Football clubs news

A number of UK leisure companies and operators have launched initiatives to help ease the pressures on local communities and the National Health Service (NHS), ... More

A new service aims to offer sports organisations the opportunity to accurately assess, record and value the impact of their community activities. The Sport Value ... More

Scotland's new multi-million pound Regional Performance Centre for Sport has opened in Dundee. The £32m multi-sport facility houses a full-size indoor artificial pitch and an ... More

City Football Group (CFG), owner of Manchester City FC and a host of other clubs around the world, has secured a major investment deal with ... More

A surge in investments made into the booming esports sector is now creating competition for traditional sports. The second annual Esports Survey, which surveyed more ... More

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to introduce measures which would allow football fans to hire and fire their club's directors – if his party ... More

Professional football clubs should introduce wide-ranging measures – such as introducing returnable beer cups – to eliminate single-use plastics from their stadiums. That is the ... More

Financially troubled Bury Football Club has been expelled by the English Football League (EFL) after it failed to secure a new owner. The indebted club ... More

One of England's oldest, existing professional football clubs is facing extinction and expulsion from the English Football League (EFL). The troubled Bury Football Club, which ... More

Forest Green Rovers chair Dale Vince has resubmitted a planning application for a 5,000-capacity stadium development dubbed the "greenest football venue in the world". Plans ... More

A group of 12 English Football League (EFL) clubs have launched a programme looking to tackle loneliness and inactivity among older fans. The initiative will ... More

Spanish giant Real Madrid has replaced English Premier League club Manchester United as the world's richest club. Generating record revenues of €750.9m (US$852, £651m), Real ... More

European Leagues, the body representing European football clubs, has called on the continent's governing body to re-evaluate the way it dispenses prize money from its ... More

Sunderland Athletic Football Club (SAFC), which has suffered a spectacular fall from grace with two successive relegations, will be sold to a consortium fronted by ... More

A new funding scheme has been launched to aid the retention of adult male teams within grassroots football clubs. The £1m Retain the Game fund ... More

Norwich City Football Club (NCFC) has launched a £3.5m Canaries mini-bond to fund a new high-performance Academy – giving supporters the chance to directly invest ... More

As a new year approaches, CLADglobal brings you our list of some of the most anticipated leisure buildings expected in 2018, from museums and science ... More

Part of the safe standing section at Celtic FC’s Parkhead stadium has been closed temporarily as a result of “serious incidents of unsafe behaviour”. According ... More

West Bromwich Albion (WBA) has become the first Premier League football club to officially declare its interest in creating a standing area for supporters at ... More

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has taken inspiration from Premier League football clubs and installed hybrid turf at its National Cricket Performance Centre ... More

Sporting Future, the first piece of major sports policy in over a decade, will be “examined” by the Labour Party if it gets into power ... More

Manifestos launched by the major political parties ahead of the 2017 General Election have set out their stalls on sport and physical activity policy, with ... More

Premier League football clubs Manchester United and Manchester City have clubbed together to donate £1m (US$1.3m, €1.2m) to the emergency fund set up in the ... More

The UK government has poured cold water on the possibility of allowing safe standing areas within Premier League football grounds, claiming that it “remains unconvinced” ... More

Grassroots football clubs that want to develop more teams for girls and disabled people will be able to bid for a share of a £1.5m ... More