{"id":482780,"date":"2026-03-18T20:37:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482780\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T20:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:37:05","slug":"sir-james-dyson-buys-50-per-cent-of-bath-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/482780\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir James Dyson buys 50 per cent of Bath Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dyson will become a co-owner with Craig in Bath Rugby, the holding company which owns the club, the Recreation Ground stadium \u2013 soon to undergo a \u00a370m redevelopment as Arena 1865 \u2013 and the training ground at the opulent Farleigh House. It is understood that a lot of the club\u2019s existing debt \u2013 \u00a317m in their 2024 accounts \u2013 will be wiped out with Dyson\u2019s investment, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the club I have supported for most of my life,\u201d Dyson said. \u201cMy children and my grandchildren do so, too. I stood on the terraces and have watched the high moments as well as the difficult years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBruce deserves enormous respect for rebuilding the club to be the force that it is today and I am not here to change that. I am here to support, just as I have for the past 45 years, but now with greater commitment and responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Craig, who <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/rugby-union\/2024\/06\/11\/bruce-craig-interview-bath-owner-premiership-final\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bought 100 per cent of Bath<\/a> in 2010, added: \u201cThis has never been a short-term project. From the beginning, the aim has been to build something resilient, competitive and worthy of the club\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJames understands Bath first and foremost as a supporter and a friend. His family has stood behind the club for decades and it always felt inevitable that our paths would align in this way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will continue to run Bath and together we will strengthen its foundations, realise the new stadium and build the club for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Bath confirmed that they had completed and passed the additional salary cap audit for the 2024-25 season, a routine undertaking carried out by Prem Rugby for the champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dyson will become a co-owner with Craig in Bath Rugby, the holding company which owns the club, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[98245,48283,5903,23451,171589,217,101,5438,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-482780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-bath-rugby","tag-gallagher-premiership","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-union","tag-sir-james-dyson","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}