Affiliation will be completed via the Club Portal for the 24/25 season.

For the benefits of what affiliation and being a member of the Amateur FA, download our benefits guide here.

Club Portal is part of The FA’s Platform For Football, an advanced IT system that helps simplify administration for volunteers of Leagues and Clubs. The affiliation process is designed to help reduce the administrative burden that builds up at the start of the season.

Club Secretaries will be able to complete affiliation on a per team basis, rather than having to affiliate the whole of the club in one go. This means the process will not be delayed for example, by the need to confirm qualifications for a coach of one particular team.

On average, the cost per player in affiliated football with the Amateur FA under this structure will be around £1.78 a season.

Affiliation Fees

Prices for affiliation will remain the same as last season.

The table below displays how much each club will be required to pay per team to affiliate for 2024/25 season. There are no separate club fees to pay.

How to Prepare For Affiliation

-  Familiarise yourself with using the Club Portal to process your club admin (apart from processing discipline).
-  Create any new teams ready for when affiliation opens.
-  Ensure all outstanding invoices from this season are paid. You will not be able to complete your affiliation without these being paid.
-  Ensure all player suspensions from last season have been assigned fixtures (unless the suspension is carrying over to next season). If you need any help, please click here or contact discipline@amateur-fa.com. 
- Once you have finished your season, we strongly encourage all clubs to access their Club Portal and detach any players that are no longer part of your club.

For further information on the affiliation changes, please click the button below.

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Requirements For Affiliation 24/25

Safeguarding

1. Player Welfare Course (new requirement) - All team officials (except team secretary) will be required to complete a player welfare course prior to affiliation for the 2024/25 season. You can find the course here. 
2. FA DBS Checks - For teams with U18 players the Club Welfare Officer, team coach/manager and team medic/first aider must have a valid DBS. For more information click here. 
3. Safeguarding Declaration - Every club will be required to accept a Safeguarding Declaration.
4. Clubs with Adult Disability Teams - Require a named ‘Welfare Officer (Adult Disability Teams)’. The free Safeguarding Adults Course is recommended for this role.

Club Ground 
It is a requirement for clubs to state their main home ground. You can do this ahead of affiliation through the ‘My Club’ tab. You can find guidance on how to complete this here.

Team Ground 
It is a requirement for teams to state their main home ground. You can do this ahead of affiliation through the ‘My Club’ tab. You can find guidance on how to complete this here.

Key Officials
Clubs are required to state their key officials. You can find guidance on how to add your key officials here.

Named Manager or Coach
Every team must have a minimum of one Manager or Coach. This can be completed ahead of affiliation through the ‘Officials’ tab. You can find guidance here.

Insurance 

All clubs require Public Liability and Personal Accident cover. You can purchase your insurance cover via the Amateur FA through the affiliation process.

• Public Liability Insurance - this must be a minimum of £10 million pounds cover
• Personal Accident – each team must have separate personal accident cover.

Please download the Sportsguard Insurance brochure for more information and the different options of level of cover available. 

County Cups


Entry to the Amateur FA County Cups should be applied for through the affiliation process. Please note the deadline to sign up to a Men’s County Cup is 2nd August 2024. Applications after this date will not be guaranteed entry. 

The cost of entering all of our men’s cup competitions is £30.00 per entry. This is a small increase by £4 per entry as per the previous two seasons. This is due to the County aiming to improve the quality of cup finals with better hospitality provided to finalists and contingencies for bad weather.

The Capital Women’s Cup fee is remaining at £20.00. The deadline to enter the Capital Women’s Cup will be communicated separately.

Kit Regulations

If your club kits will have any sponsors logo’s or considering entering a sponsorship deal being printed on your clubs kits, please let us know beforehand so we are aware and can ensure your sponsors meets the FA standards on kit regulations. As per rule 12 A.4 the appearance on, or incorporation in, any item of Clothing, Football Boots or Other Equipment of any distasteful, threatening, abusive, indecent, insulting, discriminatory or otherwise ethically or morally offensive message, or any political or religious message, is prohibited. The Advertising of tobacco products is prohibited.

New Clubs

If you are a new club looking to affiliate for the 24/25 season, please visit our Setting up a Club page on the Amateur FA website.

We are here to help. If you have any questions or need some advice, please email affiliation@amateur-fa.com and a member of staff will be happy to assist you.