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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Matt Hughes

Workforce diversity data in English football is welcome but transparency seems to have limits

A goal net
In the Premier League, 78% of clubs’ workforces are white compared with an average of 66% among the local populations. Photograph: Joe Toth/Shutterstock

Premier League and EFL clubs were required this year to report details of their workforce diversity data for the first time under a new Football Association regulation. This was aimed at promoting greater equality of opportunities, but even people working in football are hard-pressed to find the numbers.

The clubs published the results of their internal surveys on 1 June, other than Manchester United owing to a website glitch corrected a few days later, but the silence from the sport regarding the findings has been deafening. None of the FA, Premier League or EFL commented on the data or published a summary of the findings, indicating that the drive for greater transparency has its limits.

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