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About Club England

  • Friday, 01 October, 2010
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Club England has been established to create a 'club culture'.



Club England’s role is to develop a strong, consistent approach across England’s 24 representative teams including men’s, women’s, youth and disability sides.

In other words, it is set up to create a ‘club culture’.

In The FA Vision 2008-2012, the goal was set for all of the England teams to successfully qualify for tournaments and challenge to win finals at the later stages of competitions. In order to deliver this, The FA decided to create a new Club England structure with all team operations, security and medical staff merged and reporting into the Club England Managing Director Adrian Bevington, who in turn reports directly to The FA General Secretary Alex Horne.

The Club England structure is overseen by Sir Dave Richards alongside Alex Horne, Adrian Bevington, Director of Football Development Sir Trevor Brooking and Director of Club England Team Operations Michelle Farrer.

Club England is set up to:

• Deliver a coherent strategy for providing all England teams with the best platform for success
• Create the right environment and conditions that will enable the England teams to be successful
• Instil a winning mentality in all England teams
• Continually develop international players through the age groups with a view to their performance in the respective senior squads
• Develop an 'England Team' ethos which permeates through all of the teams
• Provide first-class support services for all of the coaching staff and teams
• Ensure a strong, cohesive collective approach to all activities across all teams, enabling staff to draw on the experiences gained from each of the teams, avoid duplication and become more effective 

Operationally Club England’s role is to:

• Oversee all team routine operational and planning matters, including addressing fixture scheduling, travel and accommodation arrangements and supporting commercial and communication plans
• Deliver a collective medical, physiotherapy and sports science programme across all the England teams
• Ensure the safety of all the teams and supporters is given paramount importance
• Develop a strong working relationship with Wembley Stadium to deliver a successful calendar that both prepares for football and considers the opposition which will drive the wider Group business plan
• Work with Wembley to deliver an environment and atmosphere that provides a genuine home for the England men’s senior team
• Provide a first-class scouting operation which will monitor and evaluate all of England’s developing and senior players while assessing opponents
• Support the England 2018/22 Bid to host the FIFA World Cup and (hopefully) beyond in subsequent tournament planning
• Develop strong relationships with all key-stakeholders – players, managers, clubs, leagues, sponsors, broadcasters and agents
• Be a major ambassador for fairness, social inclusion, health and education in our society. This will include working closely with the International Relations team and charity partners to support The FA’s Corporate Social Responsibility work
• Deliver a comprehensive budget management programme for the division, including establishing policies with the coaching staff for travel and accommodation across teams to appropriate levels 

The England Manager reports through Alex Horne to Club England with direct day-to-day support from Adrian Bevington and Sir Trevor Brooking. The women’s and men’s national team coaches report to Sir Trevor Brooking.

Club England reports to The FA Board and will always refer significant financial and commercial decisions to The FA Board, including all matters concerning the contract of the men's senior team England Manager.


What Do You Think?

  • The FA can´t do much better than backing or just endorsing NextStars who with the backing of the LFE are giving a second chance & needed development time to released Young English players in Spain while adding The Spanish Way to English GritBy NextStars (7 months ago)
  • Now that Club England has been functioning for a number of months, I really wonder why no positive results have been shown, especially with regard to Capello's handling of the national senior team. Capello has created a number of controversies when handlind the selection options available to him. Some of them have been plainly quite objectionable and ill-advised. Did Club England do anything about them?! Mark Said from Malta.By fabfan (23 months ago)
  • Great plan. Where do I sign up to be a club member? Yes, I've got a FAN number, and I havent missed an England match since I dont know when, but the concept of a club opens so much more potential. I think that the dot point on developing an "England team ethos" is a particularly strong step forward and something that is clearly lacking at the supporter level - and supporters become players so I'm afraid the problem I'm about to describe permeates, at some level (small I hope), through to the player level too - and if so that translates to on field problems. As an overseas based supporter it has infuriated me beyond belief that when I finally do find a venue that's covering an England match live on TV, when other "supporters" gather at the venue they spend much of the match organising themselves into club based groups - "who's your team?" is the first question they ask me. "England" I say. "No, no, whos your club?" If they're Man U and if I'm not or theyre Thornaby and I'm not, then its like I'm the opposition in the match and they'll spend the rest of the match screaming at the tv that Walcott, Wilshere or whoever is not from 'their' team should fek off and pass the ball to their teams best man. If even a fraction of a fraction of this is within the team - and I'm not seeing it but who knows what lurks hidden in player heads behind those errant passes - then we have a team problem that needs to be crushed at every possible level. "Who's your club?" when they are on the field, "England" when they are off the field, support whoever you like but dont bring that other club onto the field when England are on it.By Ian (26 months ago)
  • Well how about instead of talking about it yet still get sweet f.a done (pun intended), you start building for the future of England! Grow a pair and get rid of Capello, and find a good British manager who is willing to take the risk and build us a quality side. Time has come to let go of Gerrard, Lamps, Ferdinand etc and to start fast-tracking these young players in. Off the top of my head there are more young players out there than Capello wants to notice because he still trusts his old guard. But what about when they're gone? Who will have the confidence to step in after being blatantly ignored after all this time and the years to come until something is finally done about it and these young players have lost their patience. Jack Wilshere, Tom Cleverley, Eric Dier, Kieran Gibbs, Micah Richards, Mark Taylor, Adam Hammill...to name a few! To round up, stop talking about it and trying to keep face with all of these pointless campaigns which will have absolutely no end result, because all the while we still have Capello in charge of our senior team, nothing will get done. By concerened supporter! (30 months ago)
  • I think that Club England is a marvellous idea! This should have been in place quite a while ago, but, as they say, better late than never! Hopefully, this venture and innovation will go on to achieve all round positive and concrete results. Good luck Club England! Dr. Mark Said from Malta.By Engfan (31 months ago)