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Introduce the 50 + 1 rule to all professional football teams in EPL / EFL

Submitted on Wednesday 21st April 2021

Rejected on Monday 26th April 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Introduce the 50 + 1 rule to all professional football teams in EPL / EFL

Petition Details

Introduce Legislation similar to the German Bundesliga 50+1 rule to give football fans in the football league more of a say in protecting their club / heritage of the league

Additional Information

Football heritage is a massive part of the culture of this country and it deserves to be protected from its self, the coup that attempted to break away and form the super league is evidence that game needs more regulation in place to prevent the game being taken away from the fans.


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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: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/583310

You may be interested to know that 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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