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November 26, 2009 By: bobslayer Category: Fan Funding Sites

A brief overview of Fan Funding in Sport

MYFOOTBALLCLUB.COM
MyFootballClub.com launched in August 2007, to recruit at least 50,000 football enthusiasts from across the world to purchase an English association football club. On 23 January 2008, 95.89% of MyFC members had agreed to the purchase of a 75% share in Ebbsfleet United F.C., thereby authorising MyFC’s purchase of that club. With its purchase of a majority share of Ebbsfleet United, MyFootballClub became the first online community to fully run a professional sports club in history.
www.myfootballclub.com

Projects that are similar to MyFootballClub exist in both England and in at least 11 other countries. Biggleswade United inaugurated myBUFC in September 2007, which aims to put the management of that club in the hands of paid-up members. The People’s Club was launched in October 2007 and is a similar scheme looking to allow fans to acquire and run a lower-level English football club.
Projects outside the UK include:
Brazil: MTDF, or “Meu Time de Futebol,” was launched in January 2008
Denmark: Mitsuperligahold, which was launched in August 2007
France: Web F.C. allows its members, called “entraînautes,” to vote on strategic and tactical decisions relating to a lower-level French club in the Ligue de Basse-Normandie through a website.
Germany: Deinfussballklub.de was launched in April 2008
Israel: Web2Sport currently operates Hapoel Kiryay Shalom
Italy: Squadramia, which was started in January 2008, is an online community that seeks 20,000 members to buy an Italian football club. In late 2008 the web comunity purchased Santarcangelo Calcio 1926
Japan: Fujieda MYFC is a team playing in the Japanese regional leagues funded by online subscribers.
Poland: KupimyKlub.pl is a Polish project, was launched in May 2008.
Romania: Clubulmeudefotbal started on 7 July 2007
Russia: MyFootballClub.ru started on 1oth Jan 2007
Spain: miclubdefutbol.com was launched in January 2008
United States: MySoccerClubUSA aims to start a club from scratch and SaveTheVictory.org, is attempting to purchase the now-defunct San Francisco-based USL club, California Victory.

Projects that are similar to MyFootballClub exist in both England and in at least 11 other countries. Biggleswade United inaugurated myBUFC in September 2007, which aims to put the management of that club in the hands of paid-up members. The People’s Club was launched in October 2007 and is a similar scheme looking to allow fans to acquire and run a lower-level English football club.

Projects outside the UK include:
Brazil: MTDF, or “Meu Time de Futebol,” was launched in January 2008
Denmark: Mitsuperligahold, which was launched in August 2007
France: Web F.C. allows its members, called “entraînautes,” to vote on strategic and tactical decisions relating to a lower-level French club in the Ligue de Basse-Normandie.
Germany: Deinfussballklub.de was launched in April 2008
Israel: Web2Sport currently operates Hapoel Kiryay Shalom
Italy: Squadramia, which was started in January 2008, is an online community that seeks 20,000 members to buy an Italian football club. In late 2008 the web comunity purchased Santarcangelo Calcio 1926
Japan: Fujieda MYFC is a team playing in the Japanese regional leagues funded by online subscribers.
Poland: KupimyKlub.pl is a Polish project, was launched in May 2008.
Romania: Clubulmeudefotbal started on 7 July 2007
Russia: MyFootballClub.ru started on 1oth Jan 2007
Spain: miclubdefutbol.com was launched in January 2008
United States: MySoccerClubUSA aims to start a club from scratch and SaveTheVictory.org, is attempting to purchase the now-defunct San Francisco-based USL club, California Victory.

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