EVERY PLAYER COUNTS
Over 11,000 children, young people and adults with disabilities have been introduced to football through our Every Player Counts programme.
The programme, which is co-funded by EFL Trust and Wembley National Stadium Trust (WNST), aims to offer the benefits of playing football to people with a wide range of disabilities. The landmark project was made possible thanks to a £1.1m donation from WNST in 2016 and further £500,000 in 2018. This has been WNST’s largest single charitable investment to date and its first England-wide grants programme.
WHO RUNS THE PROGRAMME?
28 EFL Clubs run Every Player Counts programmes that are tailored to the specific needs of their local community.
The 28 EFL Club Community Organisations deliver activity covering a wide range of disability programmes including wheelchair football, football for visual impairment, learning difficulties, amputees and autism, giving many disabled people access to football for the first time.
Although individual programmes will differ from club to club, the emphasis is always on increasing participation, improving health and championing the social benefits of taking part in football.
