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The Football Supporters’ Association’s 2024 Awards are fast approaching, and we need your help once more in highlighting the best the game has to offer – with nominations now open. Last year saw Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah pick

Torquay United Supporters Trust (TUST) have smashed the fundraising target they set as part of their community share offer, and have taken an increased stake in the Devon club as a result.

This weekend, Fans For Diversity campaign manager Hannah Kumari was in Merseyside with the Frank Soo foundation for an event at Prescot Cables FC to honour the pioneering East Asian player and coach.

There was an upset in the Polish Cup this week, in the round of 64, when third tier Piast Gliwice knocked out the Premier League’s Hutnik Krakow on penalties after a mad 3-3 draw. It was Daniel Hoyo-Kowalski’s freakish penalty miss that ultimately cost his side the shootout. Unlucky.

Yesterday the Home Office released the football-related arrests stats for last season and, similar to the previous season, they showed a slight increase. Rather than repeat the Home Office press release verbatim, we took some time to look at the numbers and our initial thoughts are laid out below:

Each year the FSA’s networks and wider membership democratically elect a National Council and Board to represent them and develop policy  – minutes from the National Council and Board meetings are available online.

Liverpool and West Ham United supporters last night demonstrated together in opposition to rising ticket prices and clampdowns on concessions, in a protest backed by the Football Supporters’ Association.

West Ham United and Liverpool fans are joining forces at tomorrow’s Carabao Cup match in a show of solidarity over rising ticket prices and attacks on concessions. The protest has been organised by FSA-member groups Hammers United, Old School Hammers and Spirit of Shankly. 

Derby County took full advantage of Cardiff’s rotten start to the season this week, beating them 1-0 at Pride Park, but Ebou Adams should have made it two at the end of the game. The midfielder took mercy on the Blues though, delivering what will probably go down as the miss of the season.

The FA Cup retains its importance to fans of the non-league game, who are overwhelmingly in favour of retaining replays in the competition’s qualifying rounds, according to an FSA survey.

It’s not all campaigns at the FSA – our governance and training manager Nic Cave (below) provides members with training and resources to help them perform at the very top of their game when it comes to running supporters’ groups and community-owned clubs.

Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) response to UEFA letter reports. 

FSA associate members Fulham Lillies say their first ever event, which was held at Craven Cottage, was a “resounding success”. Game Changers – Empowering Women Through Our Love of Football took place last month and brought together women from a range of Premier League teams for a day designed to “uplift women in the football community”.

It’s international week and there were some truly outstanding goals scored across the globe – but we’re ignoring them all for some world class cheating from the Italian sixth division. The way he holds his hands up after the offence is absolutely magnificent. “I was going for the ball ref…”

Congratulations to FSA Board member Sachin (Sash) Patel who has been nominated in the National Diversity Awards’ Positive Role Model Award for Race, Religion & Faith – the awards are set to take place in Liverpool on Friday 4th October.

Football ticket prices have caught the attention of Parliamentarians with Ian Lavery MP tabling an Early Day Motion (EDM) criticising clubs for exploiting supporter loyalty, increasing costs and attacking concessions. 

Worthing FC’s Danny Cashman is one of the stars of this week’s #ICYMI. The National League South side’s attacker finished off a fantastic counter-attacking move away at Boreham Wood this week, sealing all three points for the Mackerel Men.

Aston Villa fans have called the club “out of touch” for charging up to £97 a ticket for home Champions League matches this season.

The Football Supporters’ Association hosted Football Governance Bill: What next? in Parliament on Tuesday as around 30 new MPs and Peers met to discuss the incoming legislation – joined by EFL chair Rick Parry and FSA chair Tom Greatrex.

Wales are heading out to Montenegro next week as their UEFA Nations League campaign gets underway and our FSA Cymru team have a handy guide for those of you making the trip.