Sporting Portugal Fund is a Portuguese football investment fund dedicated on
Sporting CP players. It was managed by "
ESAF – Espírito Santo Fundos de Investimento Mobiliário S.A.". At first the fund had 3,000,000 units with €5 each.
FIFA did not allowed third parties to have "significant" influence on players, which in reverse minority interest was not banned. Sporting closed its relation to
previous investment fund in 2007, but "Sporting Clube de Portugal – Futebol, SAD", the company that operation football section of the athletic club, had a negative equity of €29.646 million in 2010–11 season. Co-current with issue bonds, re-capitalization, Sporting had to find an alternative way to improve the financial condition. Benfica had set up a successful
Benfica Stars Fund
Benfica Stars Fund was a football investment fund belonging to Portuguese club Benfica's SAD, a public limited sports company responsible for the financial management of the club's professional football team.
The fund was set up by ESAF – Esp ...
which purchased around €40M from the club. The club gave up a portion of future transfer fee received in return. After months of preparation, Sporting announced the fund would start operate in August 2011.
In August 2011, Sporting announced that the fund had a size of €15 million and opened to subscription.
On 18 August, Sporting started to sell new signing, current players and youth product to the fund for cash.
Investments
See also
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Third-party ownership in association football
References
External links
Entryat CMVM
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Association football organizations