DIRECT SOCCER LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC331369 · ltd · incorporated 2007-09-24

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Steady and tidy — no seller pressure yet. Approach only if an angle opens.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 18.6y old — refinance window within 12 months

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jan 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 47640

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 65/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 18.6y

50/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 18.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)

Directors & officers

3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

49 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-01-31	2024-01-31
Average employees	3900	3900

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 capital
• 1 incorporation
• 1 resolution

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2026-01-28
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capital · SH02
2026-01-26
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capital · SH08
2026-01-26
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2026-01-26
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-06-25
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accounts · AA
2024-09-23
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2023-08-22
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2022-09-27
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2021-10-27
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2020-06-03
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2019-08-08
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2018-09-11
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2017-10-06
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2016-06-10
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2015-10-30
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2013-04-12
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Charge registered #4
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2013-04-01
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GIBSON, Joyce appointed
director
2013-02-20
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2007-11-22
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2007-10-10
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2007-09-24
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Company incorporated
As DIRECT SOCCER LIMITED
2007-09-24
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GIBSON, Joyce appointed
secretary
2007-09-24
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GIBSON, Bryce appointed
director

Owner dependency

91/100

Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Bryce Gibson Individual · British · DOB 06/1960 · age 66	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	24/09/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2007-09-24

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC47640 — SIC 47640

Registered office

32 Westfield Road

Broughty Ferry

Dundee

DD5 1ED

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-10-31

Last made up to: 2025-01-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-08

Last: 2025-09-24

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

GIBSON, Joyce→

secretary · appointed 2007-09-24

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Active

GIBSON, Bryce→

director · ~66y · appointed 2007-09-24

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Active

GIBSON, Joyce→

director · ~59y · appointed 2013-04-01

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Active

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown

		Type	Properties
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Bank of Scotland PLC	A registered charge	1 property	12/04/2013	—
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Bank of Scotland PLC	Floating charge	1 property	20/02/2013	—
outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Standard security	1 property	22/11/2007	—
outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Floating charge	1 property	10/10/2007	—

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Recent filings (49 total)

capital-alter-shares-subdivision

capital · SH02

2026-01-28

capital-name-of-class-of-shares

capital · SH08

2026-01-26

memorandum-articles

incorporation · MA

2026-01-26

resolution

resolution · RESOLUTIONS

2026-01-26

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-10-10

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-06-25

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-10-04

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-09-23

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-09-26

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-08-22

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-09-30

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-09-27

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-10-27

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-09-27

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-09-24