Doncaster Rovers post losses in latest club accounts

Doncaster Rovers posted a loss of £1.85m for the last financial year, the club’s latest accounts have revealed.
The Keepmoat Stadium, home of Doncaster RoversThe Keepmoat Stadium, home of Doncaster Rovers
The Keepmoat Stadium, home of Doncaster Rovers

The accounts for Doncaster Rovers Limited for the year end June 30, 2019 were published on Monday, showing an increase in the club’s losses from £31.61m to £33.46m.

The club posted losses of £2.79m in the previous financial year.

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Rovers elect to publish abridged accounts which do not disclose detailed information, such as employee wages.

But the latest filings did reveal a debt of £7.41m, of which £6.41m is owed to the club’s owners - specifically parent company Club Doncaster Limited - up from £5.15m the previous year.

Money owed to Club Doncaster Limited has no interest applied, will not be called in and forms part of the overall funding of Rovers.

Club Doncaster Limited owns 98 per cent of Doncaster Rovers Limited. Its owners are Terry Bramall, the Watson family, Rovers chairman David Blunt and chief executive Gavin Baldwin.

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The accounts reveal that Rovers did not pay transfer fees for any players signed during the 2018/19 season.

It is also stated that the club received a little more than £1m from the sale of two players in the time after the accounts were published. Part of this is understood to be an instalment from the transfer of John Marquis to Portsmouth, which was confirmed in late July.

Employees of Doncaster Rovers Ltd dropped to 240 from 277 the previous year.