We Need Your Help
We Need You Now!
Please support us
What we do together in the next few weeks will shape the future of Lewes FC for next season and beyond.
As a small, community-owned club, we have to be honest about the challenges we face – especially during the summer off-season, when there are no matchdays to generate income but plenty of work to be done.
It costs us roughly £120,000 to keep the club running through the summer.
These costs help us upkeep the Dripping Pan, pay our utility bills, maintain the pitch and develop hospitality so the chips are ready, the beers are quick, and we’re match fit to enjoy the football.
This is the moment we need your help to propel the club forward on and off the pitch.
We Need You Now!
We rebuilt last season. We reset. We delivered unforgettable moments on and off the pitch. Now, to keep that momentum going – to keep our teams thriving, to keep the Pan buzzing, to keep our values alive – we’re asking you to stand with us and raise the money we need to prepare for 2025/26 and beyond.
Whether you’ve come to the Pan once and fell in love, or made our home your second home – please support us financially today to help us bridge this crucial summer gap and power the next chapter in the Lewes FC story.
How you can help
Lifetime Ownership
Elevate today
If you are an owner paying an annual subscription, now is the time to become a lifetime owner. Rather than paying full price, you can ‘top up’ your Ownership or Ownership Plus at a discounted rate.
Elevate your ownership at a discounted rate for two weeks only and help the club in our time of need.
• If you are a current £50 Owner, you can buy a lifetime ownership for £850 (normally £1,000).
• If you are a current £100 Owner-Plus, you can buy a lifetime ownership for £750 (normally £1,000).
• Or, own Lewes FC for the first time today and become a new lifetime Owner for £1,000
Buy today and Get:
• Beanie: Lewes Green or WGAC Plush Purple
• Shirt: Choose a 2025/26 home or away shirt for next season
• Match Tickets: Secure discounted and free match tickets for selected games
• Beach Hut: First 20 lifetime owners get a beach hut for a game of their choice in 2025/26 (subject to availability)
If you can’t or don’t want to elevate, that’s absolutely fine. We ask that owners check their subscription is up to date and consider an additional standing donation that fits within your budget.
Buy Lifetime Ownership
Become an Owner
Join our community
If you’re not an owner of Lewes FC then this is your chance to make a difference. Our club only survives on the strength of its community. Our numbers, our voice, and our financial impact.
Become an owner and unlock new benefits – we are working over the summer to improve our ownership benefits.
If you’re already an owner, why not gift an ownership to friends and family? All new Ownership Plus (£100) members get a gift box and beanie hat!
Become an OwnerSponsor Us
Connect with our community
Upwards of 2,000 people from Lewes, Sussex and the South East make the trip to the Dripping Pan each week during the football season.
We stream live matches, publish game highlights, invite social media influencers to games, and get national press coverage that similar clubs could only dream of.
You can get your business in front of our owners, supporters and away fans (your potential customers) throughout the year with one of our sponsorship packages.
We are #FansOfChange and we want to work with #BrandsOfChange.
If your company wants to help us write history, become a sponsor/partner, and actively change football for the better, email commercial@lewesfc.com or see our sponsorship packages.
Sponsorship opportunities
Donate If You Can
Make a contribution
If you can spare the money, please donate to the football club. We have around 2500+ owners, of whom 600 live locally. If everyone donated £50-£250 we would generate enough funds to prepare the Pan for next season, flatten cash flow fluctuations, and secure all the hard work that our staff, fans, and directors achieved this year.
You can donate via TicketTailor and help us write the next chapter of Lewes FC together.
Even a weekly donation of £20 over the next few weeks could make a huge difference to our club as we prepare for the new campaign.
Buy Merchandise
We've lots of great swag
We understand some fans aren’t able to donate money, sponsor, or elevate their ownerships.
If this is the case for you, we appeal to supporters to buy our merchandise and use your spending power to support the club.
If you’re local and can pop into our club shop at the Pan, we have:
• Water bottles
• Reusable coffee cups
• Caps
• T-shirts
• Scarves
• Beanies
• Shirts
• Baby gifts
• Lewes FC soap from English Soap Company (a great gift idea!)
Buy a Season Ticket
Follow Lewes in 25/26
Early bird season tickets for the 2025/26 campaign are currently on sale. You can buy a Men’s, Women’s or Super season ticket and save money now.
Early Bird – Price freeze – 2024/25 prices!
Super – Both men’s and women’s teams
(32 league games + Special events & Bonus games)
• Adults: £280
• Concessions: £200
• Child: £25
Men’s First Team Only:
(21 league games + Special events & Bonus games)
• Adult: £220
• Concessions: £150
Women’s First Team Only:
(11 league games + Special events & Bonus games)
• Adult: £115
• Concessions: £80
Why Now?
The challenges we face
At the start of last season, we faced a number of financial challenges following relegation. Cash was tight and we had new teams to build. Since then, we’ve managed to transform our operating budget and our entire management processes to deliver a better-than-break-even season, even generating a small cash surplus. We’re incredibly proud of this work and it sets us up brilliantly for the 2025/26 season.
We got to the end of this season – just – and we even won a trophy. But now we need your financial help so we, as a community, can move forward and keep evolving for the better.
As with many football clubs in the summer, we have no income between now and the start of the 2025/26 season. We have significant costs in preparation for the season. Summer is when we develop players, build squads, prepare our hospitality, and get ready for a new campaign.
If we can confidently get through the summer, then we can operate to a break-even budget (as we did in 2024/25) and have our new governance proposals in place for owners to vote on.
We are not alone in facing financial challenges. Women’s football is in severe need of change. Clubs are defaulting their league status and falling away. Non-league men’s football is ultra competitive and every penny counts.
We want to evolve and engage more with our community. We hope that this will be the last time we will need to ask for financial support and donations like this — not because we won’t need support in future, but because we’re committed to building more sustainable income streams from across our community.
