Leeds, West Yorkshire · Sports consultancy
A sports consultancy working across event operations, commercial and sponsorship strategy, club development and elite concierge — from grassroots clubs to EFL organisations, venues, brand partners and professional players.
What we do
The same rigour whether the client is a grassroots club with one paid member of staff or a league negotiating its commercial rights. Nothing here is sold as a package — the engagement is built around what the organisation actually needs.
The operational backbone for events of any size. We take a fixture, a tournament or a launch from first concept to post-event debrief — planning, suppliers, accreditation, volunteer and steward coordination, match-day control, safety and reporting.
We create value through sponsorship, media rights, branding and image rights management — helping clubs and organisations identify, approach and retain commercial partners, and turning those relationships into reliable, recurring revenue rather than one-off deals.
Strategic support that outlasts a single event. We help clubs and organisations build sustainable commercial operations from the ground up — governance, revenue diversification, structure and the long-term plan that holds them together.
A discreet private-office service for professional players and their families — relocation and property, travel and lifestyle, personal brand and media, financial wellness and future planning, family and wellbeing. Handled quietly, by introduction.
Practical training for club staff, volunteers, students and emerging administrators. Commercial literacy, event delivery, governance and integrity — delivered as workshops, short courses or in-house programmes.
Representation across player and club mandates, delivered on licence. The consultancy work above is available today; representation opens as our licensing completes.
Advisory
Consultancy mandates that reach beyond a single club or fixture — the work that sits between governing bodies, investors, government and the sport itself.
Identifying, structuring and presenting sports investment opportunities to domestic and international investors.
Stadiums, training centres, academies and sports cities — supported through public-private partnership structures.
Working with football clubs, leagues and federations on governance, commercial viability and performance.
Digital sport strategy, data analytics, fan engagement platforms and the promotion of sports technology.
Advancing inclusive investment models that put women and young people into the sports economy, not just the stands.
Sports policy dialogue, institutional strengthening, compliance and integrity systems.
The difference
Agencies move deals. A consultancy is accountable for what happens after one — the operating model, the renewal, the governance that keeps it standing.
A First-Class business degree, a CMI Level 5 diploma in management and leadership, and an MSc in International Sport. The recommendations are researched, not improvised.
Clubs, leagues, federations, venues and brand partners. Player work sits inside that picture rather than being the whole of it.
Rooted in Leeds and West Yorkshire, built to operate transnationally — with English, French and Arabic in the room as standard.
The founder
Fatime Issakha Abakari has spent the past eight years running her own company across interior design, green spaces, construction, and business and management consultancy. Hakiro Sports Group is where that commercial discipline meets the sport she has followed all her life.
The result is a consultancy that treats a club like a business without ever forgetting it is a club — one that can sit with a board, a sponsor and a player in the same week and be useful in all three rooms.
By introduction
A private office for professional players and their families. Discreet, unhurried, and built on one principle — that the life around the career should never be the thing that goes wrong.
Get in touch
An event that needs running properly. A sponsorship that keeps lapsing. A board that needs a plan it can actually follow. Start there and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.
