Media Essentials Guide for the 2025-26 Season

Friday 01 Aug 2025
2025-26 Media Essentials

Our Media Essentials Guide for the 2025-26 season is available to download below.

This guide is produced each year to support broadcast, print, and online journalists to understand our Rules and Regulations. It is also intended to help ensure that any reporting around these guidelines is accurate for viewers, readers or listeners.

Our general on and off-field regulatory and disciplinary processes that apply to football ‘participants’ during the 2025-26 season are explained in the form of step-by-step guides and timelines where applicable.

Please direct any questions about these topics to our Media Relations team in the first instance by using the following email address:

Media.Relations@TheFA.com

Our Rules and Regulations are available in full via:

www.TheFA.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules

By FA Staff