• Club have had tax credits for £16m they spent on research
• Written academic papers on training and positional play

Brentford football club have received £3.23m in public money for research they have commissioned into sports science, medicine, training and tactics over the past two years.

Under the terms of the research and development (R&D) tax credit scheme, businesses can claim back 20% of the costs of a research project on the proviso that the results of the research are made widely available and ‘create an advance in the overall field’.