Regulation is new to football. It isn't new to us.
Fideo Global builds compliance, risk and governance capability for regulated industries, and now for English football. Practitioner-led advisory and training to get your club, and the people who run it, ready for the IFR.
Four ways we get clubs ready.
Each engagement is scoped to where your club actually is: from a board that needs orienting to the whole regime, to a senior team preparing for the fitness test. Start with a conversation; we'll tell you honestly which of these you need.
Board & NED workshops
A working session that takes your board through the regime as it applies to them: the Club Code, individual accountability, and what "apply and explain" actually asks of a director. The board leaves having discussed the Act, which the IFR expects and which makes the licensing process markedly smoother.
Licence readiness review
A fixed-scope, fixed-fee assessment of where the club stands against all five licence condition areas, ending in a prioritised remediation plan. The honest internal gap analysis the book argues every club needs before November 2026, done independently, so the gaps get named rather than assumed away.
ODSE & senior-manager training
Focused preparation for the individuals who will face the fitness test: owners, directors and senior executives. What the three criteria mean in practice, how the assessment works, and how to build the evidence base before the IFR asks for it. Grounded in the same framework as our ODSE fitness self-assessment.
Compliance advisory
Ongoing support for the club that wants a practitioner on call: through the application, into the licensed period, and up to the AML obligations arriving by 2029. Risk frameworks, governance operations, the regulatory relationship, and the compliance machinery that turns intent into evidence.
From the boardroom down.
The regime reaches different people in a club in different ways. We work with all of them, because a licence is a whole-club outcome, not a compliance department's problem.
Owners
Facing the fitness test and source-of-funds scrutiny for the first time.
Boards & NEDs
Carrying the governance obligations the Club Code sets, and the independent challenge it demands.
Senior executives
CEOs, CFOs and the regulatory lead who will own the IFR relationship.
Whole clubs
From the Premier League to the National League, the regime applies to all 116, at proportionate scale.
Tell us where your club is.
No pitch on the first call. We'll listen to where you are, tell you which engagement fits — if any — and be straight if you don't need us yet.
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