The Football Association celebrates its 150th anniversary next year.

To celebrate that landmark, we've broken down the National Game in numbers:-

FA150 – Supporting football since 1863

- 7m people play football, including 3.9m children.

- More than 400,000 volunteers help make the national game.

- £100m invested back into the game annually, for the third straight year.

- Charitable donations topped £20m last year.

- £54.5m invested into grassroots facilities in the past season.

- Ten years of The FA Cup has put £650m back into football.

- Green light for 9v9 games for U11s-12s, with smaller goals and pitches.

- St. George’s Park officially open, providing a new coaching hub and home to all of England's 24 teams.

- 280,000 qualified coaches, drive for more black and minority.

- More than 115,000 weekly participants in disability football.

- 185 new disability sides making football the nation’s seventh most played team sport.

- Women’s Super League has completed its second successful season.

- More than 3.5m Tesco Skills places for 5 to 11-year-olds.

- More than 100,000 people taking part in FA Mars Just Play programme

- 291 new qualified and active referees, male and female