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Ensure football fans hold majority stake in clubs

Submitted by Lewis Foran on Wednesday 18th December 2024

Published on Tuesday 25th February 2025

Current status: Closed

Closed: Monday 25th August 2025

Signatures: 35

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Clubs ~ England ~ English football ~ Ensure ~ European countries ~ Europeans ~ Fan ~ Football ~ football fans ~ Germany ~ investment ~ Major ~ Mandatory ~ Owned ~ position ~ Positions ~ Profiteering ~ Rule ~ semi ~ Signed ~ stable ~ Stake ~ sustainability ~ work

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Ensure football fans hold majority stake in clubs

Petition Details

We want to make the 50+1 rule mandatory within the pro and semi pro leagues in England, which means at least 50% plus one share of a club must be owned by members' associations.

Additional Information

We believe this gives fans more control of the club and allows them to have more of a say than an outside investor(s)/ investment group.

We believe this will ensure that English football is fairer and has a better, more stable and sustainable structure of ownership for the future. We feel this will stop investors/ investment groups seeking profit over the needs of the club.

We think this form of ownership has been successful across European countries, such as Germany; which we think is a positive sign that it does work, and it works well.


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