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- AoC Sport helps FA conquer female football target
AoC Sport helps FA conquer female football target
AoC Sport is proud to have played an important part in helping the FA conquer their ambitious target of doubling female participation in football across the country between 2017 and 2020.
https://youtu.be/LGH9tfECJ5w
Nationally 3.4m women and girls are now playing football and 1,621 Wildcats centres have been established across the country, which is an increase of 715% from 2017.
These centres have given nearly 34,000 young girls the confidence to give football a go for the first time.
In partnership with the FA, AoC Sport has successfully worked with member colleges to develop football and futsal opportunities for their students and for the community they serve, by providing a quality competition offer for females in further education, and through launching the trailblazing women’s football apprentice programme.
Despite the 2019/20 season being cut short, our network of FA funded colleges, known as College Grassroots Hubs, engaged a total of 14,195 females within the game this year. Furthermore, the number of hubs offering fun, recreational sessions for females has risen from 80% to 92% over the last year.
Skye Smith, one of this year's apprentices, charted her journey in the infographic below, showing the variety and engagement of female football in her college and community.
The women’s football apprentice programme began in 2017 has trained a total of 37 apprentices to increase female participation and also boost their employability skills for a future career in football.
Women’s Football Apprentices
The 15 current women’s football apprentices, who are referenced in the FA’s article as being the future workforce for the game, have this year engaged 6,156 new or lapsed players across all their programmes including within colleges and within local schools.Stats for 2019/20
New female participants (new to college, lapsed or new to football) | 6,156 |
Female leaders recruited to support female football | 204 |
Female participants with a disability | 428 |
BAME across all of the above areas | 656 |
Total female participants engaged | 6,360 |
New female participants (new to college, lapsed or new to football) | 14,258 |
Female leaders recruited to support female football | 716 |
Female participants with a disability | 555 |
BAME across all of the above areas | 1,064 |
Total female participants engaged | 14,974 |