Football Supporters Europe teams at international tournaments. But the real story of FSE as it now exists began in July 2008, when the UK's Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF) hosted in London the first European Football Fans’ Congress. The London meeting, held at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium, discussed the issues which concerned fans across Europe, and gave a great impetus to the development of the network. The following year, in Hamburg, the second European Football Fans’ Congress (EFFC) was held, and alongside the workshops on issues such as discrimination, policing, ticket pricing and commercialisation, the decision was taken to adopt statutes and formally establish the
Proposed mergers and relocations of the Fitzroy Football Club head threatening to liquidate the club until in 1999 Allan Piper had the charge removed.. From that point onwards, Fitzroy Football Club started re-accumulating assets, trademarking the FFC logo, launching a "Fitzroy Shop", which sold Fitzroy jumpers and other merchandise, issuing club memberships to supporters, and slowly getting back on its feet as an operating football club. In 1999-2000, the Fitzroy Football Club sponsored the Coburg Football Club in the VFL who temporarily re-named themselves the Coburg-Fitzroy Lions. This arrangement ended for the 2001 season when under the AFL-VFL alignment system, Coburg aligned with the Richmond Football Club to become