All about the Buy Stirling Albion campaign

We here at Albion Road were recently contacted by a group called Buy Stirling Albion about a campaign they're working on and thought we would share a bit about it with you. This is not the kind of thing we normally do but this seems to be a very worthy project. Plus they have a great name!

As you may be aware Stirling Albion are a Scottish football club based in the city of Stirling, currently doing battle in the Scottish Football League Second Division. The Binos, as the club are known, were founded just after the Second World War and have a long and proud history, winning quite a number of lower division league titles along the way. The current club president Peter McKenzie wishes to sell Stirling Albion and in the absence of other serious bidders the Stirling Albion Supporters Trust is moving forward in an effort to take 100% control of the club.

While there are many football clubs in the UK with supporters' trusts and some have large stakes in their respective clubs, this campaign if successful would make Stirling Albion the first league club to be 100% owned by their supporters. Anyone (Stirling residents or not) can join the Supporters Trust for a £40 membership fee and be involved in major club decisions if the purchase goes through successfully.

We here at Albion Road are solidly behind the Supporters Trust movement and wish the Buy Stirling Albion group the absolute best in their efforts. You can follow all the details in a number of ways:

• The Buy Stirling Albion FC website
• Buysafc on twitter
• and a Buy Stirling Albion Facebook group has been created