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Everton person been ever-present successful nan WSL since 2017-18
Kieran Maguire
Football finance expert
Elizabeth Botcherby
BBC Sport journalist
Everton person sold their women's squad to nan genitor institution which owns nan nine - a move that will amended their compliance pinch nan Premier League's profitability and sustainability rules (PSR).
The squad has been purchased by Roundhouse Capital Holdings, which is owned and controlled by American businessman Dan Friedkin.
The Friedkin Group completed its takeover of Everton successful December 2024.
The move allows nan women's squad to enactment arsenic a standalone entity and pull number investment.
The men's team, meanwhile, benefits from nan waste being recorded arsenic gross successful nan club's accounts, which positively impacts their PSR position.
Under PSR, clubs cannot transcend £105m losses complete a three-year period. Everton were deducted points successful 2021-22 and again successful 2022-23 for breaching nan rules.
No figures person been released regarding nan worth of nan sale.
Everton are nan 3rd Premier League nine to waste their women's squad to navigate nan Premier League's financial rules.
Chelsea sold their women's squad to genitor institution BlueCo for astir £200m successful June 2024. Subsequently, nan squad attracted nan attraction of Reddit laminitis Alexis Ohanian, who purchased an 8-10% number stake successful May.
Aston Villa sold its women's squad to holding institution V Sports successful June.
In 2024-25, Everton vanished eighth successful nan Women's Super League, reached nan 5th information of nan Women's FA Cup, and exited successful nan group shape of nan Women's League Cup.
'An opportunity for much money to travel into nan women's team'
Everton person transferred ownership of nan women's squad to a abstracted portion of nan Friedkin Group empire, which is still nether nan wide power of Everton. It's a sideways move.
It's an finance opportunity. We've seen nan awesome occurrence of nan Lionesses. We're seeing, particularly successful nan United States, a immense liking successful nan women's game.
Therefore, you tin now waste portion of nan women's squad and support power of nan men's. It's mounting up nan business to possibly beryllium much profitable going forward.
It's wrong nan rules. We saw akin return spot pinch Chelsea and Aston Villa. The women's squad astatine Everton has power of Goodison Park, truthful that would make it an charismatic all-in proposition.
It is affirmative news because it intends location is nan opportunity for much money to travel into nan women's squad from a number investor. There wasn't capable attraction fixed to nan women's squad nether nan aged ownership group.
If you get nan surroundings right, if you get nan pricing right, you tin pull a caller type of fanbase and a different demographic. You tin spell to sponsors and partners and say, "we are nan women's team, we are different from nan men's team, and you tin use from that."
There are immense opportunities present and there's a feel-good facet pursuing nan Euros last connected Sunday and I deliberation it's nan correct clip to capitalise connected that.