Footballco was spun off following the sale of DAZN Group’s digital football-focused platforms in October 2020. The company has now acquired CalcioMercato.com to add to the earlier acquisitions of Goal.com (now Goal), Spox.de and Dutch football platform VoetbalZone.

Footballco said this morning that its monthly audience of over 400m football fans worldwide would now be bolstered by CalcioMercato.com’s 12m monthly visitors. Until now, Footballco’s position in the Italian market was centred around Goal’s Italian-language edition and its distributed video player.