Mercury13 picks BizAway to run travel across multi-club portfolio

Women’s football ownership group Mercury13 has signed a multi-year partnership with business travel scale-up BizAway, appointing it as the group’s official travel management supplier.The deal covers Mercury13 and its portfolio clubs, including FC Como Women, Bristol City Women FC and FC Badalona Women, with BizAway given the exclusive designation as the group’s official travel management company.Lindsey Eckhouse, chief revenue officer at Mercury13, said: “Our ambition is to build the most professional and sustainable multi-club platform in women’s football. That requires the right systems and partners to scale with confidence. Travel is a critical operational function, and partnering with BizAway allows us to centralise and future proof that capability.”Mercury13 said the partnership is designed to streamline travel management through BizAway’s integrated platform, combining technology with dedicated human support.The group expects a single system to reduce operational complexity and create a consistent approach across markets as the portfolio expands, while improving the experience for players and staff navigating domestic and international schedules.BizAway said its platform and team would support travel coordination across the group, with an emphasis on simplifying logistics in an environment where travel planning can be complex and time-sensitive.Luca Carlucci, BizAway’s chief executive and co-founder, said: “We are very grateful for the trust that Mercury13 has placed in us. In professional sports, travel logistics can be extremely complex, but with the support of our platform and the expertise of our team, we aim to simplify the whole process. Our goal is precisely to free Mercury13 from this logistical burden so they can focus on what truly matters: performance both on and off the field”.Operational infrastructure has become a growing focus for multi-club platforms in women’s football as owners look to industrialise functions that can be replicated across teams, including travel, performance services and commercial operations.Mercury13 positioned the agreement, announced April 8, as part of a broader push to professionalise support systems around elite women’s sport, aligning off-pitch processes with its sporting and commercial ambitions.The partnership adds to a series of supplier and platform agreements by Mercury13 as it builds what it describes as an international multi-club model focused on acquiring controlling stakes in European women’s football teams.