Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Sportsdirect.COM Retail Limited pays suppliers in 26 days on average — 25 days past its stated terms

CRN 03406347 · Wholesale & retail trade · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 26 Apr 2026

26daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 25 days past the 1-day term they state.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers

Their stated terms: 1 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 0% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 4%
Reporting period: 27 Oct 2025 – 26 Apr 2026
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 21 Jul 2026

Self-reported figures from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 25 days past their stated terms

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–40

avg 26d

0 days40 days

reported avg 26 days their filed terms 1 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 63% 31–60 days 33% 61+ days 4%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #113242, period 27 Oct 2025 – 26 Apr 2026, filed 21 Jul 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Sportsdirect.COM Retail Limited pays 25 days past its own stated terms. 0% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 4% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2026 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports

29 → 26 days — getting faster

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 17 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

3 days faster across the window. From 29 days in H2 2023 to 26 in the H1 2026 filing; the dashed line marks the 1-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Sportsdirect.COM Retail Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 26 days against stated terms of 1 days; 0% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 4% took 61 days or longer. Filed 21 Jul 2026.

The direction is faster: from 29 days in H2 2023 to 26 now — 3 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 80% of the 815 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

That is 17 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2017) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

Offers e-invoicing

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

The Accounts Payable department is responsible for dispute resolution. Disputes are resolved by negotiation with individual suppliers to ensure that a resolution is reached before the payment due date.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	26	0%	4%	21 Jul 2026
H2 2025	28	35%	5%	23 Jan 2026
H1 2025	28	24%	4%	5 Jun 2025
H2 2024	28	17%	3%	6 Dec 2024
H1 2024	29	22%	6%	30 May 2024
H2 2023	29	20%	4%	15 Jan 2024
H1 2023	30	21%	5%	15 Aug 2023
H2 2022	29	19%	5%	20 Dec 2022
H1 2022	32	17%	6%	5 Aug 2022
H2 2021	30	19%	4%	6 Dec 2021
H1 2021	35	46%	9%	22 Sept 2021
H2 2020	32	38%	6%	30 Nov 2020
H1 2020	47	58%	21%	30 Nov 2020
H1 2019	41	47%	10%	30 May 2019
H2 2018	38	31%	8%	29 Nov 2018
H1 2018	45	32%	18%	29 May 2018
H2 2017	42	27%	9%	30 Nov 2017

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 21 Jul 1997
Registered office: UNIT A, SHIREBROOK, NG20 8RY

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 Jan 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 26-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 26-day vs a 1-day payment cycle.

≈ £10,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 26-day cycle — about £9,900 more than the same account would carry at 1-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 lets a supplier charge statutory interest and fixed compensation on invoices paid past agreed terms. Work out what a late invoice is worth → Whether it applies depends on your contract — check with an adviser.

Quick answers · Sportsdirect.COM Retail Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 3 days faster over the window (29 → 26 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 26; across their last 6 reports it ranged 26–29 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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What is a Payment Practices Report?

UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.

What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?

The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.

How often is this data updated?

Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.

Is this official government data?

The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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