Description
Ad Hoc Films for Sky UK
This sporting observational documentary series spans the 2021 to 2023 Premiership and Championship season, following the new American business owners who swap Wall Street for Turf Moor Lancashire, and their bid to create a global footballing dynasty with the purchase of Burnley FC, one of British Football’s oldest clubs.
Led by chairman Alan Pace, and inspired by their Mormon faith as members of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, this series has unprecedented access to the boardroom, dressing-room and inner workings of the club. Audiences are taken on a compelling fly-on-the-wall journey in a one-team working-class town, where football is a religion in itself.
Charting a rollercoaster period which saw the club lurch from the devastation of final-day relegation from the 2021/22 Premier League to the redemptive jubilation of promotion back into the Premier League in 2023 in the most emphatic fashion, the documentary explores Burnley’s evolution under the stewardship of one of the most exciting young managers, Vincent Kompany, whilst delving deep into the bittersweet realities of navigating the snakes-and-ladders world of modern football and business.
- Produced by Ad Hoc Films, makers of “The United Way”, "Lionesses: How Football Came Home” and "The Four Year Plan”