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League One

By Tielemans63, in Leicester City Forum

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Les-TA-Jon

Les-TA-Jon

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I've been reading up on the spending rules for League One :geek:

 

League One (& Two) doesn't have PSR - it has "Salary Cost Management Protocol" 

  • "the percentage of a Club’s turnover that can be spent on player-related expenditure. In League One this is set at 60%"
  • For former Championship Clubs – this is set at 75% for its first Season in League One only
  • Player-related expenditure is transfer fees, agents fees, wages, bonuses and any other player-related payments and costs.
  • Clubs have to provide a pre-season submission and a mid-season submission by 1st Dec

There's also restrictions on 'equity injections':

  • cash receipts from Equity Injections, Cash Injections and/or Donations - you can only use a certain percentage as 'allowable income' 
  • You can use 100% of the first £500,000; 75% of the next £250,000; 60% of the next £250,000 and 60% of anything else

So for example, Top wants to inject £10,000,000 into the club, we can only count £6,237,500 of it as allowable income.

 

The headline/easiest summary of the requirement is:

 

Player costs and agent fees minus ‘non-established’ U21 player costs cannot exceed the total of:

  • Player trading income
  • ‘Allowable’ Equity injection income
  • 75% of turnover

Hard to tell if this will restrict us more or less than PSR. But also note that we'd also have to be ready to comply with PSR upon promotion back to the Championship. 

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Fox92

Fox92

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17 minutes ago, suffolk fox said:

Looking forward to a weekend away in Blackpool and maybe Plymouth great Citys.  Not all bad then.  Hopefully get Blackpool away first game of the new season

warm in August.

I'm not convinced one of those two won't be in League Two next season yet.

foxfanazer

foxfanazer

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36 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

I've been reading up on the spending rules for League One :geek:

 

League One (& Two) doesn't have PSR - it has "Salary Cost Management Protocol" 

  • "the percentage of a Club’s turnover that can be spent on player-related expenditure. In League One this is set at 60%"
  • For former Championship Clubs – this is set at 75% for its first Season in League One only
  • Player-related expenditure is transfer fees, agents fees, wages, bonuses and any other player-related payments and costs.
  • Clubs have to provide a pre-season submission and a mid-season submission by 1st Dec

There's also restrictions on 'equity injections':

  • cash receipts from Equity Injections, Cash Injections and/or Donations - you can only use a certain percentage as 'allowable income' 
  • You can use 100% of the first £500,000; 75% of the next £250,000; 60% of the next £250,000 and 60% of anything else

So for example, Top wants to inject £10,000,000 into the club, we can only count £6,237,500 of it as allowable income.

 

The headline/easiest summary of the requirement is:

 

Player costs and agent fees minus ‘non-established’ U21 player costs cannot exceed the total of:

  • Player trading income
  • ‘Allowable’ Equity injection income
  • 75% of turnover

Hard to tell if this will restrict us more or less than PSR. But also note that we'd also have to be ready to comply with PSR upon promotion back to the Championship. 

Can you forward this to the club so they're aware of the rules. You know how they struggle with these kind of things 

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Zear0

Zear0

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34 minutes ago, MC Prussian said:

At least Patson Daka will be able to score more than three or four league goals a season.

 

Five, to be precise.

Wouldn't bet on it

CosbehFox

CosbehFox

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Posted
36 minutes ago, suffolk fox said:

Looking forward to a weekend away in Blackpool and maybe Plymouth great Citys.  Not all bad then.  Hopefully get Blackpool away first game of the new season

warm in August.

Couldn’t give a flyer about all that tbh. 
 

I’m more concerned about the knocks on to the academy and community arms of the club. Far more important than a few beers in Blackpool 

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Sky Blues

Sky Blues

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

I've been reading up on the spending rules for League One :geek:

 

League One (& Two) doesn't have PSR - it has "Salary Cost Management Protocol" 

  • "the percentage of a Club’s turnover that can be spent on player-related expenditure. In League One this is set at 60%"
  • For former Championship Clubs – this is set at 75% for its first Season in League One only
  • Player-related expenditure is transfer fees, agents fees, wages, bonuses and any other player-related payments and costs.
  • Clubs have to provide a pre-season submission and a mid-season submission by 1st Dec

There's also restrictions on 'equity injections':

  • cash receipts from Equity Injections, Cash Injections and/or Donations - you can only use a certain percentage as 'allowable income' 
  • You can use 100% of the first £500,000; 75% of the next £250,000; 60% of the next £250,000 and 60% of anything else

So for example, Top wants to inject £10,000,000 into the club, we can only count £6,237,500 of it as allowable income.

 

The headline/easiest summary of the requirement is:

 

Player costs and agent fees minus ‘non-established’ U21 player costs cannot exceed the total of:

  • Player trading income
  • ‘Allowable’ Equity injection income
  • 75% of turnover

Hard to tell if this will restrict us more or less than PSR. But also note that we'd also have to be ready to comply with PSR upon promotion back to the Championship. 

These are the old rules. They got changed after Birmingham and Wrexham bought their way to promotion. Birmingham spent 15m on Stansfield when in League One. 

 

Now players expenses can only be 60% of turnover. This includes transfer fees and wages. But the one big advantage is an owner can gift whatever to the club without limit if he can afford it. But it is counted as income so only 60% can be used for players. The other 40% can be used for everything else like for the training ground, stadium updates or the wages of everyone else. The money can't be removed from the club.

 

But there's nothing to stop them from donating a large amount of money then spending the 40% or whatever is left on players when in the Championship as long as the Championship FFP rules are kept to. And the money spent in League One is separate from the money spent in the Championship. 

