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List of fan-owned sports teams

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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 89.101.141.253 (talk) at 11:02, 19 January 2009 (return removed info (again). the clubs being removed range from co-operative societies to limited companies where the shareholdings were sold publically to the fanbase - all are 'fan owned' as a resul). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This is a partial list of professional or semi-professional sports teams that are owned by fans (via either a collective organisation or where the assumption of majority ownership by a small group is prohibited by the club's constitution or governing documents) from all over the world sorted by home country. Teams playing at every level in each country are shown.

Africa

Mali

Nigeria

Asia

Australia

AFL

NRL

Israel

Japan

South Korea

Europe

Austria

Czech Republic

Germany

All German football clubs are member-owned, as are also the teams in most other professional sports leagues. Some football clubs, however, enjoy strong backing of local industries, such as VfL Wolfsburg (Volkswagen AG) and Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Bayer AG); or of deep-pocketed individuals, such as 1899 Hoffenheim (backed by SAP cofounder Dietmar Hopp, who played for the club as a youth).

In some cases fans have also re-founded bankrupt or otherwise disappeared clubs, one such example is Lokomotive Leipzig.

Greece

Ireland

Spain

United Kingdom

(England)

(Scotland)

(Wales)

Portugal

North America

Canada

Mexico

United States

Central America

Costa Rica

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