Sports modular specialist appoints administrators

A family-run modular business in Yorkshire that specialised in football projects has fallen into administration.

Mockba Ltd – trading as Mockba Modular – called in administrators Carrie James and Simon Carvill-Biggs of Oury Clark, according to a notice on the official Gazette site last week.

Ossett-based Mockba Modular was established in 2016.

In its most recent accounts for the year to 31 July 2024, it reported current assets of £317,100 but just £117 of cash at bank and in hand.

The firm owed £178,700 in short-term repayable bank loans and overdrafts, and £36,600 repayable after more than 12 months.

It employed a monthly average of seven staff below director level, the accounts showed.

In a LinkedIn post in December, its sole director Pavels Matvejevs said: “Some clients [have] faced planning or other issues, leading to incomplete projects.”

Mockba Modular’s project portfolio includes steel-framed modular buildings that the company’s still-active website describes as “versatile” and “eco-friendly”.

According to its website, it has built facilities for Sheffield Wednesday (itself in administration since last October) and Huddersfield Town’s training grounds.

Mockba Modular also became Sheffield Wednesday’s principal partner and shirt sponsor for the 2024/25 season.

The firm’s logo appeared on the front of the team’s shirts as part of this commercial deal, which is no longer active.

Companies House records show that Matvejevs is listed as the sole director of a newly established firm called Mockba Modular Group.

This company, also based in Ossett, was incorporated on 29 December 2025.

Construction News contacted Oury Clark for further information.

Mockba Modular is the latest in a long list of modular firms to experience difficulties.

Offsite specialists Elements Europe, Merit Holdings and Thurston Group all fell into administration last year.

However, former directors of Merit have now set up a new firm and Yorkshire-based Thurston was rescued by a buyer last month.

Other high-profile failures in the modular housing space have been Ilke Homes and Legal & General Modular, who both called time on production in 2023 after years of losses.