The Football Association, the governing body for football in England, which runs the England teams, the FA Cup and Wembley Stadium, and the national football centre at St George's Park.
The Football Association, known as The FA, is the governing body for football in England, and it is not-for-profit. It runs the England teams, including the men's senior team, the Lionesses, development teams and para teams. It also runs competitions such as the Emirates FA Cup, the Women's FA Cup, the FA Trophy, the FA Vase, the FA Youth Cup and the FA Community Shield, and it looks after the laws of the game, discipline, safeguarding and anti-doping rules. Alongside the football, The FA group owns Wembley Stadium, the national stadium, and St George's Park, the national football centre. It also helped set up Women's Super League Football Limited, which took over the women's professional game in August 2024.
The FA's purpose, in its 2024-25 annual report, is 'Inspiring Positive Change Through Football'. Its chair describes the aim as a national game that is 'inclusive, sustainable, and governed with integrity'. Its strategic priorities for 2024-28 are to win tournaments, to build a game free from discrimination, to create equal opportunities for women and girls, and to transform the pitch landscape. The report says that, since the grassroots strategy started, girls' participation rose 165 per cent and more than 1,900 new 3G pitches were built. These are the organisation's own figures.
In the UK, The FA's registered office is at Wembley Stadium in north-west London, where it reports 42 events in the year attracting over 2.5 million guests. St George's Park, the national football centre, is in Staffordshire and is described as having passed its tenth year of operation. The FA works with 50 County FAs across England, which link the national body to local clubs and leagues. It also leads delivery of the UEFA EURO 2028 tournament in the UK and Ireland through a separate company, UK & Ireland 2028 Limited.
On culture, the annual report says staff take pride in driving change in football, that a 2024 colleague survey showed high engagement, and that the chief executive credits a 'united purpose'. It describes work on safeguarding, anti-discrimination, a King's Trust employability programme, the Wembley Stadium Foundation, which gives one per cent of event-day revenue to local causes, and a partnership with the Alzheimer's Society. All of this comes from the organisation's own report and we have not tested it.
The FA employs people in many fields beyond coaching: football development and refereeing, safeguarding, sustainability, crowd safety and logistics, stadium events and hospitality at Wembley, commercial and marketing teams, finance and legal. The FA's 'Who we are' pages say staff are based at Wembley Stadium and St George's Park, so there are options in both London and the Midlands. The FA's own careers site lists current vacancies.
Website: www.thefa.com
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