Football Accredited Universities is a programme funded by The
FA, which aims to consistently raise the standards across both the
equality of access to football provision as well as the quality of
that provision.
Accredited universities can access member services such as Club
Committee Leaders, staff network days, Activators days and our
award-winning Women’s Leadership Programme.
Additionally, all accredited universities will have the opportunity
to apply for funding to deliver development projects, which 10 of
our accredited universities have delivered this year, with case
studies available on our Youtube Channel. We also launched our
Referee Development Hubs programme, a fund to support
universities in upskilling new referees. 12 institutions developed
91 new student referees. Both funding opportunities are live now
for the 2024-25 season, contact Football Development Team if
your institution is interested.
Of the 91 institutions who are accredited, 18 achieved a 3* rating,
the highest score available on the programme. Congratulations to
the following institutions:
- University of East Anglia
- Loughborough University
- Nottingham Trent University
- Royal Holloway University of London
- Durham University
- Northumbria University
- Manchester Met University
- University Academy 92 Manchester
- University of Brighton
- University of Surrey
- Hartpury University
- University of Exeter
- University of Warwick
- University of Wolverhampton
- Leeds Beckett University
- Sheffield Hallam University
- University of Hull
- University of Leeds
We would like to thank all the universities who have engaged with
the accredited universities programme during the 2023-24
season; we are continuing to evolve our offer for universities we
begin to deliver on a new FA strategy.
To download and read the full Football Development Impact Report see below
Football Development 2023-24-compressed.pdf
You can find out more about the BUCS Football Accreditation
offer here.
If you are interested in becoming accredited for 2023-24, please
contact the Football Development Team.
