The club is among the largest and best-supported in the sporting world, and its office space expansion is intended to enable the continuation of its highly successful off-field activities.
Despite playing its home matches in the north-west of England, much of the club’s commercial operations are based in London, and it is believed to have outgrown the offices in Pall Mall where its employees have been working from in recent years.
According to the Telegraph, the Premier League leaders will pay £80 per square foot for their new office space in the prestigious Mayfair area of London’s West End.
You can see examples of office spaces for rent in Mayfair on the link above.
Among the most lucrative commercial arrangements reached in recent years by United’s London-based team was the agreement with the American insurance group Aon to pay £20 million a year to become the club’s official shirt sponsor.
It is estimated that Manchester United currently generates around £80 million annually through its various commercial activities.
Back in November, London’s West End was reported by CB Richard Ellis to be the most expensive place in the world in which to rent office space. Around the same time, Cushman & Wakefield rated London as a whole as being the best city in the world in which to do business.
Editor’s notes: As of May 2023, Manchester United were still based in offices in Stratton Street in Mayfair, where they rented 11,500 square feet.
You can view an example of office space to rent on Stratton Street here.
However, in March 2023, it was announced that the football club would be vacating the Mayfair office and moving across town to Kensington, where they would be renting 16,000 square feet of office space plus a 7,414-square-foot roof terrace at The Kensington Building. The move would be made in the Autumn of 2023.
As of June 2026, Manchester United continued to rent office space at The Kensington Building. However, in November 2025, it had been reported that the club was exploring early termination options of its 10-year lease.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the chief executive officer of the Ineos chemicals group, purchased a 28 per cent stake in the club in February 2024 and triggered several cost-cutting measures, including redundancies, in an attempt to make the club as financially efficient as possible.
At the time, it was understood that Ratcliffe preferred to use the Ineos London office for United business, which was based at 38 Hans Crescent in Knightsbridge, less than a mile from Manchester United’s Kensington office.
On 22nd June 2026, it was announced that Manchester United had secured a 25-acre parcel of land for its stadium regeneration project.
The club purchased the land, located approximately 350m north-west of the current stadium at Old Trafford, from Indurent.
The wider 370-acre project would deliver around 15,000 new homes, including affordable housing, create 48,000 new jobs locally and over 90,000 nationally, and was forecast to add more than £7 billion a year to the UK economy.