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PrivateFor profitSportsPreston, England, United Kingdom
EFL
EFL is the world's original league football competition.
- Founded
- 1888 138 years ago
- Staff
- 101-250 228 on LinkedIn
- Followers
- 65k on LinkedIn
- Funding
- $228M as listed, USD
Formed in 1888, the EFL is the world's original league football competition. We provide a national membership organisation for Clubs and also manage three main competitions - the Sky Bet EFL, the Carabao Cup and the Bristol Street Motors Trophy - while administering reserve team and youth football for our member Clubs. We encourage all parts of the community to enjoy league football through community inclusion programmes and generate the commercial revenue that sustains and fuels football's growth.
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Size
101-250 people: larger than 85% of companies with a size listed. 228 people list it on LinkedIn.
Age
138 years old.
Reach
Website ranked #86,731 in the world for traffic, about 630k visits a month. 64,917 followers on LinkedIn.
What it does
Sportsfootballsportsponsorshipmarketingdigitaleventssocial mediagovernancecommunicationspublic affairsPRbroadcast rights
What it is known for
footballsportsponsorshipmarketingdigitaleventssocial mediagovernancecommunicationspublic affairsprbroadcast rightsspectator sportssportsconsumer internetconsumers
What its website runs on
YouTube
Funding, as listed
$228M raised in total
- Rounds2
- LatestDebt financing, Mar 2021
- Latest amountUSD 161,000,000
- Investors1, 1 leading
What the source datasets report. We have not watched these rounds ourselves.
Every detail we hold
Everything the source datasets list about EFL, field by field. Contact details are held but never shown.
The company
- Name
- EFL
- Type
- For profit
- Status
- Private
- Founded
- 1888
- Founders
- William McGregor
- Industry
- Sports
- Categories
- Sports
- Specialities
- football, sport, sponsorship, marketing, digital, events, social media, governance, communications, public affairs, PR, broadcast rights
Where
- City
- Preston
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Markets
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
- Retail locations
- 72
Size and reach
- Staff band
- 101-250
- People on LinkedIn
- 228
- LinkedIn followers
- 64,917
- Web traffic rank
- #86,731
- Monthly web visits
- 630,356
Funding, as listed
- Total
- $228,256,009 USD
- Rounds
- 2
- Latest round
- Debt financing
- Latest round date
- Mar 2021
- Latest amount
- 161,000,000 USD
- Investors
- 1
- Lead investors
- 1
- Listing status
- private
Classification
- NAICS
- 711219, 711320
- SIC
- 7941
- Keywords
- 16 listed, shown above
- Technologies
- 1 detected, shown above
About this record
- Sources
- Crunchbase, LinkedIn, Apollo
- Last imported
- Sept 2026
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