FA releases plan to increase diversity as figures reveal familiar failings

• Only 5% of those in FA leadership roles from BAME background
• FA wants to ensure diversity ‘from bootroom to boardroom’

The FA has published a three-year plan to make themselves “as diverse and inclusive as possible” as their chairman, Greg Clarke, declared that “football shouldn’t just be trying to keep up with the pace of societal change; it should be helping to lead it”.

The new plan, called In Pursuit of Progress, is part of the FA’s commitment, announced in January, to ensure that those running the game reflect those playing it. Paul Elliott, the former Chelsea player who now chairs the FA’s inclusion advisory board, said the organisation has “the opportunity to make a long-term difference and have a huge impact on what football looks like on and off the field”.

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