A report detailing the financial impact for the city of a newly-promoted Premier League club states promotion brought in £212m to their local economy over the course of just one season. Nottingham Forest achieved promotion to the top flight on Sunday (May 29) after beating Huddersfield Town 1-0 in the Championship play-off final at Wembley.
Brighton & Hove Albion achieved automatic promotion in the 2016/17 season, playing in the top tier for the first time since 1982/83. According to a report from Albion in the Community, the official charity of that football club, the economic contribution to the city region's economy was £212m for the 2017/18 season.
That figure can be broken down into £150.5m of direct income to the football club, with spending by local employees, contracting with local businesses and spending away from their stadium accounting for around £60m. The income to Brighton & Hove Albion for the season before was less than a fifth of that figure, at less than £30m.
