this period, the event settled in Dubai from 2001 to 2006 where it grew its customer base and began to attract greater attention, with appearances from leading figures of the game including FIFA President Sepp Blatter,David Dein,Peter Kenyon, David Gill and Umberto Gandini.
In 2005, the company launched a regional sub-event concept, the London Forum, to cater for local markets for organisations who could not attend the event in Dubai. Following the launch of the Forums the main Soccerex event was rebranded as a Global Convention.
In 2007 the Global Convention moved to Johannesburg in advance of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and would remain there until 2009, when the event transferred to Rio de Janeiro in a tenure due to stretch until the 2014 FIFA World Cup, although this was cut short by the termination of the 2013 edition. The cancellation of its 18th annual industry conference, scheduled to take place in Rio de Janeiro in November 2013, caused concern that there might be problems with the 2014 FIFA World Cup, due to be held in Brazil in June and July of the following year. In 2014 the event returned to Manchester, a tenure which will last until 2017.
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