Edited by Sky Blues
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JonnyBoy

JonnyBoy

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1 hour ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

I've been reading up on the spending rules for League One :geek:

 

League One (& Two) doesn't have PSR - it has "Salary Cost Management Protocol" 

  • "the percentage of a Club’s turnover that can be spent on player-related expenditure. In League One this is set at 60%"
  • For former Championship Clubs – this is set at 75% for its first Season in League One only
  • Player-related expenditure is transfer fees, agents fees, wages, bonuses and any other player-related payments and costs.
  • Clubs have to provide a pre-season submission and a mid-season submission by 1st Dec

There's also restrictions on 'equity injections':

  • cash receipts from Equity Injections, Cash Injections and/or Donations - you can only use a certain percentage as 'allowable income' 
  • You can use 100% of the first £500,000; 75% of the next £250,000; 60% of the next £250,000 and 60% of anything else

So for example, Top wants to inject £10,000,000 into the club, we can only count £6,237,500 of it as allowable income.

 

The headline/easiest summary of the requirement is:

 

Player costs and agent fees minus ‘non-established’ U21 player costs cannot exceed the total of:

  • Player trading income
  • ‘Allowable’ Equity injection income
  • 75% of turnover

Hard to tell if this will restrict us more or less than PSR. But also note that we'd also have to be ready to comply with PSR upon promotion back to the Championship. 

 

@Dan put a post in another thread with a podcast outlining how much trouble we are in financially and the implications/rules of if (when) we go down. I'm sure he will link it in here it is worth a listen 

Les-TA-Jon

Les-TA-Jon

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36 minutes ago, Sky Blues said:

These are the old rules. They got changed after Birmingham and Wrexham bought their way to promotion. Birmingham spent 15m on Stansfield when in League One. 

 

Now players expenses can only be 60% of turnover. This includes transfer fees and wages. But the one big advantage is an owner can gift whatever to the club without limit if he can afford it. But it is counted as income so only 60% can be used for players. The other 40% can be used for everything else like for the training ground, stadium updates or the wages of everyone else. The money can't be removed from the club.

 

But there's nothing to stop them from donating a large amount of money then spending the 40% or whatever is left on players when in the Championship as long as the Championship FFP rules are kept to. And the money spent in League One is separate from the money spent in the Championship. 

I think this is what my summary says? 

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

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3 hours ago, suffolk fox said:

Looking forward to a weekend away in Blackpool and maybe Plymouth great Citys.  Not all bad then.  Hopefully get Blackpool away first game of the new season

warm in August.

Blackpool? Not so much. Depending on where you sit, the view is blocked by these bloody pillars.

 

I'd be most looking forward to Wimbledon (tidy club, massive respect for what they've achieved since the inception), Peterborough (sort of a derby, easy to get to), Mansfield (not too far off, either; never been), Northampton (been there, odd location in that cauldron; quite the friendly folks from what I recall) and Wycombe (for the nostalgia).

 

Depending on the outcome in League Two, Notts away would be fantastic. Swindon for THAT playoff final. Cambridge (love the place) and Bromley (I know a particular LCFC fan who lives down there and is a loyal Bromley supporter).

Would love to see Oldham making a return to a higher division soon, too..

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Dan

Dan

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6 hours ago, JonnyBoy said:

 

@Dan put a post in another thread with a podcast outlining how much trouble we are in financially and the implications/rules of if (when) we go down. I'm sure he will link it in here it is worth a listen 

It's that where's the money gone thread.

Sol thewall Bamba

Sol thewall Bamba

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10 hours ago, MC Prussian said:

At least Patson Daka will be able to score more than three or four league goals a season.

 

Five, to be precise.

We thought that about the Championship tbf. And he's out of contract anyway. 12 month's time he'll be training on a motorway verge like Amartey with no club.

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Clogger_

Clogger_

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5 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

We thought that about the Championship tbf. And he's out of contract anyway. 12 month's time he'll be training on a motorway verge like Amartey with no club.

Good job, Daka would be *destroyed* by some of the strong defenders in L1...

Free Falling Foxes

Free Falling Foxes

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49 minutes ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

Two players perfect for League 1, Luke Thomas and Hamza, Rudkin showed some forward thinking after all signing these 2 on long contracts. 

When they were young and 'hungry' perhaps. Now? Not too sure.

murphy

murphy

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13 hours ago, suffolk fox said:

Looking forward to a weekend away in Blackpool and maybe Plymouth great Citys.  Not all bad then.  Hopefully get Blackpool away first game of the new season

warm in August.

Why don't you just go for a day trip to blackpool. :dunno:

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Tom12345

Tom12345

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5 hours ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

Two players perfect for League 1, Luke Thomas and Hamza, Rudkin showed some forward thinking after all signing these 2 on long contracts. 

Luke Thomas is not a bad player for the Champiomship.

 

Hamza though would fit right into League One.

Claudio Fannieri

Claudio Fannieri

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There are some bloody good people who work for the club and who do our club proud and if we get relegated, may be at risk of losing their jobs. The fall out of relegation will be massive. 
 

I really hope the decision makers and the playing squad come to their senses pretty quick, pull there fingers out their arseholes and get this club moving up the table pronto. 

Pliskin

Pliskin

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On 12/02/2026 at 10:35, suffolk fox said:

Looking forward to a weekend away in Blackpool and maybe Plymouth great Citys.  Not all bad then.  Hopefully get Blackpool away first game of the new season

warm in August.

We won’t be playing anyone because we will be bust by then. 

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