FA pledges £180m of grassroots funding to boost football's Covid-19 recovery

FA pledges £180m of grassroots funding to boost football's Covid-19 recovery:

• ‘Pitch Power’ app will help ground staff maintain surfaces
• FA aims for ‘visionary, strategic view over next four years’

The Football Association is to look at new formats for football matches and will encourage ground staff to maintain their pitches via an app in a push to do more with less and save the grassroots game.

As participation sports returns next week, a new four-season strategy – Survive, Revive and Thrive – will lay out the FA’s vision for the game post-Covid. Included in £180m of funding is money for pitches, alongside commitments to help clubs with fees and funding for football in deprived communities. But with the game and its governing body suffering financial challenges because of the pandemic, the money will have to work hard.

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