Professional sport is a global industry with complex commercial, operational, and stakeholder interdependencies.
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Professional sport is deeply embedded in society and operates as a global industry with significant commercial, operational, and stakeholder interdependencies. Its scale, visibility, and interconnectedness make it particularly exposed to business, governance, and disruption-related risks.
GSBS is designed to be accessible. The GSBS Rating is provided without participation fees, ensuring broad market coverage and comparability across professional sport. By removing financial barriers, GSBS supports transparency and enables organisations and stakeholders to benchmark performance and resilience using a consistent, independent reference point.
The GSBS Rating is a public, evidence-based benchmark used across the sport ecosystem as an input into decision-making and risk discussions. It provides structured, comparable signals that support greater transparency and understanding of business and resilience-related factors in professional sport.
The rating draws on more than 1,700 individual data points and indicators, producing a holistic, data-driven view of organisational performance across governance, operations, people, and strategic resilience dimensions.
Our mandate
To be the global reference point for independent, data-driven business and resilience intelligence in professional sport.
Complexity and Resilience in Professional Sport
Professional sport operates within an increasingly complex global environment. Organisations are exposed to a wide range of interrelated business, operational, governance, and disruption-related factors that can affect performance, continuity, reputation, and long-term viability.
GSBS does not seek to define priorities or prescribe actions. Instead, the GSBS Rating provides a structured, comparable framework to identify, assess, and benchmark how organisations manage material risks and resilience-relevant factors within this complexity.
• Governance and control environment
• Operational continuity and event delivery
• Workforce, safeguarding, and health & safety
• Financial concentration and revenue dependencies
• Supply chain and commercial counterparty exposure
• Environmental and resource-related disruption
• Regulatory and legal exposure
• Technology, data, and digital infrastructure
• Reputation and stakeholder trust