Premier League, EFL clubs failing to meet diversity targets – FA

English football clubs have collectively failed to meet annual targets to improve their ethnic and gender diversity, the Football Association (FA) said on Wednesday in a report on the Football Managers’ Diversity Code for the season 2022-23.

A total of 53 clubs from the Premier League and English Football League (EFL) have signed the code, which was introduced in 2020 to focus on increasing equal opportunities to encourage the recruitment of diverse talent within management teams, team operations and coaches. configurations.

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“Progress is being made in some areas, but the professional football workforce in England fails to reflect the levels of diversity within the playing population…” the FA said.

“Hiring rates are currently not high enough to enable the rapid change needed.”

The FA added that it was considering making it mandatory for professional clubs in the English leagues “to report data on age, sex, gender, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation within their organizations”.

The chief executive of anti-discrimination body Kick It Out, Tony Burnett, has urged the Premier League and EFL to implement sanctions for non-compliance.

“Without this commitment, we will not know the true scale of the challenge or be able to find solutions to make football more representative of the people who love the sport,” Burnett said.