FA commits £1.5m to disability football

The Football Association (FA) will invest £1.5m in improving opportunities for disability football in England.

The Disability Football Development Fund – launched this month – will run until 2017 and is part of the FA's aim to encourage more than 30,000 new disabled players and create 600 new disability football teams.

Disability football is the seventh most played team sport overall, with currently 35 county disability football leagues and more than 1,500 disability football teams in England.