Transaction in Own Shares

RNS Number : 9921B

Sports Direct International Plc

10 April 2017

Released: 10 April 2017

Sports Direct International Plc

10 April 2017

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

SHARE BUYBACK

Transaction in Own Shares

Sports Direct announces that on 7 April 2017 it purchased 8,871 of its ordinary shares from Citigroup Global Markets Limited (acting as the Company's broker) on the London Stock Exchange at a price of 299.9 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, the Company holds 79,310,534 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 561,291,835.

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:

Platform code	BATE
Date of purchase:	07-Apr-17
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	1,510
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	299.89

Platform code	XLON
Date of purchase:	07-Apr-17
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	4,003
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	299.87

Platform code	CHIX
Date of purchase:	07-Apr-17
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	1,658
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	299.88

Platform code	TRQX
Date of purchase:	07-Apr-17
Number of ordinary shares purchased:	1,700
Volume weighted average price paid per share:	299.88

Transaction details:

Transaction date	Transaction time	Volume	Price (p)	Platform code
07/04/2017	08:10:00:369	272	299.9	BATE
07/04/2017	08:10:00:372	67	299.9	TRQX
07/04/2017	08:10:00:374	199	299.9	CHIX
07/04/2017	08:10:00:376	273	299.9	TRQX
07/04/2017	08:10:00:378	141	299.9	CHIX
07/04/2017	08:10:00:379	301	299.9	XLON
07/04/2017	08:10:00:381	208	299.9	XLON
07/04/2017	08:10:05:932	6	299.9	XLON
07/04/2017	08:10:08:912	39	299.8	XLON
07/04/2017	08:10:08:916	610	299.8	XLON
07/04/2017	08:10:08:917	83	299.8	BATE
07/04/2017	08:15:59:830	340	299.8	TRQX
07/04/2017	08:15:59:833	221	299.8	XLON
07/04/2017	08:15:59:834	128	299.8	XLON
07/04/2017	08:16:41:336	122	299.8	XLON
07/04/2017	11:04:49:964	260	299.9	XLON
07/04/2017	11:04:49:965	340	299.9	TRQX
07/04/2017	11:04:49:967	414	299.9	XLON
07/04/2017	11:04:49:969	340	299.9	CHIX
07/04/2017	11:04:49:971	340	299.9	BATE
07/04/2017	11:04:49:973	94	299.8	BATE
07/04/2017	11:11:40:217	61	299.9	CHIX
07/04/2017	11:11:41:196	340	299.8	CHIX
07/04/2017	11:13:40:424	381	299.9	BATE
07/04/2017	11:15:17:543	382	299.9	XLON
07/04/2017	11:15:17:546	465	299.9	XLON
07/04/2017	11:15:17:548	103	299.9	BATE
07/04/2017	11:15:17:550	237	299.9	BATE
07/04/2017	11:15:17:554	340	299.9	CHIX
07/04/2017	11:15:17:558	340	299.9	TRQX
07/04/2017	11:48:05:486	237	299.9	CHIX
07/04/2017	12:34:38:018	107	299.9	XLON
07/04/2017	12:34:38:020	340	299.9	TRQX
07/04/2017	12:34:38:022	740	299.9	XLON