Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Trust call for boycott of official merchandise and retail sold by club

Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Belief name for a boycott of all official merchandise and retail offered by the membership forward of the 2025/26 season.

It comes because the membership disaster goes on, a direct boycott of all official membership merchandise, together with gadgets offered on the membership store, on-line retailer, and matchday kiosks, to stress proprietor Dejphon Chansiri to promote the membership.

The boycott, which excludes matchday tickets to proceed supporting the crew, is in response to Chansiri’s mismanagement, together with failure to pay HMRC, unpaid wages to workers, and monetary instability threatening the membership’s future.

The motion is voluntary, respecting followers’ traditions, with the aim of safeguarding Sheffield Wednesday for future generations. The Belief will announce additional methods to assist the trigger and non-playing workers quickly.

The @SWFCTrust have launched a press release calling for a merchandise and retail boycott at Sheffield Wednesday. Full assertion beneath. #SWFC

“Our name to motion in the present day is taken with one objective — to stress Dejphon Chansiri to promote the membership.” pic.twitter.com/5vkMvF2q7R

— Rob Staton (@robstaton) July 1, 2025

STATEMENT:

It’s with a heavy coronary heart that the Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Belief (SWST) announce and respectfully request that its members and wider fanbase interact in a direct boycott of all official merchandise and retail offered by the membership. This boycott covers every part offered on the membership store and on-line retailer comparable to kits, scarves, hats, and mugs. It additionally contains foods and drinks offered at kiosks on matchday. The boycott will stay in place for nevertheless lengthy Dejphon Chansiri is proprietor of Sheffield Wednesday Soccer Membership (SWFC).

The boycott doesn’t but embody matchday tickets – we nonetheless consider it will be significant for followers to assist the crew in what’s more likely to be an extremely troublesome season on the pitch.

Why?

Our name to motion in the present day is taken with one objective – to stress Dejphon Chansiri to promote the membership.

His actions are endangering the membership’s future. The repeated failure to pay HMRC, the unpaid wages to enjoying and non-playing membership workers, and the present monetary paralysis threatens the existence of our membership. Whereas income continues to movement into the membership by retail and merchandise, there’s at all times the possibility that Dejphon Chansiri’s regime believes it will possibly proceed. We should ship a message; the followers will now not fund his disaster.

Issues

It is a voluntary motion. We aren’t telling anybody assist Sheffield Wednesday. We perceive that for some shopping for shirts or merchandise is a part of a household custom. We’re not right here to evaluate. We’re merely asking that those that really feel in a position be a part of us.

The Belief consider it will be significant we take motion as followers to safeguard Sheffield Wednesday for future generations, to make sure that dad and mom proceed to expertise the enjoyment of taking our kids and grandchildren to Hillsborough, and that cherished reminiscences should not taken away from us. That we should even take into account a future with out Sheffield Wednesday, and make troublesome sacrifices comparable to a merchandise and retail boycott, is the fault of just one particular person, Dejphon Chansiri.

If this motion isn’t for you, however you consider that Dejphon Chansiri mustn’t proceed to personal Sheffield Wednesday Soccer Membership, there will likely be different avenues to get entangled introduced by the Belief in coming weeks. For instance, the Belief is presently working onerous to give you choices as to how greatest the fanbase can assist non-playing workers.

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Twitter customers gave their response as Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Belief name for a boycott of official merchandise and retail offered by the membership…

@PeterRinkcavage: For those who genuinely need to assist, you must observe this. We’ve to starve him out.

@mattclements22: Certainly this can be a given, obtained to be finished! #chansiriout

@CiaoGinowfc: That is what an actual supporters belief appears to be like like.

@DannyGreenRover: Been saying it for a very long time, Chansiri would at all times have the higher hand due to how loyal Wednesday followers are! You retain shopping for the stuff you’ll lining his pockets, proper factor to do that! Hope he sells and also you get sorted quickly

@SW18_67FC: Ive already ordered my DHgate specialz! Not placing one other penny into the membership. For the final 3 years from being a season ticket holder for 20yrs Ive needed to decide & select my video games… This upcoming season & whereas #chansiriout remains to be in cost I wont be attending any video games

@roblittlewood: That’s gone on for some time as a result of neither have any inventory anyway

@workotv1867: Or to go to the additional step – Go and watch @sheffieldfc or @parksteelsfc and so on. They are going to respect your fandom SO way more than the present Possession, and likewise deprives Chansiri of the earnings he might use to justify retaining the membership. #swfc

@SamNevin98: Now PLEASE go one additional and simply don’t go. Actually there are one million and one different issues you can do together with your Saturdays. For those who care that deeply concerning the membership, not going is of extra profit to the long run way forward for Sheffield Wednesday than going is #swfc

@Christoph0512: Unhappy however needed. #swfc

@Lea_Leeman: Massively in assist of this 👏

@FionaAntcliff: Genuinely extra fearful concerning the workers and having a crew in the mean time! Will we even be watching Wednesday on sixteenth Aug 😭🙈 I’ll completely boycott any merchandise gross sales personally however we’ve obtained to recover from a lot of hurdles to start out the season 😢

@s6_swfc: It’s needed for me. Use the boycott of shopping for stuff from the membership to chop off what cash he’s getting in and form of smoke him out the membership.

@OWLNEVERABLUNT: I cannot purchase nothing, that features matchday ticket/season ticket too & that is in NO approach a dig at any participant however a dig at that twat proprietor.

@Danny4swfc: Good from the belief once more, glad they’ve mentioned what they’ve mentioned relating to tickets, I believe when you can financially it’s essential whoever is on that pitch subsequent season has loads of assist, it’s going to be wanted 🦉