Retail · registry year 2024 · HQ MN
Play It Again Sports Franchise
A Winmark Corp brand operating in the retail sector, franchising since 1988. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Play It Again Sports, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $275K – $420K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 300
- Total locations · Small network
- $750K
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry play-it-again-sports Play It Again Sports
Play It Again Sports needs $275K–$420K to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical retail franchise.
- LO $275K
- HI $420K
- FEE $25K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 300
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #85/223
- UNT# #179/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Sport Clips ($263K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Play It Again Sports (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Play It Again Sports's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 1.7% net unit growth (YoY) 39/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where Play It Again Sports's investment ranks nationally
Play It Again Sports's listed Item 7 low of $275K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
Play It Again Sports vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$275,000 Around the middle lower than 39% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $25K
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $750K
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
10 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Retail
- Subsector
- sporting goods
- Founded
- 1983
- Franchising Since
- 1988
- Headquarters
- MN
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Play It Again Sports
This Play It Again Sports page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Play It Again Sports.
Small-network FDD fields for Play It Again Sports
Signature read: 300 locations · Item 7 low $275K
Play It Again Sports, a Winmark Corp franchise, has been franchising since 1988 - 5 years after the concept was founded in 1983 , currently with 300 total locations (300 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the retail sector, headquartered in MN. The listed total initial investment is $275K to $420K, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $25K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
The brand charges 5.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties. Play It Again Sports has an Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry, a voluntary disclosure under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $750K; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $38K as an arithmetic illustration only. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
The unit count trend here is positive -- Play It Again Sports posted 1.7% net growth year-over-year (15 openings, 10 closures). This is a reported network-size change, not a measure of profitability, demand, or franchisee outcomes.
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Related reading for Play It Again Sports: Understanding FDDs , Play It Again Sports lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How Play It Again Sports's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Play It Again Sports , both outside HQ state MN : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($275K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (300 here).
What to do with this
Play It Again Sports at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Play It Again Sports scores 70/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $275K – $420K entry cost runs below the typical retail franchise.
- Ranks #85 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Sport Clips sits at a comparable investment level ($263K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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