FIFA Football Development Operations Workshop

Beginning in 2022, following the publication of the Global Ecosystem Analysis – a report that investigated the global talent development ecosystem – FIFA’s Global Football Development Division, in collaboration with the FIFA MAs, set out to investigate....

The plan

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In a study of this nature, it is crucial to consider not only the structures and activities in place, but also the principal actors involved in the efforts to support players and other participants (such as coaches, referees and volunteers) in accessing...

The scope

Grassroot Festival - FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015 - 30-Oct, 2015

All 211 FIFA MAs were invited to participate in this analysis, with 185 completing all phases of the environment analysis process.

The process

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Building on the foundations of, and learnings from, the Global Ecosystem Analysis that focused on talent development, this new analysis, covering the much wider field of amateur football, involved collecting and studying data on global football...

The data

The sections presented below examine the methodology applied in the analysis and provide a detailed explanation of the process followed by the FIFA Global Football Development Division in conducting the study that led to the creation of this report.

Amateur football environment analysis

Analysis methodology