Football marketing/communications

[Lewi25]

Evening,

I'm looking for advice, It's been a long term ambition of mine to get into football marketing. I've not got the qualifications to do this but I believe I have the skills, little bit of background: I worked for a BTCC team for 2 years maintaining their website and also handled their social media campaigns and have a good understanding and some experience of other forms of marketing.

I recently approached a team and they gave me some great advice which was to get in with a local team and gain relevant experience, my local team play in the 7th tier of English football and they are fairly established (nice stadium, good facilities etc). They do have an older chap who runs the website and social media during the week and on matchdays, I can only speculate that he is paid for this even though the club are fairly small. I tried to reach out to him for advice but he's not responded, would it be worth speaking to the club? I wouldn't expect to be paid for the position, so would only want to be a trainee of sorts, I just don't want them to potentially replace him with me because I'll do it for free.

Anybody been in this position? And does anybody work in this field?

Thanks in advance.

[Lewi25]

Thanks to both of you for the advice, it's very much appreciated. After speaking to a number of people it seems that this is probably something I should of looked into doing a bit earlier. Seems the starting wage for someone in this position is about 14k, and with all the travel it's not really feasable right now with mortgage etc...

Maybe something for the future!