Football Governance Act 2025

95 Offences by officers of clubs and bodies corporate

(1) If an offence under this Act committed by a club, or a body corporate other than a club, is proved—

(a) to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer of the club or of the body corporate, or

(b) to be attributable to neglect on the part of an officer of the club or of the body corporate,

the officer (as well as the club or the body corporate) is guilty of the offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(2) If the affairs of a body corporate other than a club are managed by its members, subsection (1) applies in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with the member’s functions of management as if the member were an officer of the body corporate.

(3) In this section, “officer”, in relation to a body corporate other than a club, means—

(a) where the body is a company, a director of the body;

(b) in any other case, an officer of the body whose functions correspond to those of a director of a company.