A total of 80 grassroots football facilities in England will benefit from £17.7m worth of investment from the Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund.
The latest funding round will help develop new and upgrade existing community sports facilities with floodlit, all-weather third-generation (3G) artificial grass pitches (AGPs) and modern changing rooms.
Richard Scudamore, Premier League CEO, said: “These new sites are hubs of their communities, used by schools and local teams, and enable more people to enjoy our national game each week purely for the love of it.
“Many of the facilities are also used by Premier League and other professional clubs for their excellent community work.”
The latest round follows on from two previous tranches of funding in May 2014 and October 2014, which yielded £44.8m of investment and saw 235 grassroots facilities projects benefit.
Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund aims to improve the experience for regular grassroots players and attract new players by providing more high quality facilities.
The 80 projects that have been awarded grants in the third round of funding for the third funding window of the Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund
are listed here.
• In March 2014,
a survey by Sky Sports showed that 46 per cent of those playing regular grassroots football rated facilities in their area as "poor" or "very poor".
