How one Silicon Valley firm is seizing an opportunity from Premier League soccer's gambling ad clampdown

Cnbc · Aug 21, 2026 · 668 words · By Tom Chitty

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Premier League clubs are starting the new season without gambling companies on the front of their matchday shirts, as a league-wide restriction takes effect.

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What happened

Premier League clubs are starting the new season without gambling companies on the front of their matchday shirts, as a league-wide restriction takes effect.

Why it matters

The change has forced eight of the league's 20 clubs to find new front-of-shirt partners for the 2026/27 season, putting some of the most valuable advertising real estate in global sports on the market at the same time.

Common ground

At Fulham Football Club, online betting company SBOTOP has been replaced by ClickHouse, a Silicon Valley data infrastructure company.

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Follow-up questions

What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: How one Silicon Valley firm is seizing an opportunity from Premier League soccer's gambling ad clampdown?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Premier League clubs can still feature betting brands on their sleeves and training kits?
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Premier League clubs can still feature betting brands on their sleeves and training kits”

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The provided evidence consists of Microsoft Support articles regarding passkeys and calendars, which are completely irrelevant to football sponsorship.

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web search NEUTRAL — Learn how to create and save a passkey to sign in to your Microsoft personal or work/school account and many other websites, apps and services.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accounts-billing/securit…

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web search NEUTRAL — Training: In Microsoft Outlook, you can share your calendar with other people and open a shared calendar. Learn how in this online video.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/training/share-y…

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web search NEUTRAL — Copilot app updates bring a simpler, unified experience for personal, work, and school accounts. Learn what's changing, what's retiring, and how to prepare.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/le…

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Claim 2: “Fulham — which finished 11th in the 20-team league last season”

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Multiple sources, including Yahoo Sports and a general search result, confirm Fulham finished 11th in the Premier League last season.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025–26 Premier League was the 34th season of the Premier League and the 127th season of top-flight English football. The fixtures were released on 18 June 2025. The season consisted of 33 weekend…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–26_Premier_League

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026–27 Premier League is the 35th season of the Premier League and the 128th season of top-flight English football overall. The season began on 21 August 2026 and is scheduled to conclude on 30 M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026–27_Premier_League

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fulham Football Club is a professional football club based in West London, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1879, they have played home ga…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulham_F.C.

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Claim 3: “English Football League clubs — those in the country's four other divisions of professional soccer — are not subject to the voluntary restriction.”

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Multiple sources indicate that the EFL (English Football League) is not subject to the same voluntary ban as the Premier League, noting the potential cost to EFL clubs if such a ban were implemented.

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web search NEUTRAL — The English Football League (EFL), which is sponsored by Sky Bet, has previously said any outright gambling sponsorship ban for its 72 members would cost clubs £40m a year.
https://practicesource.com/uk-football-gambling-sponsorship-…

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web search NEUTRAL — The English Football Association (EFL), which is supported by Sky Bet, has recently said any inside and out betting sponsorship boycott for its 72 individuals would cost clubs £40m every year.Premier …
https://www.businessnownews.com/business_of_sport/premier-le…

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web search NEUTRAL — From front-of-shirt sponsors to sleeve partnerships and digital activations, betting and gaming brands have cemented themselves as major players in football sponsorship over the past two decades.
https://www.theleaguepaper.com/guest-blogs/444628/can-gaming…

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Claim 4: “Brentford swapped Hollywoodbets for recruitment platform Indeed.”

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The provided evidence for this claim is irrelevant, containing search results for Yandex and the value of Pi.

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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 11, 2025 · 俄罗斯搜索引擎网址 yandex官网入口直达Yandex的官方网址如下：国际版入口：https://yandex.com/俄罗斯本土版入口：https://yandex.ru ...
https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/725567645356284605.html

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web search NEUTRAL — π是个无限不循环小数，我们常用到的数值是3.14，参考网络资源，给出500位的计算值 π=3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 59230 78164 06286 20899 86280 34825 34211 70679 82148 08651 32823 06647 09384 46…
https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/318083987.html

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web search NEUTRAL — Microsoft Community
https://www.answers.microsoft.com/ja-jp/windows/forum/all/Ãƒ…

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Claim 5: “At Fulham Football Club, online betting company SBOTOP has been replaced by ClickHouse, a Silicon Valley data infrastructure company.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of math calculations and a general Wikipedia entry for Fulham F.C., with no mention of SBOTOP or ClickHouse.

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web search NEUTRAL — What percent is 50 of 200? The answer is 25%. Get stepwise instructions to work out "50 is what percent of 200?"
https://answers.everydaycalculation.com/percent-is/50-200

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web search NEUTRAL — How do you check that 50 out of 200 is 25%? Take 25% of 200: 200 × 25 ÷ 100 = 50. Getting the first number back confirms the percentage.
https://calculat.io/en/number/percentage/50--200

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Claim 6: “Everton replaced betting company Stake with financial services firm CMC Markets”

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Multiple independent web search results explicitly state that CMC Markets is replacing Stake as Everton's front-of-shirt sponsor.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Everton Football Club () is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1878, the club …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everton_F.C.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Stake is an Australian-Curaçaoan online casino. It is operated by Medium Rare N.V., a company incorporated in Curaçao, where it holds an online casino licence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stake_(online_casino)

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Claim 7: “Premier League clubs are starting the new season without gambling companies on the front of their matchday shirts, as a league-wide restriction takes effect.”

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The claim states clubs are starting the 'new season' without gambling sponsors, but the evidence explicitly states the agreement is to withdraw them 'by the end of the 2025-26 season' or 'after the 2025-26 season'. Therefore, the restriction is not yet in effect for the current/immediate season.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_League

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Northern Premier League is an English football league that was founded in 1968. Together with the Isthmian League and the Southern League it forms levels seven and eight of the English football le…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Premier_League

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Claim 8: “Tottenham Hotspur also carries a betting brand on its training wear.”

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Claim 9: “The change has forced eight of the league's 20 clubs to find new front-of-shirt partners for the 2026/27 season”

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While web search results for claim 0 mention eight clubs have gambling companies on their shirts, there is no independent corroboration in the provided evidence specifically confirming that eight clubs were forced to find new partners specifically for the 2026/27 season.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2019–20 Premier League was the 28th season of the Premier League, the top English professional football league, since its establishment in 1992, and the 121st season of top-flight English football…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_Premier_League

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nepal Premier League (NPL) is a Twenty20 franchise cricket tournament in Nepal, organised by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). Founded in 2024, it features eight franchise teams representing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal_Premier_League

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Claim 10: “Manchester United recently signed a training kit sponsorship with Betway reportedly worth up to £20 million ($27 million) a year”

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