DAZN: sale of majority stake in Goal.com to the private equity fund TPG

Integrated Media Company (IMC), a new company created by the US private equity fund TPG, will acquire a majority stake in the sports news website Goal.com, according to the OTT sports platform DAZN, on 22/09/2020.

The sports news sites Spox (GER) and VoetbalZone (NED), also owned by DAZN, are also part of the transaction, valued at $100m (€85m) according to the specialised media.

Goal.com was founded in 2004 and acquired by Perform Group (now DAZN Group) for £18m (€20m) in 2011. The site is present in more than 50 countries.

"Across platforms the new venture counts nearly 150 million unique visitors (August 2020) and offers news, scores, video and editorial content in 19 languages. It will seek to expand breadth and depth with the benefit of new capital," said DAZN.

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