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- The English Football Association - The FA
Regional Associations of football have committees. The committee includes: -
- Chairperson – they represent the club
- Vice chairperson – they represent the club in the absence of the Chairperson
- Treasurer – Manages the clubs finances
- Secretary – Informs all of the clubs members what is going on
- Fixture secretary – Organises the clubs events, matches and meetings
- Membership secretary – Enrols new members to the club
- Coaches – Helps all the members train
This committee of members is needed for any local club to function properly.
The order of importance of a committee starting with the least important all the way up to the most important is: -
- Coaches
- Membership secretary
- Fixture secretary
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Vice chairperson
- Chairperson
A local association of football tries to encourage young people to keep on playing football. Its helps members improve their skills and experience of the sport. It runs competitions within the club and with other clubs.
Some Local associations in the north west are: -
County
Website
Email
Amateur Football Alliance
Army FA
Cheshire FA
English Schools FA
Isle of Man FA
Lancashire FA
Liverpool FA
Manchester FA
Northumberland FA
RAF FA
Royal Navy FA
Schools FA
Competitions
The English Football Association runs and organises many different competitions ranging from the World Cup all the way through to Women’s under 17 and tournaments for the disabled. All of these tournaments are only for the very best at that level
The following competitions are for everyone to enter including Sunday league teams.
F.A. Sunday Cup
F.A. County Youth Cup.
The F.A. Sunday Cup is a competition for clubs playing in Sunday Leagues around the country. It attracts more than 100 entries from around the country, and culminates in a Final held at a League ground.
The F.A. County Youth Cup is a competition for the representative youth sides of County Football Associations, giving the best young players involved with the grassroots game in each area the chance to shine.
The following tournament is held all over, the country for any team to enter, amateur or professional; these range from teams in the top division like Manchester United to non-league teams like Bamber Bridge. This is the FA Cup; the FA Cup is the oldest club cup in the world it has been going for 133 since 1871. This competition is a straight knock out from the Preliminary Round, four Qualifying Rounds, followed by six Rounds in the Competition Proper, a semi-final and in the final.
Other competitions The FA Challenge Trophy and The FA Vase.
In 1969 The Football Association introduced The FA Challenge Trophy, a knockout competition for non-League clubs with the incentive of an appearance at Wembley for the finalists.
In 1974, with many of the top amateur players receiving payment for playing, The FA abolished the distinction, scrapped the Amateur Cup and introduced The FA Vase for the majority of clubs who had previously played in the Amateur Cup.
Doping control and Testing
The organisation, administration and co-ordination of The Football Association's compulsory Drug Control Programme. This area of work involves the education and awareness of up to 20,000 young and youth players (9-21 year olds) attached to professional club Academies or Centres of Excellence.
The organisation the briefing of professional Club Doctors and Therapists. It involves the liaison and rapport with The U .K. Sports Council's Doping Control Unit and the FA's own Medical Supervising Officers. Over 1200 compulsory, unannounced tests are conducted each season, both post game and post training.
A good example of this crackdown is the former Aston Villa, Manchester United and Chelsea goalkeeper Mark Bosinsch being caught using inappropriate substances. He was caught using cocaine, this is against the code of conduct that the FA have set. As a result he was fined and charged with bringing the game into disrepute. Also his current club at the time of the test Chelsea terminated his contract and he was sacked.
I think that this initiative introduced by the FA is a good idea because this effectively stops professional footballers cheated. This should be used on every player in the top four divisions to eliminate drug abuse for the English game. Unfortunately this will cost too much money to carry out regularly.
Discrimination issues
An example of a discrimination issue is the KICK RACISM OUT OF FOOTBALL campaign.
Kick it out is football’s anti-racism campaign. The Let’s Kick Racism Out of Football campaign was started by the Commission for Racial Equality and the Professional Footballers’ Association in 1993. It is supported by all the game’s governing bodies, supporters’ organisations and local authorities, and works to challenge racism at all levels of the game.
The campaign is currently working in the following areas:
PROFESSIONAL CLUBS~ to ensure a continuing high profile among professional clubs, including the lower divisions and Football Conference.
YOUNG PEOPLE~ developing educational resources for use by young people within schools, colleges and youth organisations.
AMATEUR FOOTBALL~ working at grassroots and amateur levels to eradicate racist abuse from parks football.
ASIANS~ working to help end the exclusion of Asians from the game.
BLACK COMMUNITIES~ increasing the participation of local ethnic minority communities at their clubs.
EUROPEAN FOOTBALL~ building partnerships to help tackle racism in European football.
These are the various organisations that are helping with the kick it out campaign
These are the FA Premier league, The Professional Footballers Association, The English FA and the Football Foundation.
