TICKETMASTER SPORT LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-30 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-16
Watchouts
Cash
£20M
+168.5% vs 2023
Net assets
-£8M
-55.5% vs 2023
Employees
49
+2.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£4M
+47.8% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation
- TICKETMASTER SPORT LIMITED 2015-08-06 → present
- TICKETMASTER SYSTEMS LIMITED 2007-05-04 → 2015-08-06
- SYNCHRO SYSTEMS LIMITED 1979-12-31 → 2007-05-04
- COLTAVON LIMITED 1979-06-27 → 1979-12-31
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £16,914,452 | £24,826,598 | |
| Operating profit | -£6,977,328 | -£3,498,855 | |
| Profit before tax | -£7,278,864 | -£3,799,180 | |
| Net profit | -£5,112,076 | -£2,710,316 | |
| Cash | £7,459,911 | £20,029,133 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£4,885,160 | -£7,595,477 | |
| Net assets | -£4,885,160 | -£7,595,477 | |
| Equity | -£4,885,160 | -£7,595,477 | |
| Average employees | 48 | 49 | |
| Wages | £2,354,728 | £2,610,359 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -41.3% | -14.1% | |
| Net margin | -30.2% | -10.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 142.8% | 46.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.64x | 0.72x | |
| Interest cover | -21.71x | -10.25x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company is loss making and as such its ultimate parent company, Live Nation Entertainment Inc., has committed to provide continuing financial support, if required, to enable the company to meet its obligations as and when they fall due for a period to 31 December 2026. Based on the above, the directors consider it appropriate to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 32 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMENY, Selina Holliday | Director | 2011-12-14 | Jul 1968 | British |
| FANCY, Ian James | Director | 2025-12-03 | Aug 1977 | British |
| GRATTON, Christopher Robert Moray | Director | 2025-12-03 | Jun 1984 | British |
| NEWSAM, Adam Peter | Director | 2016-01-19 | May 1979 | British |
Show 32 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMILTON, David Nicholas | Secretary | 2007-03-12 | 2025-12-03 |
| WARNER, James Patrick | Secretary | 2006-12-01 | 2007-03-12 |
| WARSOP, Elizabeth Hope | Secretary | — | 1993-04-08 |
| JORDAN COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2000-09-12 | 2002-02-18 |
| LEGIST SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1993-04-08 | 2000-09-12 |
| THE COSEC CENTRE LTD | Corporate Secretary | 2002-02-18 | 2006-11-30 |
| BARNES, Terry | Director | 1998-09-04 | 2010-03-26 |
| COBUZZI, Eugene | Director | 1998-09-04 | 1999-10-31 |
| DEPINA, Stuart | Director | 1998-09-04 | 1999-06-15 |
| EDMONDS, Christopher James | Director | 2006-08-25 | 2025-12-03 |
| FRIENDLY III, Edwin Samson | Director | 2002-01-01 | 2002-09-01 |
| HAMILTON, David Nicholas | Director | 2010-05-24 | 2025-12-03 |
| HIGGINS, Thomas | Director | 2004-08-31 | 2010-07-30 |
| JACKSON, Peter Findlay | Director | 2002-01-01 | 2004-08-31 |
| KNEPPER, Peter Barlow | Director | 1993-04-08 | 1998-09-04 |
| KNOTT, Valerie Elizabeth | Director | 2002-01-01 | 2004-04-09 |
| LATHAM, Paul Robert | Director | 2010-05-24 | 2011-12-14 |
| LEACH, Carol Patricia | Director | 2002-01-01 | 2006-08-24 |
| LEONARD, Robert Anthony | Director | 1993-04-08 | 1998-09-04 |
| MORIARTY, Sean | Director | 2007-03-12 | 2009-03-24 |
| PARSONS, Andrew John | Director | 2014-10-23 | 2016-01-19 |
| PLEASANTS, John Fendall | Director | 2005-01-01 | 2005-09-16 |
| PLEASANTS, John Fendall | Director | 2002-01-01 | 2003-03-31 |
| PRESSWELL, Simon Paul Thomas | Director | 2013-10-10 | 2014-10-17 |
| RIDGEWAY, Alan Brian | Director | 2010-05-24 | 2011-12-14 |
| ROSEN, Fredric D | Director | 1993-04-08 | 1998-09-04 |
| SERWIN, Bradley Kessel | Director | 2002-01-01 | 2004-12-31 |
| WARNER, James Patrick | Director | 2002-01-01 | 2007-03-12 |
| WARSOP, Elizabeth Hope | Director | — | 1998-01-16 |
| WARSOP, Paul Anthony | Director | — | 2001-03-30 |
| WILLIAMSON, Paul Joseph | Director | — | 2001-12-31 |
| YOVICH, Mark Jeffery | Director | 2011-12-14 | 2021-09-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ticketmaster Europe Holdco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2022-12-12 | Active |
| Fc1031 Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-12-12 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 233 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-12-10 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-12-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-12-20 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-12-20 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-12-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-05-17 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2021-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 3
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
+46.8%
£16,914,452 £24,826,598
-
Cash
+168.5%
£7,459,911 £20,029,133
-
Net assets
-55.5%
-£4,885,160 -£7,595,477
-
Employees
+2.1%
48 49
-
Operating profit
+49.9%
-£6,977,328 -£3,498,855
-
Profit before tax
+47.8%
-£7,278,864 -£3,799,180
-
Wages
+10.9%
£2,354,728 £2,610,359
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers