The Football Leadership Diversity Code aims to tackle racial inequality in the English game. It also hopes to increase the number of female coaches in women’s football. At present, only five of the 91 Premier League and English Football League (EFL) managers or head coaches are BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic). “Football clubs are businesses, they want to be representative of their playing base and their fanbase. Football owns this code, this is for the whole of football so it was important our consultation reflected that.”

Source: The Star October 27, 2020 21:00 UTC