Supporters of the teams who threatened to form a breakaway European Super League are demanding radical change at their clubs – including representation at board level.
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Clear filterSupporters of the teams who threatened to form a breakaway European Super League are demanding radical change at their clubs – including representation at board level.
Not all supporters know how to report hate crime incidents, be they online or at the match, so we thought it would be useful to explain how.
The All Party Parliamentary Groups for Football Supporters and Women’s Football recently met in a joint event to discuss the topic of fan activism in the women’s game – and that discussion is available to watch online now.
As part of the ongoing fan-led mental health campaign #TerraceTalk we will be hosting a second panel discussion during Mental Health Awareness Week on Thursday 13th May from 6.00pm-7.30pm.
If anybody had told us that the FSA would end up in a Zoom meeting with the Prime Minister collaborating on what could be done to stop a European Super League breakaway, we probably wouldn’t have believed you.
To mark this year’s International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, both the All-Party Parliamentary Groups for Football Supporters and for Global LGBT+ Rights invites FSA members to a joint panel on LGBT+ representation, and combatting discrimination, in football.
Protest action by Manchester United fans caused the postponement of their home fixture against Liverpool at the weekend – and more could follow says FSA chair Malcolm Clarke.
You might think that tapping the ball into the net from a mere six yards away might be easy. But as Benfica forward Haris Seferović demonstrated this week, it’s harder than it looks.
Ramadan 2021 has seen a first for English football: a break in play to allow a footballer to break their fast.
Social media companies must do more to stop online abuse. That is why this weekend we are coming together with English football and other sports and organisations, to boycott social media and demand change.
Trust Oldham have become the latest supporter group to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with their club, Oldham Athletic.
The FA, Premier League, EFL, FA Women’s Super League, FA Women’s Championship, PFA, LMA, PGMOL, Kick It Out, Women in Football and the Football Supporters’ Association will unite for a social media boycott from 3pm on Friday 30th April to 11.59pm on Monday 3rd May, in response to the ongoing and sustained discriminatory abuse received online by players and many others connected to football.
Former-Spurs forward Vincent Janssen is now plying his trade in Mexico and it looks like he hasn’t lost his touch. An amazing effort and when 2021 is done, this might go down as Miss of the Year.
Earlier this week the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport secretary of state Oliver Dowden announced the launch of the fan-led review of football governance. Today its Terms of Reference were announced – you can see the details here.
The idea of the European Super League is dead, at least for now, but the hard work to ensure that it can never return is only just beginning, and the first step in that process is demonstrating that there is political support for the much-needed reforms to our game.
Following the collapse of the European Superleague, the Prime Minister reasserted the Government’s committment to a fan-led review of football governance.
Following the collapse of the European Super League, Football Supporters Europe, the pan-European body which represents football supporters across the continent and of which the FSA is a member, have released this statement:
Appeasement of football’s richest clubs doesn’t work. The vultures circle, they’re always after more and they only get stronger when you feed their greed.
The next meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Football Supporters will be held on Tuesday 27th April at 1pm, on the topic of fan activism and the women’s game.
Earlier today, the chief executive of the FSA Kevin Miles, along with other fan representatives, met with the prime minister Boris Johnson and secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Oliver Dowden. Joined by senior figures from the FA and the Premier League, the meeting was called to discuss the response to the threat of a European Super League – below is our statement on the meeting.
