League One SCMP
How much can Blackpool spend?
Under the EFL's Salary Cost Management Protocol (SCMP) rules, Blackpool have a
guaranteed spending limit of £4.4m
— 50% of estimated football revenue of £8.8m.
Against their estimated squad cost that is £3.7m short.
Blackpool: the SCR breakdown
- Estimated revenue (football) reported £8.8m
- 50% SCR limit £4.4m
- Estimated squad cost estimated £8.1m
- Headroom vs 50% limit −£3.7m
Restricted
- squad cost is 91.8% of revenue
What this means
On these estimates, Blackpool are spending well above what SCMP allows. Closing that gap usually means selling players or growing revenue before they can strengthen further.
League One clubs are governed by SCMP, a wage-to-turnover cap, not SCR. The figures above run the club through the same calculator at the 50% SCMP threshold for comparability; the League One page shows the club's SCMP ratio and threshold directly.
Note on this club's figures. Revenue is the audited turnover of The Blackpool Football Club Limited (company 00048409) for the year ended 30 June 2025, the club's second League One season, filed at Companies House on 31 March 2026 (full accounts, iXBRL read directly): turnover £8,817,011 (2024: £9,701,178, -9.1%), split matchday £4,026,809 / football £2,942,362 / commercial £1,847,840. Same accounts: total staff costs £9,949,043 (wages and salaries £8,897,200 + social security £985,703 + pensions £66,140) for ALL staff including 108 part-timers, i.e. total staff costs already exceed turnover (113%); operating loss £7,103,080, profit on player registration disposals £2,796,912, loss before tax £4,306,168, net liabilities £14,786,318, £25,370,020 owed to group undertakings (Sadler-controlled holding company), auditors flag a material uncertainty over going concern dependent on continued owner support. 2025/26 accounts are not yet filed. The 2026/27 wage bill is Capology's estimate of first-team fixed gross wages for 2026-2027, £8,090,000 per year / £155,577 per week, excluding bonuses and based on 19 of 24 squad players with salary data, read on 2026-09-03; SalarySport's 2026/27 page gives a similar £7,844,460 per year / £150,855 per week. Both are third-party estimates, so flagged estimated. Ratio = 8,090,000 / 8,817,011 = 0.92 against a 0.50 SCMP cap, so player wages appear to run at roughly double the permitted share of turnover on a raw basis. Caveats: SCMP counts player wages only (the accounts wage line covers all staff), Capology excludes bonuses and unlisted players so the true player figure may be higher, and the EFL lets owner equity injections count at 50p per £1 of turnover; the club's funding to date has come as intra-group loans rather than new share capital (share capital and premium unchanged at £37,500 / £1,860,174), so mitigation would depend on Simon Sadler converting or injecting equity for the 2026/27 SCMP submission. Status set to breach_risk rather than mitigated_by_equity because no equity injection is evidenced in the filed accounts. Revenue figure is NOT a placeholder.
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Figures are illustrative estimates from published accounts, named analyst estimates and
public reporting, not official SCR submissions.
SCR uses adjusted football revenue, which differs from headline turnover. Last reviewed 2026-09-03.
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