Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 640673
Sport Clips franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Sport Clips cost $236,800 to $580,500 in the 2026 FDD; the median unit sold $416,189 in the franchisor's 2025 calendar year figures; 8.0% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Sport Clips, Inc.. FDD issued 2026-04-01. Fiscal year end 2025-12-27. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
single store.
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $30,000 | Item 5, p. 9 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | 6% of Net Sales, weekly | Item 6, p. 10 |
| Advertising fund | Advertising the greater of $300 per week or 5% of Net Sales; plus a 1% technology fee and 1% stylist recruitment fee | Item 6, p. 10 |
single store; a 3-store multi-unit development agreement is $69,500 and a 2-store one $54,500.
What a unit sells
Item 19 is optional and is the franchisor's own representation. It is shown here as filed, with the franchisor's measure, sample and period, and nothing is estimated where it is missing.
| Measure | gross sales, mature franchised stores, calendar 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | 1,645 units: 1,645 mature franchised stores (more than two years in operation) open the entire year of 2025, shown as a sales-band distribution; the Expense Reports that follow give average and median expenses by sales band for a smaller reporting set | |
| Period | 2025 calendar year | |
Revenue to investment
Formula: Item 19 median / Item 7 total (midpoint, low, high). A ratio of 1.00 means one year of median unit revenue equals the investment; it says nothing about profit.
How many units open and close
| Franchised units | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start of year | 1,781 | 1,785 | 1,732 |
| Opened | 28 | 27 | 14 |
| Terminated | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Not renewed | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 23 | 75 | 26 |
| End of year | 1,785 | 1,732 | 1,702 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 75 | 83 | 86 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 48; Table 3 totals p. 56.
Closures are the franchisor's Item 20 counts of units terminated, not renewed, or ceased for other reasons, summed over 2023–2025 and divided by franchised units at the start of 2023. Units the franchisor reacquired are not closures. This is an Item 20 count, not a failure rate.
As filed: the 2023 row sums to 1,786, not the 1,785 printed; the 2024 and 2025 rows sum. The filing notes that 22 of the 75 outlets ceased in 2024 failed to reopen after the pandemic.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Sport Clips Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-04-01, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 640673, registry record). The PDF is the franchisor's and is not hosted here; the item and page beside each figure is where to check it. Item 7 and Item 20 tables were read cell by cell; Item 19 was read by hand; each Item 20 year was checked to sum (start + opened − exits = end) before it was recorded.
Informational only, not professional, legal or investment advice. Unitnomics computes from the filing and does not advise on, rank, or refer to any franchise. Last reviewed: November 2026.