Revealed: England’s most financially sustainable football club. Who came top?
FAIR GAME this morning revealed the nation’s best club when it comes to financial sustainability. The top three clubs are Plymouth Argyle, Forest Green Rovers and Portsmouth, and it was left to TalkSport presenter Ian Beach to reveal the winner in the video above.
The scoring came from publicly available financial data and was crunched by a wide range of financial experts from across the UK, including Mark Middling, lecturer of accounting at Northumbria University; former EFL finance analyst and founder of Goal Assist Joshua Price; finance expert and consultant for Sheffield Hallam University Adam Davis; lecturer Dan Plumley from Sheffield University; Christina Philippou senior finance lecturer at Portsmouth University; and Richard Evans lecturer at Birkbeck College.
The award is one of four strands that form part of the Fair Game Index. The other three strands are good governance, fan engagement and equality standards. The four are all key components of the Fan-Led Review set out by Tracey Crouch and are expected to be key elements of a new state of play survey for football run by a new Independent Regulator for football.
The Index is the most comprehensive survey of English football ever conducted and the full results will be revealed on Monday. To register for access login here
