UK Business Succession Index

Sports Clubs & Recreation succession in North West

290 of 410 sports clubs & recreation companies in North West (70.7%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured410
Director aged 60+290
Exposure rate70.7%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology
410
Companies measured
290
Director 60+
198
Director 70+
70.7%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; sports clubs & recreation nationally runs at 66.5%.

MeasureCompanies
Sports Clubs & Recreation companies in North West measured410
Oldest director aged 60 or over290
Oldest director aged 70 or over198

Of the 290 with a director over 60, 27 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Sports Clubs & Recreation in other regions

Region60+Rate
West Midlands22169.9%
South West23868.6%
South East43567.4%
East Midlands17165.8%
East of England23062.8%
London23551.6%

Other trades in North West

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services7,21134.2%
Lettings7,19033.4%
Retail4,76520.3%
Investment3,73225.6%
Investment / Fund Management3,51236%
Other Leisure3,44927.7%
Engineering Services2,93136%
Property Development2,39837.6%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Hospitality & Leisure pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Hospitality & Leisure →

See all Sports Clubs & Recreation succession data or everything in North West.

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ExitRadar, "Sports Clubs & Recreation succession in North West", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-sports/north-west/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as a different trade grouping, a finer geography or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses; see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.