Football & Rugby Business Networking Event - Hampden Park 2024 by footballtradedirectory

Introduction

This is the sixth Scottish Football & Rugby Business event we have organised at Hampden Park, and as previously we have received great support from the Stadium Team and Steven Romeo at the Scottish FA.

We have again seen a great response from clubs across all divisions down into non-league. We also have several other clubs visiting today.

The event offers clubs and sport related businesses alike the opportunity to get together in an informal setting and we hope you have a successful day.

Sponsors, Future Ticketing are on hand to demo their latest ticketing and CRM software. The Irish based company have made big inroads with Scottish Clubs in the past couple of years. Ronan Burns will give a short presentation at 1:15pm outlining their system and the benefits of it.

There are free refreshments throughout the day. If you have any questions throughout the day John, Ollie and Joe will be on hand to answer them.

John Booth, Managing Director, FTD

Contact Numbers on the Day:

John: 07771 916786

Joe: 07443 952324

Ollie: 07713 484553

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