Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

S Sports Direct

Iceflower tracks 349 Sports Direct stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #1 of 345 tracked UK sporting goods stores chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -3.4% over the last year.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked stores
349
Regions
12
Category
Sporting Goods Store
Category rank
#1

Growth

Sports Direct against its category

The biggest tracked UK sporting goods stores chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Sports Direct's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 S Sports Direct -3.4%
2 G GO Outdoors logo GO Outdoors +3.3%
3 N Nike logo Nike -5.0%
4 D Decathlon logo Decathlon -7.3%
5 M Mountain Warehouse logo Mountain Warehouse -
6 A Angling Direct +14.4%
7 A American Golf +2.7%
8 T The North Face logo The North Face +0.1%
9 T Trespass -
10 A adidas logo adidas +11.2%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 103.7 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

349 tracked Sports Direct locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • London 57
  • South East 44
  • East of England 39
  • Scotland 35
  • North West 33
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 28
  • South West 25
  • East Midlands 22
  • West Midlands 21
  • North East 20
  • Wales 17
  • Northern Ireland 8

Customer overlap

Who shops at Sports Direct

Tracked chains Sports Direct customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

Y YO! Haverfordwest Tesco Kiosk 100
A ALDI logo ALDI 91
Y YO! Ayr Tesco Kiosk 67
Y YO! Exmouth Tesco Kiosk 56
T Tesco Extra 50
A Asda logo Asda 49
M McDonald's logo McDonald's 47
Y YO! Bletchley Tesco Kiosk 42
J JD Sports logo JD Sports 37

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