1. Name
a. The association shall be called the International Association of Ex-Professional Footballers.

2. Objectives
The objectives of the association are:
a. To improve the quality of life for ex-professional footballers and their families.
b. To represent, protect and serve the interests, rights, entitlements, benefits and welfare of ex-professional footballers.
c. To provide a framework of opportunity through structure and deed that allows all members to participate in and benefit from the activities of the Association.
d. To promote and further the good name and tradition of professional football and foster a spirit of fellowship, sportsmanship and goodwill among former professional players and others.
e. The promotion and organisation of sporting and social activities for and on behalf of the members of the Association.
f. To support and assist charitable organisations and other deserving causes.

3. Membership Eligibility
The following shall qualify for membership of the Association.
Full Members
Persons having entered into a full professional playing contract with a Football League or Premier League football club in the UK and Ireland.
Management committee members.
Associate Members
Persons having entered into a full professional playing contract with a football club that was not a member of the 
Football League or Premier League.
Dependants of former professional footballers now deceased
Patron Members
Individuals and/or companies who have demonstrated or wish to exercise an affinity with XPRO.
Honorary Members
The management committee may elect as an Honorary Member any person who is deemed to have rendered outstanding service to the association or to the game of professional football.
The management committee shall from time to time appoint individuals to positions within the association of Patrons, Chairman, Chief Executive, General Secretary, Treasurer and any other roles as required of the association.
Life Members
The management committee and full members may elect as a Life Member any person who is deemed to have rendered outstanding service to the association, to the game of professional football, or to have been appointed an officer of the management committee.

4. Membership Procedure
a. The members, through the management committee, shall have the power to propose new members but such proposals shall not take effect unless and until confirmed at the AGM.
b. Proposals and nominations for membership of the Association shall be made in writing to the General Secretary no later than fourteen days before the AGM.
5. Subscriptions
a. The annual subscription for each membership category shall be such a sum as recommended by the management committee and subsequently approved by the AGM.
b. Membership will be valid for a period of twelve months from the first day of January in each year.
c. The management committee may cancel membership on the failure of any member to make the necessary payment within thirty (30) days of the due date.
d. Membership subscriptions can be made by single payment in cash or by cheque, or by monthly direct debit instalments.

6. Management
a. A management committee of up to eight (8) members, including the officers of the management committee, shall manage the association.
b. The officers of the management committee shall be the Chairman, the Chief Executive, the General Secretary, the Treasurer, and any other post(s) deemed necessary by the management committee.
c. The management committee shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and, subject to termination of office by resignation or otherwise, shall remain in office until their successors are elected at an AGM.
d. The management committee shall elect its officers annually at the first meeting following the AGM. 
e. The management committee will meet on no less than four (4) occasions per calendar year, the dates of which will be at the discretion of the management committee.
f. At all meetings of the management committee, four (4) members will form a quorum.
g. The management committee shall have the power to fill any vacancy on the management committee that may occur.
h. At the AGM and management committee meetings, the management committee Chairman shall have a casting or additional vote in case of an equality of votes.
i. In pursuance of the objectives of the association, as defined in Rules 2.a to 2.f of this Constitution, the management committee shall have the power to allocate specific tasks to a member or members of the management committee.

7. Expulsion of Members
a. The management committee may expel any member who offends against the Rules of the Association or whose conduct, in the opinion of the management committee, renders the member unfit for membership.
b. Before any member can be expelled, the General Secretary must serve seven (7) days written notice to attend a meeting of the management committee setting out full details of the complaint on which it is intended to rely.
c. No member may be expelled unless a majority of the management committee then present vote in favour of the expulsion.

8. Annual General Meeting
a. A General meeting of the association shall take place in each year to conduct the following business and fifteen (15) months must not elapse without a General Meeting.
b. To receive reports from the officers of the management committee.
c. To receive an audited financial statement from the Treasurer.
d. To receive or consider, and if approved, sanction any duly made alteration to the Constitution.
e. To receive, and if approved, sanction the management committee recommendations for members subscriptions for the following year.
f. To elect members of the management committee.
g. To appoint an auditor or auditors.
h. To deal with any matter which the management committee desire to bring before the members.
i. To receive suggestions from the members for consideration by the management committee.
j. To consider proposals and nominations and elect new members to the association.
k. Voting is restricted to Full Members.
l. Notice convening the AGM shall be sent in writing, with the agenda, to all members not less than twenty-eight days prior.
m. The date of the AGM shall be entirely at the discretion of the management committee.
n. At the AGM, the Chairman of the association shall have a casting or additional vote in case of an equality of votes.
o. At General meetings, 33% of full members eligible to attend shall form a quorum.

9. Extraordinary General Meeting
a. An Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) may be convened at any time within twenty-one (21) days of the requisition of one-third of the Full Members.
b. A requisition must state the purpose for which a meeting is required and must be remitted to the General Secretary.

10. Bank Account
a. A Bank or Building Society account shall be opened in the name of the association.
b. Officers of the association or management committee must be authorised by a Resolution of the management committee to sign cheques or withdrawal forms and a mandate must be given to the Bank or Building Society accordingly.
c. A copy of the authorising Resolution, signed by a member who is the management committee Chairman at the time the Resolution is passed, is sufficient authority to the Bank or Building Society.

11. Distribution of Funds
a. Funds arising from the activities of the association may be applied for the benefit of the association as a whole or for charitable or benevolent purposes chosen by resolution of the management committee.
b. Members may make recommendations, in writing, to the General Secretary at any time. The management committee will consider such recommendations.
c. All reasonable and legitimate expenses incurred by a management committee member or members in pursuance of specific tasks, as defined in Rule 6.i, shall be paid against presentation of the appropriate receipts. Such receipts shall be subject to sanction by a quorum of the management committee, excluding the member claiming such expenses.

12. Alteration of the Constitution
a. No alteration of or addition to this Constitution may be made except by a Resolution carried by a majority of the members who are present and entitled to vote at a General Meeting, the notice of which contained particulars of the proposed alteration or addition.

13. Dissolution
a. Authority to dissolve the association shall be derived from a resolution approved by the majority of members present at an EGM convened in accordance with clauses 9.a and 9.b hereof.
b. On the dissolution of the association, its assets shall be distributed for charitable purposes and the beneficiaries shall be nominated by the Officers of the management committee immediately before the holding of such meeting.