FA launches code to boost diversity at football's highest levels

REUTERS: The Football Association launched a new drive to increase ethnic and gender diversity at the top levels of English soccer on Tuesday, setting out targets in a bid to reduce the role that personal networks have long played in top-level appointments.

One of the code's main aims is for clubs to move away from recruitment practices focused on personal networks - which the FA described as a"longstanding challenge" that had limited diversity in leadership across the game. But clubs will also be allowed to set their own targets based on local demographics, according to the code.For normal coaching jobs, the target for men's clubs is for 25per cent of new hires to be Black, Asian or mixed-heritage, while for senior coaching roles it is 10per cent. Fifty percent of new coaching hires at women's clubs will be female while 15per cent will be Black, Asian or of mixed-heritage, the code says.

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