“Football moves money faster than anyone checks where it came from.”
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Our objective is simple: to help football organisations move beyond reactive compliance and build a robust, transparent, and future-ready integrity framework that protects both the club and the game.
We help football clubs, leagues, governing bodies, investors, sponsors, and financial institutions identify, remediate, and strengthen financial crime, integrity, and governance weaknesses — ensuring frameworks are effective, defensible, and capable of withstanding increasing regulatory, commercial, and reputational scrutiny. Our approach goes beyond compliance remediation. We address the underlying drivers of risk, helping organisations build sustainable integrity frameworks that protect the club, its stakeholders, and the wider football ecosystem. 
One game, four lines of defenceThe four services below can be bought individually or as a single end-to-end programme. Together they protect the integrity, ownership and finances of a football organisation — from understanding where risk really sits, to defending the club, the result and the licence:
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Explore Our SolutionsExplore our capabilities, service offerings and practical solutions through the links below, including indicative pricing and delivery options.
The Football Financial Crime BlueprintWritten by VRS Founder and CEO Oonagh van den Berg, this international best-selling book provides a practical and strategic blueprint for safeguarding football's integrity through stronger governance, transparency, and financial crime risk management across clubs, leagues, governing bodies, and the wider football ecosystem.
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Our focus includes:
- Development of Financial Crime and Integrity Risk Assessments covering ownership, sponsorship, transfer activity, betting exposure, sanctions, corruption, fraud, and emerging risks.
- Design and implementation of Football Integrity Target Operating Models (TOMs) aligned to regulatory expectations, governance best practice, and stakeholder requirements.
- Review and redesign of governance, oversight, and control frameworks, addressing root causes rather than symptoms.
- Independent assessments of ownership structures, sponsorship arrangements, transfer ecosystems, and third-party relationships.
- Advisory support in response to regulatory reviews, investigations, enforcement actions, and integrity concerns.
- Development of monitoring, intelligence, and escalation frameworks to identify emerging threats before they become crises.
- Design of data-driven control environments that enhance transparency, accountability, and decision-making.
- Integration of AI, analytics, and intelligence-led monitoring capabilities to strengthen detection and oversight.
- Board and executive advisory services focused on governance effectiveness, integrity, and reputational resilience.