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Sports Direct International Plc

30 November 2016

Released: 30 November 2016

Sports Direct International Plc

30 November 2016

SPORTS DIRECT INTERNATIONAL PLC ("Sports Direct" or "the Company")

SHARE BUYBACK

Transaction in Own Shares

Sports Direct announces that on 29 November 2016 it purchased 1,937 of its ordinary shares from Citigroup Global Markets Limited (acting as the Company's broker) on the London Stock Exchange at a price of 297.3 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, the Company holds 47,477,868 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 593,124,501.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), detailed information about the individual purchases made by Citigroup Global Markets Limited is set out below.

Aggregated information:

 
Date of purchase:                               29 November 2016 
Number of ordinary shares purchased:            1,937 
Volume weighted average price paid per share:   297.3 
 

Transaction details:

 
Issuer name:         Sports Direct International Plc 
ISIN:                GB00B1QH8P22 
Intermediary name:   Citigroup Global Markets Limited 
Intermediary Code:   SBILGB2LXXX 
Timezone:            UTC 
Currency:            GBP 
                                                         -------------------------- 
 
 Transaction date     Transaction time         Volume     Price (p)   Platform code 
-------------------  -----------------------  ---------  ----------  -------------- 
 29/11/2016           08:00:02:020             3          295         XLON 
-------------------  -----------------------  ---------  ----------  -------------- 
 29/11/2016           08:12:23:909             50         298.5       XLON 
-------------------  -----------------------  ---------  ----------  -------------- 
 29/11/2016           08:12:23:911             284        298.5       XLON 
-------------------  -----------------------  ---------  ----------  -------------- 
 29/11/2016           08:13:00:444             224        294.1       XLON 
-------------------  -----------------------  ---------  ----------  -------------- 
 29/11/2016           08:13:00:447             213        294.1       XLON 
-------------------  -----------------------  ---------  ----------  -------------- 
 29/11/2016           08:15:44:031             495        298.3       XLON 
-------------------  -----------------------  ---------  ----------  -------------- 
 29/11/2016           08:19:58:464             334        298         XLON 
-------------------  -----------------------  ---------  ----------  -------------- 
 29/11/2016           08:23:14:258             334        298         XLON 
-------------------  -----------------------  ---------  ----------  -------------- 
 

Ends.

Sports Direct International plc

Matt Pearson, Acting Chief Financial Officer

T. 0344 245 9200

E. investor.relations@sportsdirect.com

KBA PR

Keith Bishop

T. 0207 734 9995

E. sd@kbapr.com

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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