Football clubs who pledged to improve their ethnic and gender diversity have collectively failed to hit any of their annual targets, the Football Association has revealed.
The third year of the Football Leadership Diversity Code (FLDC), a voluntary agreement established by the FA and signed up to by 56 clubs from the Premier League, English Football League, Women’s Super League and Women’s Championship, has shown “slower progress than hoped”, according to Mark Bullingham. The FA’s chief executive said he was disappointed and announced that, from next year, all clubs across the top four divisions of men’s football and the top two in the women’s game would be obliged to publish data on the make-up of their workforce.
