SCOTTISH football fans have called for the SFA and SPFL to be subjected to greater scrutiny in future following a wide-ranging survey conducted by the Scottish Football Supporters’ Association.

Supporters of every club in the country have also demanded an end to their clubs playing the same teams four times every season – and for larger leagues to be introduced.

Around 10,000 fans took part in a survey carried out last year by the SFSA, which has a membership of just under 50,000 despite only being launched in April, about the future of the game.

The group's manifesto, entitled Transforming Scottish Football, was launched at the Scottish Parliament yesterday with the backing of, among others, former First Minister Henry McLeish.

The document outlines nine key points – which include rebuilding the national game with larger leagues, expanding community ownership, increasing diversity and participation in the governing bodies – and also proposes more competitive pricing.

Paul Goodwin, a Partick Thistle fan who was the co-founder of the SFSA, now believes it is important the SFA and SPFL actively involve the group in the debate on the future of the national game.

“The main thing we are trying to do is get a collective voice,” he said. “We are the only country in Europe which has never had a fans organisation. I think that has suited the powers that be down to the ground.

“The big thing that we are pushing for is having a say in what happens to our national game. Fans for a long, long time haven’t had a voice. But nearly 50,000 people have signed up since we formed in April. Things have got to change.

"We have surveyed 10,000 supporters. That has generated a massive amount of information. But we have tried to distil that into something that is both presentable and professional.

“The on-the-park performances are shockingly bad in terms of standards going down. One of the questions which constantly came up is: ‘Who reviews the performance of the SFA, the SPFL and the clubs?’ They all agreed we should be evaluating them and monitoring them more closely.

“We as fans are saying: ‘The product on the park isn’t good enough’. At the top level it’s an embarrassment that Iceland have qualified for the Euro 2016 finals and we haven’t. Northern Ireland are 22 places above us in the FIFA rankings.

“If that happened in business the person at the top would say: ‘We have failed here! Cheerio!’ We want to work together and have a say in the governance of our game."

Goodwin added: “It is now about making sure that the supporters' voice is now heard. We have been speaking to people at Hampden Park. I am sure they will welcome many of the points made in the manifesto. But I have no doubt they will think other aspects of it are a nightmare.

“We have to start thinking about the decline in attendances. The vast majority of clubs in the Premier League bring in crowds of less than 4,500. That affects the quality of the player who can be brought in and the overall product.

“We as fans have collectively said: ‘You know what? Standards are not good enough. What has been done about it? Is the academy system working?

“Raith Rovers fans, Celtic fans and Rangers fans, all sorts of different supporters, came together to talk today. Apart from the colour of our scarves we are all the same. There is a chance here. We are not daft enough not to realise it’s about power and money. But power and money didn’t do any good at Rangers, Dunfermline and Hearts.

“The message we have received back from our members is that pricing needs to be looked at and they don’t want their clubs to be playing the same teams four or more times a season every season. They want a bigger league. We have got to have a voice. We have got to be involved in the debate.

“The timing is perfect for us with an election coming up. We are going to meet with leaders of all the political parties in the coming weeks. I think it is less likely we will be treated with disdain. That is the way we have been governed in the past.”

Simon Barrow, the SFSA chairman, stressed the manifesto highlighted that change was not only necessary, but also achievable.

"This manifesto sets out the most sweeping agenda for regenerating Scottish football yet seen," he said. “We believe this document and the way it's been produced is an important landmark in the journey towards renewing, reforming, and reclaiming our national game.

"What we are talking about here is practical steps to transforming the way the game is structured, the way its run, owned, organised, promoted and reported and financed. The nine broad and interlocking proposals contain some pretty ambitious ideas, we are well aware of that.

"How are such things going to be achieved? We think through a renewed, big conversation about the future of the game involving all its key stakeholders. This manifesto sets out a stall from a fan's point of view of what that conversation needs to tackle."