Football regulator to recommend cost controls in landmark report with 94% of clubs making loss

Report published on Tuesday before consultation periodIt will have recommendations to improve sustainabilityThe Independent Football Regulator (IFR) is to recommend clubs introduce greater cost controls in its long-awaited State of the Game report, to be published on Tuesday.The 250-page draft report, with a final version to follow in the spring after an eight-week public consultation beginning this week, will paint a damning picture of the financial state of English men’s football, including the stark finding that 94% of the top 116 clubs are loss-making. Continue reading…

The Independent Football Regulator is to recommend clubs introduce greater cost controls in Tuesday’s long-awaited State of the Game report The Independent Football Regulator (IFR) is to recommend clubs introduce greater cost controls in its long-awaited State of the Game report, to be published on Tuesday. The 250-page draft report, with a final version to follow in the spring after an eight-week public consultation beginning this week, will paint a damning picture of the financial state of English men’s football, including the stark finding that 94% of the top 116 clubs are loss-making.

The report will include a series of recommendations for the regulator and clubs to improve the sustainability, with the IFR chair, David Kogan, and chief executive, Richard Monks, to provide more details at a press conference in Manchester on Tuesday. That event is likely to be dominated by questions about whether the regulator could force the sale of Manchester City if the mass guilty verdicts of an independent commission are upheld on appeal. As administrators of an enhanced owners, directors and