The FAI today unveiled a €863 million wishlist of facility improvements.
Gavin Cooney THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION of Ireland say the sport has been suffered from under-investment for 20 years and significant investment in facilities is needed for the sport to fulfill its potential and avoid lagging further behind the sport in other European nations.
Speaking at a press event around the publication of the report, FAI CEO Jonathan Hill said football in Ireland has suffered from under-investment across the last 20 years, saying, “this is not the fault of one single entity, but it is a fact.” “I do believe the FAI is in a very different place to where it was two years ago”, said CEO Hill. “We are coming to the end of the period whereby the Memorandum of Understanding we signed with the government that led to that necessary and much appreciated investment in 2020 is coming to and end. As part of that there have been 163 finance and governance recommendations that we were asked to bring into the Association. By the end of 2023 we will have achieved all of those.
The Grassroots piece is the largest, coming to a total cost of €426 million. The FAI want to build eight regional centres across the country, beneath which will sit at least four new centres of excellence per region, to ensure that nobody has to drive more than 30 minutes to play football. Across the next 15 years, the FAI want to build and revamp facilities to the point that there are 10 stadia of capacities between 10,000 and 20,000, with another 10 stadia of up to 6,000 capacity.
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