Launching the Fan Ownership model is a monumental achievement for the club. What started as colleagues and friends having a kick about quickly became a competitive Saturday League side with a huge online following. With more exciting news on the horizon, the club\u2019s goal forming a fan-owned, community-based club where kids and young players can improve, is well on its way to being achieved.<\/p>\n
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Waiting on final approvements from the Google Play and App Store is the Stretford Paddock FC App. The App will allow Members to vote on club business, access news and fixture lists, behind the scenes access, early merchandise releases and exclusive interviews. The App will also give new members the option to pay the membership fee in smaller instalments \u2013 just \u00a35 a month. It\u2019s going to make being a part of the Stretford Paddock journey even more accessible.<\/p>\n
It won\u2019t be long until the ball gets rolling amongst the club\u2019s members. Plans have already been put in place for key decisions to be made surrounding ticket prices, sponsors, core values, academy structures, services, and expansion into a Women\u2019s team. On the pitch, ongoings have also started with a pre-season friendly against Hashtag United well in the works.<\/p>\n
When the club find a permanent home (a goal hopefully not so far away), Founder Members will have their names engraved somewhere within the stadium\u2019s vicinity – further showing who this club really belongs to \u2013 the fans!<\/p>\n
If you want to join the 700+ members already in shaping a football club by the value\u2019s you hold close to you then check out the links below to find out how you can get stuck in \u2013 this is your club! Something special is happening within the grassroots of football and it\u2019s on it\u2019s way to becoming something we can all be proud of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At 10:00AM on Wednesday, Stretford Paddock FC hit the \u2018LIVE\u2019 button on its Fan Ownership scheme. The members came in their numbers. Within only 24 hours, the tally of members hit 700, and that\u2019s before the launch of the club’s app. It\u2019s been a great start and there\u2019s plenty to come. Become a Member using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stretfordpaddockfc.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}