Thats the million dollar question in the real capital
If a club goes bust, who owns the name? Could another club start up and call themselves, say, Cork Hibernians if they wanted to? Or do you have to buy it off the people who held it originally?
Thats the million dollar question in the real capital
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
If the holding company is liquidated and the trading name of the club is owned by that company then you could try to buy it from the liquidator (court appointed). If no-ond buys the name and thecompany ceases to exist, you could start using the name and apply to the CRO to register.
I think.
Cork City: Making 'Dream Team' seem realistic since 2007.
And if the team is long defunct, like Belfast Celtic?
Different story - as Belfast Celtic's name is owned by a Bookmaker.
Most Irish clubs don't have their names registered as trademarks, so most have no ongoing value. If a company trading as a certain football club goes bang, eventually that name becomes freely available again to re-register as a trading name.
Henec why City came back from the dead (both Derry and Cork).
What about the Limerick situation where they changed from 37 back to just f.c ?
Because F.C went bust..
The trading names Cork City FC and Cork City Football Club are registered by Cork City Investments FC ltd., and have been since that company came into being in the Lennox era. During examinership last year the company was maintained and never went out of existence to come 'back from the dead'.
Cork City: Making 'Dream Team' seem realistic since 2007.
Though it seems elementary reading is lost on you...
He wasn't giivng an example - he clearly asked a question. Hence I stated that there would be no point going through the same answer for every one of the LOI cluhs that have fecked around with names.
As your Spanish cousin would say, "finito de".
In fairness Steve I think its changed a lot recently, and I'd imagine that most clubs (and the companies behind them) own the rights to the name etc (as tiktok's post above)
You're obviously right about clubs in the past not bothering
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