Tag: regulator

Audit regulator looking into Manchester City accounting
20 October 2026 Off

Audit regulator looking into Manchester City accounting

By Total Football News

The UK audit regulator has confirmed it is leading inquiries into accounting irregularities at Manchester City.

The Financial Reporting Council confirmed in a letter to the House of Commons business select committee it had taken over “regulatory consideration” of the case from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales on 30 September.

No formal investigation has started, but the FRC is making inquiries into the case.

It comes

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Man City charges: Football regulator will quit if independence compromised
14 October 2026 Off

Man City charges: Football regulator will quit if independence compromised

By Total Football News

The independent panel will hold a sanctions hearing – which could take months to convene – to decide on City’s punishment.

The club can appeal both the guilty verdicts and the sanction, leaving the league in a state of uncertainty.

City’s punishment could range from a huge fine, being deducted points or being ejected from the Premier League.

Asked how crucial it is that it was resolved as soon as

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Football regulator contacts West Ham over ‘serious allegations’ against Sullivan
9 June 2026 Off

Football regulator contacts West Ham over ‘serious allegations’ against Sullivan

By Total Football News

One woman, Florence (not her real name), said she felt forced to have sex with Sullivan in 1999 when she went to his Essex mansion for a business meeting

Sullivan looked at her modelling portfolio, she said, and then asked her to strip down to her underwear, which she did.

“I’ll give you a little bit of work because you’ve taken the trouble,” she recalled him saying. But she said

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Derby County: Independent football regulator faces ‘defining test’ over potential Rams investment
5 June 2026 Off

Derby County: Independent football regulator faces ‘defining test’ over potential Rams investment

By Total Football News

English football’s independent regulator faces a “defining test” as Saudi Arabian government official Turki Al-Sheikh attempts to invest in Derby County, says Amnesty International.

Al-Sheikh, who has previously owned football clubs in Spain and Egypt and is now among the most powerful figures in world boxing, is looking to buy a stake in the Championship side.

As chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority – and someone who is

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Bad owners could be forced to sell clubs, says football regulator chair
9 October 2025 Off

Bad owners could be forced to sell clubs, says football regulator chair

By Total Football News

Kogan met with representatives from 110 clubs to lay out the remit of the regulator on Wednesday and insisted it was a “proactive meeting” with a “high level of engagement” from the National League to the Premier League.

“It’s a job that’s actually really important, because if we get it wrong, if the world of football gets it wrong, the extraordinary progress that’s been made necessary will vanish incredibly quickly,”

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David Kogan: Government donor close to being named Football regulator
24 April 2025 Off

David Kogan: Government donor close to being named Football regulator

By Total Football News

A former BBC journalist and a director of the Women’s Sports Group, Kogan helped negotiate a rights deal for the Women’s Super League and Women’s Championship last year.

He was the Premier League’s media rights advisor from 1998 to 2015. He also has close links to the Labour party, having written two books about them, and having made a number of donations to the party’s candidates.

English Football League chairman

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Rick Parry: EFL chairman says football regulator bill could become law by summer
11 March 2025 Off

Rick Parry: EFL chairman says football regulator bill could become law by summer

By Total Football News

The Football Governance Bill could become law by the summer, says English Football League chairman Rick Parry.

The bill, which was reintroduced by the Labour government in October, will reach its report stage on Tuesday, when it will be examined in the House of Lords.

It will establish a first independent regulator for the professional men’s game in England and was initially tabled under the former Conservative government in March

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Football regulator: EFL chief hopes ‘seminal review’ can end Premier League ‘deadlock’
13 November 2024 Off

Football regulator: EFL chief hopes ‘seminal review’ can end Premier League ‘deadlock’

By Total Football News

Parry also expressed concern at “a whole raft of competition law cases which are impacting on the way that we run the game”.

He continued: “Having been left more or less free to set their own rules for many years, now the competition law authorities… seem to be saying, ‘we don’t think that the people running football are doing a terribly good job of it’.

“To be looking over our

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Football regulator needed because of Premier League clubs’ ‘greed’ and ‘arrogance’
14 May 2024 0

Football regulator needed because of Premier League clubs’ ‘greed’ and ‘arrogance’

By Total Football News

A football regulator is needed because Premier League clubs are “arrogant”, says Bolton chair Sharon Brittan.

She was addressing a select committee on Parliament’s Football Governance Bill on Tuesday.

The legislation would grant powers to a body, independent of government and football authorities, to oversee clubs in England’s top five men’s tiers.

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said he was supportive of the bill’s objectives but was concerned about

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David Sullivan: West Ham owner opposes introduction of independent football regulator
19 March 2024 0

David Sullivan: West Ham owner opposes introduction of independent football regulator

By Total Football News
Fans protest outside of Stamford Bridge
Football supporters across the country protested after the announcement of the European Super League in 2021

West Ham United owner David Sullivan says the Premier League “may cease” to be the world’s top division if an independent regulator is introduced.

Such a regulator would be brought in if the Football Governance Bill – which had its first reading in Parliament on Tuesday – is made law.

The UK government announced

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