Eighty Grassroots Football Facilities To Benefit From EPL, FA Grants Worth $8.5M

Another 80 grassroots football facilities in need of investment are set to benefit from grants worth £5.6M ($8.5M) from the Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund’s latest funding window. The Fund, managed and delivered by the Football Foundation, has generated a further £12.1M ($18.5M) in partnership funding from the £5.6M provided by the EPL, the FA and the government, via Sport England. The money will help develop new and upgrade existing community sports facilities with floodlit, all-weather third-generation (3G) artificial grass pitches (AGPs) and modern changing rooms across the country. Therefore, 235 grassroots projects have now benefited from a total of £44.8M ($68.8M) of investment from the Fund since it opened to applications in Jan. '14 (FA).