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
The Game in numbers
- Tuesday,
Youngsters enjoy an FA Tesco Skills training session at the Hive in north London.
As The FA prepares for its 150th birthday, we look at the National Game in numbers