{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025/schedule-4/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/21",
  "legislation_title": "Football Governance Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Financial resources",
  "text": "(1) The financial resources threshold requirement is met, in relation to a club, if the financial resources of the club are appropriate in relation to the activities the club carries on or seeks to carry on.\n(2) In considering whether a club has appropriate financial resources, the IFR may have regard to (among other things)—\n(a) the corporate structure of the club and, where the club is part of a group, the group;\n(b) the club’s latest financial plan (see paragraph 2 of Schedule 5), including in particular—\n(i) any financial risks identified in the plan, and\n(ii) any plans described in the plan for managing those risks;\n(c) the club’s strategic business plan (see section 16(5));\n(d) the specified competition in relation to which a relevant team is operated by the club;\n(e) any other competitions in relation to which a team is operated by the club;\n(f) the club’s non-financial resources.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 100(2)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2 in force at 1.11.2026 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2026/1135, reg. 3(1)(a)(xii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/21/schedule/4/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:39:55.233089+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}