Manchester United continue to top the Forbes list as the most valuable football club in the world but Real Madrid are gaining ground.

Manchester United also remain ranked as the most valuable team in any sport, worth $2.24 billion (£1.4 billion).

Arsenal will wear an adventurous new away kit this season and its eye-catching design marks a new direction for Arsenal – it combines a rich purple base with black hoops.

StubHub, the world’s largest ticket marketplace, has signed a ground-breaking deal with Sunderland AFC to serve as the club’s official secondary ticketing partner from the 2012-13 season onwards.

Arsenal is aiming to become the “Tesco Clubcard” of the English Premier League’s fan membership schemes as it prepares to place its new CRM system as the engine of its marketing activity.

20.20 are delighted to announce that we have been appointed by Premier League champions Manchester City to radically improve two of their prime hospitality suites.

The 21st edition of the Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance was launched on 31 May 2012. This definitive guide to European football finance provides not only a track record up to the end of the 2010/11 season, but also includes some pointers as to how the industry has developed in 2011/12 and is likely to change in the future.

Clubs in the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League shared €754.1m in participation, TV pool and performance-related revenue, Chelsea FC and FC Bayern München receiving the most.

FC PORTO and Nike launched the equipment of the national champion for 2012-2013. The latest collection is back in three distinct lines of clothing – competition, training and casual.

Barclays and the Premier League have agreed a new three-year deal for Barclays to continue as the global title sponsor of the Barclays Premier League to 2016.

Fans of Italian club Parma have been recognised in a unique way by their club, after it was announced the name of every season ticket holder will be sewn into their new shirt.