Birmingham County Football Association (BCFA) are one of the largest regional governing bodies in the English Football Associations network of 49 organisations.
Unlike the name suggests BCFA covers the 3 main cities in the West Midlands, namely Birmingham, Wolverhampton & Coventry but their reach extends into the Black Country, Walsall, Warwickshire, Tamworth and into East Staffordshire.
BCFA are a not-for-profit membership organisation with 1000 football clubs, 7 of which are professional, but the majority fall under what is more commonly known as “Grassroots”. This number of clubs equates to 5600 teams, 1400 qualified match officials, 25,000 volunteers & coaches and upwards of 100,000 regular players participating in all formats of the game. Within the region over 48,000 affiliated games happen each season.
The Economic Report for Football published by the Football Association in 2019 estimated that for the BCFA region, through social & economic value, grassroots football generated c.£522 million to the local economy each season.
On their membership with SWM, they say:
“As a local governing body, BCFA recognise the need to act now to ensure the beautiful game significantly reduces its environmental impact, whilst helping to educate those involved in football at all levels to make informed decisions that will shape how much future generations will be able to enjoy and sustain the game in the long term. While grassroots football is not the cause of climate change; most clubs are SME sized, often loss-making, volunteer led enterprises with a microscale carbon footprint, it offers huge potential for engagement, as the scale on which people share a close affinity with their community club is perhaps unparalleled in any other sport, activity or business.”
Our primary contact is Kevin Shoemake, CEO.