Improving Football Governance through Supporter Involvement and Community Ownership (2013)

Between 2011 and 2013 SD Europe delivered a project supported by the European Commission, taking a coordinated approach to the development of democratic supporter organisations across Europe, with an aim of increasing the involvement of football supporters in the governance of clubs, leagues and national associations.

The project worked with 9 partners in 8 countries, each with different national and local contexts, organisational capacity and starting points, but did not take a ‘one size fits all approach’. By giving the partners in each country the resources and chance to lead, the project was sensitive to those different settings, tailoring the development of knowledge, workshops, toolkits and networking to suit local circumstances.

These toolkits set out the very serious issues faced by those working to improve governance and financial stability in football and what organised supporters can do to tackle them.

Read the project report here.