Edusport eyeing Scottish Premiership by 2025 with fan ownership plan

Chris Ewing is targeting the top flight by 2025. Picture: SNS Group

The club are offering members the chance to choose a new name, colours and crest, recommend signings and take other key decisions in return for £25 annual subscriptions.

Club owner Chris Ewing, a former Stranraer player, has set a target of reaching the top flight by 2025. Edusport currently sit 11th in the Lowland League, whose champion is involved in play-offs to reach Ladbrokes League Two.

Edusport - which started as a residential course for young French footballers in Scotland - play their home games at Annan’s Galabank but are on the hunt for a new location in central Scotland.

Ewing said: “What started off in 2011 as a private football academy has evolved into a football club with full membership of the Scottish FA playing in the fifth tier of Scottish football.

“We’re just one step away from professional football.

“The business model that was originally set up is now maybe not best placed to support the ambitions of the football club and that is what led me to think of alternatives.

“We want this to be the most innovative fan experience in the game. We aim to offer the best and most immersive supporter experience in world football, which is exactly what we feel the game needs.”

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