grassroots facilities news

The UK and Scottish governments should classify gyms, health clubs, swimming pools and leisure centres as essential services to enable them to stay open during ... More

US billionaire Shahid Khan has withdrawn his bid to buy Wembley, English football's national stadium. Khan, the owner of Fulham Football Club and the Jacksonville ... More

A Labour MP has proposed that professional English football clubs should discount ticket prices for young people and plough a percentage of transfer fees into ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is planning to develop an artificial grass pitch in Liverpool on the site of one of the Football Association’s (FA) ... More

Around £15m (US$19.6m, €17.5m) of government funding will go towards the development of cycling facilities in England if it wins the bid to host the ... More

The Football Association (FA) is awaiting the green light to build grassroots football hubs in Liverpool and West London after establishing facilities in Sheffield. New ... More

Tottenham Hotspur FC has secured an option to play its home league and cup games at Wembley Stadium while work on its new ground is ... More

The Football Association (FA) will lose all its government funding if it fails to undertake significant governance reforms, according to culture secretary John Whittingdale. Whittingdale ... More

Funding from the Premier League and Football Association (FA) backed Football Foundation has helped to establish a £1.8m (US$2.6m, €2.3m) multi-sport facility in Bolton. The ... More

The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is gearing up to launch a “bigger and bolder” facilities strategy later this year, according to its director of participation. ... More

The government hopes to encourage private sector investment in grassroots sport by exploring the possibility of reducing or scrapping corporation tax, thus weaning clubs and ... More

More than 2,000 grass pitches across the country will be improved as a result of an £8m (US$11.3m, €10.2m) fund set aside by the Football ... More

Populous – the architects behind the London 2012 Olympic Stadium – are consulting on the design of a new football stadium in Pune as Indian ... More

Grassroots facilities have benefited from £47m (US$67m, €61.8m) worth of grants in 2015 according to the Football Foundation’s annual report. The body, which was set ... More

The Football Association (FA) has requested pitch information from its affiliated clubs to discover areas of under-investment and playing spaces threatened by outside developments. A ... More

The Premier League and Football Association (FA) ploughed £14m (US$20.7m, €19m) into the upgrade of 163 grassroots facilities in the six months ending December 2015. ... More

The government and Football Association (FA) should work together to impose a levy on agents’ fees which would trickle down into grassroots football, according to ... More

The Football Association (FA) has inked a 10-year deal with leisure and fitness provider Pulse to operate three new grassroots football facilities in Sheffield. The ... More

The Football Association (FA) has secured a refinancing deal for Wembley Stadium, which could result in the national governing body saving more than £10m a ... More

Football Association (FA) chief executive Martin Glenn has renewed the FA’s pledge to increase spending on grassroots football – and the number of artificial pitches. ... More

The new sports minister, Tracey Crouch, has called on the English Premier League (EPL) to increase its investment in grassroots football. Speaking at the Sports ... More

Following criticisms that the new £5.14bn TV deal recently secured for rights to air the Premier League wasn’t benefitting most of English football, football’s most ... More

A number of politicians and former players have called for the English Premier League (EPL) to ensure it "gives more money back" to the sport’s ... More

A total of 80 grassroots football facilities in England will benefit from £17.7m worth of investment from the Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund. ... More

The poor state of grass playing pitches is having a negative effect on grassroots football in England. A survey by Sky Sports, completed by 2,500 ... More