ABERDEEN FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-03-31 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-24 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£9M
+260.8% vs 2024
Net assets
£25M
+31.9% vs 2024
Employees
183
+6.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£2M
-134.7% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ABERDEEN FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED 2019-07-05 → present
- ABERDEEN FOOTBALL CLUB PLC 1903-05-27 → 2019-07-05
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £23,631,000 | £21,712,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£463,000 | -£1,511,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£880,000 | -£2,065,000 | |
| Net profit | -£880,000 | -£2,065,000 | |
| Cash | £2,444,000 | £8,818,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £27,802,000 | £36,160,000 | |
| Net assets | £18,716,000 | £24,690,000 | |
| Equity | £18,716,000 | £24,690,000 | |
| Average employees | 172 | 183 | |
| Wages | £11,244,000 | £13,291,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -2.0% | -7.0% | |
| Net margin | -3.7% | -9.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | -1.7% | -4.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 48.3% | 48.3% | |
| Current ratio | 0.90x | 1.52x | |
| Interest cover | -9.08x | -12.19x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- AAB Audit & Accountancy Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Having considered the circumstances, the Directors are satisfied that the Group has sufficient resources to continue to meet its obligations as they fall due and have a reasonable expectation that the Group will continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the Financial Statements continue to be prepared on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- ABERDEEN FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED · parent
- Stadium Aberdeen Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The team winning the Scottish Cup for the first time in 35 years after defeating Hearts, in the Semi Final, and Celtic, in the Final, at Hampden to lift the cup. This also guaranteed European league phase football for season 2025/26, the second time in three seasons.”
- “Player sales including Bojan Miovski (to Girona) in August 2024, Pape Gueye (to Kasimpasa in July 2025), Shayden Morris (to Luton Town) and Fletcher Boyd (to Aston Villa's Academy in August 2025) for significant transfer fees. Connor Barron left for Rangers (in June 2024) via a transfer tribunal determination in December 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 30 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSTON, Roy Macdonald | Secretary | 2013-06-28 | — | — |
| BURROWS, Alan Gordon | Director | 2023-03-13 | Dec 1982 | British |
| CORMACK, David Alexander | Director | 2017-06-13 | Jan 1959 | American |
| CROTTY, Thomas Joseph | Director | 2019-03-29 | Dec 1957 | American |
| EFSTATHIOU, Dimitrios | Director | 2022-08-08 | Jun 1978 | American |
| GARNER, William | Director | 2022-05-09 | Jul 1955 | British |
| LAWRIE, David Ernest | Director | 2025-02-10 | Apr 1965 | British |
| MACIVER, Kevin Duncan | Director | 2020-07-10 | Jun 1969 | British |
| MILNE, Stewart | Director | 1994-06-14 | Jul 1950 | British |
| OGILVIE, Zoe Sutherland | Director | 2021-06-03 | Jun 1968 | British |
Show 30 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRASER, Duncan Grant | Secretary | 2003-01-01 | 2004-07-30 |
| JOHNSTON, Edwin David | Secretary | 2004-07-30 | 2013-06-28 |
| JOHNSTON, Roy Macdonald | Secretary | 2000-02-11 | 2002-12-31 |
| RAMSAY, Richard | Secretary | 1997-07-28 | 2000-02-11 |
| TAGGART, Ian James | Secretary | — | 1997-07-28 |
| BENNETT, Gordon John | Director | 1999-11-08 | 2000-08-12 |
| BROWN, James Craig | Director | 2013-03-13 | 2019-12-16 |
| BUCHAN, Gordon Andrew | Director | 1992-04-15 | 2021-06-03 |
| BURKINSHAW, Keith Harry | Director | 1997-06-01 | 2001-07-25 |
| CORMACK, David Alexander | Director | 2000-10-17 | 2001-07-31 |
| CUMMINGS, James Cook | Director | 2000-10-24 | 2001-03-27 |
| DENNIS, Gavin Mark | Director | 1998-06-23 | 1998-12-04 |
| DONALD, Ian Richard | Director | — | 2004-05-04 |
| DONALD, Richard Mcnaughton | Director | — | 1993-12-31 |
| EALES, Darren Graham | Director | 2019-11-21 | 2022-08-08 |
| FRASER, Duncan Grant | Director | 2004-05-31 | 2020-07-22 |
| GAVIN, Christopher John | Director | 2002-03-28 | 2012-06-25 |
| GILBERT, Martin James | Director | 1997-05-06 | 2012-06-25 |
| GILMORE, William | Director | 1998-12-21 | 2000-09-29 |
| JACK, Ian | Director | 2011-07-04 | 2019-12-16 |
| LITTLE, Hugh Wilson Mcintosh | Director | 2000-11-13 | 2012-06-25 |
| MATHESON, Kenneth Andrew | Director | 2004-05-31 | 2012-06-25 |
| MILLER, Denis John | Director | 1989-11-03 | 1999-06-21 |
| MILLER, William Ferguson | Director | 2004-05-24 | 2012-06-29 |
| RAMSAY, Richard | Director | 1997-05-06 | 2000-02-11 |
| SKINNER, Duncan Ross | Director | 2015-01-20 | 2019-12-16 |
| WELSH, Colin Ian | Director | 2011-07-04 | 2017-09-19 |
| WICKS, Robert Somerset | Director | 2018-07-30 | 2023-05-31 |
| WYNESS, Keith | Director | 2001-10-22 | 2004-07-30 |
| YULE, George Kynoch | Director | 2012-06-25 | 2018-06-22 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr David Alexander Cormack | Individual | ownership-of-shares-50-to-75-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-50-to-75-percent-as-trust | 2019-08-02 | Active |
| Mr Stewart Milne | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-12-17 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 296 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-01-21 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2022-01-21 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-12-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-12-02 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-07-09 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-02-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-02-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-01-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-06-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-03-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-02-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-02-01 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2023-01-31 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2023-01-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-08-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-08-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-05-19 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-21 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-01-21 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 1
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-06-30 vs 2024-06-30
-
Turnover
-8.1%
£23,631,000 £21,712,000
-
Cash
+260.8%
£2,444,000 £8,818,000
-
Net assets
+31.9%
£18,716,000 £24,690,000
-
Employees
+6.4%
172 183
-
Operating profit
-226.3%
-£463,000 -£1,511,000
-
Profit before tax
-134.7%
-£880,000 -£2,065,000
-
Wages
+18.2%
£11,244,000 £13,291,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers