Safeguarding

1 Crown Office Row has extensive experience not only in this area of the law, but also in a wide variety of sports both as participants and administrators.

12KBW’s barristers have significant experience in sports law at all levels of seniority and our silks and juniors regularly appear in courts and specialist tribunals both domestically and internationally across the full range of sports law matters.

ASD Sports is one of the few specialist sports law teams embedded within a full-service commercial law firm. As part of ARNECKE SIBETH DABELSTEIN we offer clients the rare combination of true sports law expertise supported by the full breadth of a top-tier commercial law firm.

Clyde & Co is a dynamic, global law firm focused on providing complete legal services to clients across the UK & Ireland, and globally.

We work with individual athletes, clubs, national governing bodies and international federations to offer highly specialised legal and commercial advice in key areas of Sports Law.

As an internationally recognized sports law firm that has represented clients from more than 70 different countries and more than 70 different sports, Global Sports Advocates is renowned for its client-centric approach as well as the impressive results it achieves. Global Sports Advocates is solely devoted to the practice of sports law and prides itself on its zealous advocacy for professional, collegiate, and Olympic athletes, as well as coaches, teams, executives, and other sports stakeholders.  The attorneys at Global Sports Advocates are at the forefront of the sports law industry and regularly teach sports law classes, present at sports law conferences, and publish articles on the latest sports law trends.

As Chambers Scottish Firm of the Year 2025 and Scotland's first recognised sports law specialist team, Harper Macleod has been top ranked in sport by the UK's leading independent legal directories since 1999.

We are a Top 100 UK law firm with offices in London, Cardiff, Manchester, and on the South Coast, advising leading organisations and brands, including British Boxing Board of Control, Welsh Rugby Union and Football Association of Wales.  

Ranmore Law is a specialist sports law practice that was established in 2023.  It has rapidly developed a significant client base with a focus on supporting National Governing Bodies and clubs across a range of issues including governance, safeguarding, disputes and commercial growth. 

We act for National Governing Bodies, Integrity Agencies, Premier League and Championship clubs, players, athletes and other sporting individuals.

Our team of lawyers has acted for clients within numerous elite sports.  Examples of clients our lawyers have represented are:

• Newcastle United Football Club
• Leeds United Football Club
• Crysal Palace Football Club
• Sheffield United Football Club
• Reading Football Club
• Wycombe Wanderers Football Club
• Durham County Cricket Club
• Newcastle Red Bulls (formerly, Newcastle Falcons)
• British Weightlifting
• Ice Hockey UK
• Walsall Football Club
• Harrogate Town Football Club
• Premier Ice Hockey Limited
• Premier League and EFL footballers
• Premier League and EFL managers
• Rugby League players
• Motor racing drivers
• Mixed Martial Arts professionals competing internationally
• Football agents / intermediaries

Weightmans is a full-service national law firm, with offices in 9 locations across the UK. We have significant bench strength across the entire sports market, with many of our lawyers acting for national governing bodies, clubs, leagues, sports professionals, agents, and insurers and brokers in sport.