Member

English football’s success is built on its ability to plan strategically for the long term. From collective solidarity arrangements to investments in youth academies, stadiums and infrastructure, this success depends on stability. The current arrangements, which have a three-year notice period for either party, are products of long-term frameworks that give clubs across the pyramid the confidence to invest. By explicitly restricting the duration of those agreements, the Government are not incentivising the continued success of English football; they are actively undermining it.