The success (in terms of attention) of myfootballclub.co.uk has spawned an imitator Stateside. Mysoccerclubusa.com is a venture to create a fan-funded club in Scranton, Pennsylvania, best known as the setting for another American copy of a British success: the sitcom The Office. Indeed, the man behind it is an active member of MyFC himself. You'll [.

Myfootballclub.co.uk - a scheme to get 50,000 fans together to buy a football club and run it collectively - has attracted a lot of attention, and they already have 45,000 people pledged to support the venture. An interview on Wired with the founder of the site, Fulham fan William Brooks, gets into the topic quite interestingly, [...]

MyFootballClub announced today they have agreed to buy Ebbsfleet United, a non-league team in England with hopes of being promoted to the Football League for the first time.
Despite MyFootballClub's track record of acting very professionally since they launched their site in late April, businessman Will Brooks and his team at MyFootballClub are guilty of making five mistakes that could have easily been avoided:

1. The Independent newspaper knew who the club was before the MyFootballClub members did.

We've written before on myfootballclub.co.uk, the madcap scheme for 50,000+ football fans to buy an English club and run it themselves. I've been waiting for the backlash to start in the mainstream media on this, and now it has - writing in The Guardian, Dave Lee a Cambridge United supporter, one of the top [...]

Myfootballclub.co.uk and their thousands of members have agreed a deal to buy Ebbsfleet United, of the Blue Square Premier (Conference National), one rung below England's Football League. Doubts are already being voiced by those within the footballing establishment, with Birmingham's co-owner David Sullivan opining that it "it will be an utter disaster.

Ian at 200percent has been one of the most vocal online critics of myfootballclub.co.uk. Today he's been looking in detail at their legal documents, and raises some questions. I'm not sure any of them are "killer" but I think it's very valuable there are people like Ian questioning this venture seriously, and we need [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Myfootballclub.

The news this morning that myfootballclub.co.uk (henceforth MFC) are to purchase Ebbsfleet United has set-off a firestorm. Apparently BBC News has had over 600,000 hits on the story and the MFC website has crashed. Our own discussion here earlier today reflects the passions the purchase arouses, and there are very interesting points made for and against [.

Remember those crazy chaps at myfootballclub.co.uk, who were going to band together for 35 quid each to buy an English football club? It looks like they're about to pull it off, as they're in due diligence for the purchase of an as yet unnamed club, as their site explains: Over 53,000 signed up to phase [...]

MyFootballClub, the revolutionary website that launched earlier this Spring, is preparing to announce that it has agreed in principle to purchase a non-league football club.
According to The Independent newspaper, MyFootballClub will announce that an agreement has been made with a club from the BlueSquare Premier (aka Conference National, which is one league below League Two in England).