SPFL ‘confident’ of answering six-club criticism as it circulates review and calls meetings

SPFL ‘confident’ of answering six-club criticism as it circulates review and calls meetings

The Scottish Professional Football League has distributed its independent governance assessment to all 42 members and scheduled a series of group sessions that it is “confident” will address criticism from six top-tier clubs.

The six clubs expressed “serious concerns” following the SPFL’s preliminary January statement regarding its findings.

They invited league executives to attend a meeting on February 27.

However, the SPFL has now scheduled a meeting of all clubs on March 19.

The independent assessment of the league’s operations by consultant Henderson Loggie was commissioned in July,

after SPFL head Murdoch MacLennan apologised to Rangers as a sponsorship issue was resolved.

“We are pleased that, following further discussion with Henderson Loggie, we have now been able to circulate their independent governance review in its entirety to all 42 SPFL clubs,” a spokesperson for the SPFL stated.

“Now that clubs are in possession of the review, we are confident they will see for themselves how thorough and detailed the exercise was – and that Henderson Loggie have delivered in full on the brief announced in July 2023.”

Last week, the SPFL advised that a joint statement from Aberdeen, Livingston, Motherwell, Rangers, St Johnstone, and St Mirren had “factual inaccuracies”.

It now expects that disseminating Henderson Loggie’s report will clarify its “number of recommendations”.

“The board had hoped to consider all of Henderson Loggie’s recommendations at its scheduled meeting on Monday, 19 February,” according to the statement. “However, one director requested that this conversation be pushed back so that all board members could attend.

“That meeting, to discuss the individual recommendations, is therefore scheduled to take place on 19 March,

which is the first date after 19 February that all SPFL board members can be there in person.”

However, “given the ongoing public debate,” it stated that the review will be reviewed at an already scheduled Premiership club meeting on February 19th, when the SPFL board would also discuss the topic later that day.

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