Consortium plans to structure club to allow fans to own Tassie A-League team

TASMANIANS could own a slice of a proposed state team in the national soccer competition, documents show.

Plans for the public to be offered shares in the franchise are outlined in emails between the consortium behind the proposal and the Department of Premier and Cabinet Office.

The proposal for a Tasmanian side in the A-League would model the entity’s ownership structure on European superpower clubs Barcelona and Bayern Munich, Right to Information documents reveal.

In the emails, a representative for the interstate-based consortium said its financial backers would adopt the structure used by some of the world’s biggest soccer clubs.

It was in response to a question by DPAC about why backers of the bid – multi-millionaire former directors of A-League club Melbourne Victory Harry Stamoulis and Robert Belteky – are qualified to run an A-League team.

“The owners would hire qualified people to run the day-to-day business of the football club,” the representative for the consortium says in the emails.

“These people would be knowledgeable and experienced in the running of a football club.

“It is the wish of the owners of the club to base their ownership model around the Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona clubs. This involves having a share issue to members of the public to own a share of the Tasmanian football club.”

German giants Bayern operate under the 50+1 system, in which a minimum of 51 per cent of a club must be owned by club members. Barcelona is owned by its 180,000 members.

The emails say the new club would create about 50 jobs in Tasmania and that contact between the consortium and Premier Will Hodgman’s office was first established in August.

The correspondence said that in September bid members were concerned that information about the proposal could be leaked.

It eventually became public in October.

The emails show pre-season and cup games would be held in the North of Tasmania with the team based in the South.

Football Federation Australia is drawing up a set of criteria for A-League expansion bids, which will be released early next year.

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"Based around" what does that mean?

Will the members be able to vote and nominate members for the board, such as CEO ?
Will the members be able to call an extraordinary meeting if a certain percent want it?

You can't own 49% of a club and expect to have total control.

Don't they know that Frank is completely against fans having a say in his dictatorship?

Frank will not let this happen. 

This lol

-PB

You gotta love the Barca reference. Are the going to set up a club / association and gift the club to it?

The more well-run the bid seems it would be as a club, the more likely it will be rejected by the muppets at FFA. I'd happily spend $100 to be part of the club. 

Reckon it's something along the lines if there's financial input from the government they want to be (or seen to be) putting tax payers money into a public entity as opposed to giving it to a few rich businessmens hands.

It's a pretty vague article though.

Go go Tassie apples!!!! Add Southern Sydney, Brissie Strickers and South Melbourne (or Dandernong), 14 teams ready to go asap!

What a surprise

All these amazingly genuine bids falling over just after TV deal signed and just before $ has to be spent on them.

this is the perfect example of what has been pretty much every second comment on every thread on this forum for the last 5 months or so.

we get it, you think these are where new teams should be. apparently so does everyone else because we're all just repeating the same comment over and over

Will the members fork over more cash each year to keep it afloat ?

Hope they kick up a big stink when they get rejected. Someone needs to expose Lowy

Boycott !............................ah.......