To: The Premier League
Increase Financial Support for Grassroots Football
Allocate a minimum of 5% of the revenue they derive from the worldwide rights for televising Premier League football matches to the grassroots of our national game.
Why is this important?
Grassroots football suffers from a lack of national funding towards increasing participation in our national game and for the improvement of facilities and coaching at grassroots level. Numerous clubs at non league level have poor pitches, poor spectator and player facilities. This discourages many players and supporters from being involved at the grassroots level.
Lack of support is limiting the number of homegrown players in the UK who can progress into our national teams, which has caused a lack of success at international competitions for many years.
Lack of support is limiting the number of homegrown players in the UK who can progress into our national teams, which has caused a lack of success at international competitions for many years.
