RFU report 30% rise in total revenue for 2024/25
The RFU's 102-page annual report and accounts for 2024/25 has revealed a £53 million year-on-year increase in revenue.
Jon Newcombe
25 Nov 2025, 5:29
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Once editor of Rugby Times (2002-11), the UK's first weekly newspaper devoted to Rugby Union, and now owner of Heads Up Sports Media; Not the former Aussie tennis player of the same name, nor the son of well-known former rugby writer Barry Newcombe!
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