How the Football Association is managing change

This event report examines changes that are being imposed at the FA, England's Football Association, and what other organisations can learn from them.

How the Football Association is managing change

Joseph CliftWarc

England's Football Association (known as "the FA") is a highly unusual sports body. Unlike most other national football associations, it directly owns the nation's biggest sports stadium: in England's case, Wembley, a 90,000-seater in North London, which hosts music concerts and American Football matches, among other high-grossing events, all year round.

But, despite big and diverse sources of cash – latest financial results show the FA booked £320m of revenues in the last football season, including £121m for broadcasting, £98m from the stadium and £58m for sponsorship – the FA...

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