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Legislate that all professional football clubs are 51% fan owned as in Germany.

Submitted on Wednesday 21st April 2021

Rejected on Monday 26th April 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Legislate that all professional football clubs are 51% fan owned as in Germany.

Petition Details

The past days gave shown that football cannot be allowed to be controlled by billionaire investors. It is the fans game. We need Government help to bring the beautiful game back to the people.

Additional Information

This cannot be done without legislation. Every MP who claims to be a football fan (and they all do) must use their power to wrestle control away from the money men.


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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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