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Enact legislation to ensure the protection of our Football Clubs from owners.

Submitted on Wednesday 21st April 2021

Rejected on Tuesday 27th April 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Enact legislation to ensure the protection of our Football Clubs from owners.

Petition Details

Have a legal framework in place to stop football clubs being used as purely money making business by unsavoury owners. They must be held accountable by their fans similar to the German system.

Additional Information

The latest attempt to “Steal”‘the top 6 clubs away from the fans to start a European Football League was a prime example on what the owners want to do. They want our English Clubs on the global market and they do not care about their traditions ans links to their local communities.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action:

'Enforce the “50+1” Rule for professional football club ownership in the UK': petition.parliament.uk/petitions/583310

You might like to know that, on 19 April, the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden MP said that he was appalled by the announcement that a handful of clubs are proposing to form their own breakaway European league, and said the Government would not hesitate to protect one of our greatest national institutions: football. The Culture Secretary said that the Government would back the football authorities to stop this move, and if the football authorities couldn’t act, the Government would. The Culture Secretary said the Government would "put everything on the table to prevent this from happening."

You can read the Culture Secretary's full statement on the European Super League here: www.gov.uk/government/speeches/statement-by-oliver-dowden-on-the-european-super-league

Since you started your petition it has also been announced that all six Premier League teams that were initially involved in the European Super League have withdrawn. You can read a report of this news here: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56823501

Further, on 19 April the Government announced a 'Fan-led review of football governance', which will explore ways of improving the governance, ownership and financial sustainability of clubs in English football, building on the strengths of the football pyramid. You can read more about this review here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/fan-led-review-of-football-governance

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