Bristol Rovers Football Club Limited

The club plays at the Memorial Stadium (capacity: 12,011). The club was originally founded in 1883 as Black Arabs F.C., later changing to Eastville Rovers before finally becoming Bristol Rovers in 1898. The club was admitted to the Football League proper in 1920. The company Bristol Rovers (1883) Limited is the ultimate owner of Bristol Rovers Football Club Limited, The Memorial Stadium Company and South Gloucestershire Arenas Limited.

The club plays at the Memorial Stadium (capacity: 12,011). The club was originally founded in 1883 as Black Arabs F.C., later changing to Eastville Rovers before finally becoming Bristol Rovers in 1898. The club was admitted to the Football League proper in 1920. The company Bristol Rovers (1883) Limited is the ultimate owner of Bristol Rovers Football Club Limited, The Memorial Stadium Company and South Gloucestershire Arenas Limited.

Shirt Sponsorship: Following the end of an 11 year association with local company Cowlin Construction in 2009 the club took a novel approach to securing a shirt sponsor for season 09/10 – they set up a raffle. Ninety-six tickets were sold at £1,000 eachw for the right to 1 year’s shirt sponsorship. The winner was N-Gaged, whose logo wnet on the home kit and second prize went to Bristol-based solicitors Stevens, Hewlett & Perkins who got sponsorship of the away kit.

Financial figures given below are for Bristol Rovers Football Club Limited only. Turnover and pre-tax profits are stated in millions.

Financial Overiew

Year
Turnover
Pre-tax profit
Wages / Turnover ratio (%)
Employees

2007/08

5.658

0.600

56.6

111

2006/07

4.816

0.701

52.9

106

2005/06

3.433

-0.021

72.4

91

2004/05

2.678

-0.525

85.0

67

2003/04

2.369

-0.522

89.9

73

2002/03

2.470

-0.708

83.2

84

2001/02

4.564

-0.499

64.4

96

2000/01

3.948

-0.052

80.4

110

1999/00

3.629

-0.776

70.8

102

1998/99

2.763

1.173

71.1

86

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1994/95

1.537

-0.774

87.7

51