{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025/section-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025/section-49.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/21",
  "legislation_title": "Football Governance Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Duty not to change crest, home shirt colours or name without approval",
  "text": "(1) A regulated club must not make any material changes to—\n(a) any emblem or crest of a relevant team operated by the club, or\n(b) the predominant home shirt colours of such a team,\nunless the club has taken reasonable steps to establish that the changes are supported by a majority of the club’s fans in England and Wales.\n(2) A regulated club must not change the name of a relevant team operated by the club unless the change has been approved by the Football Association.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 49 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 100(2)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 49 in force at 1.7.2026 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2026/705, reg. 2(1)(a)(iii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/21/section/49",
    "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."
}