Faruk Adam

Ask most people which part of grassroots football is growing fastest right now, and few would guess correctly. It’s not…

Turn up to a grassroots match without a referee, and there’s no game. It sounds obvious. But across the UK,…

Pre-season is almost over. For most adult grassroots clubs across the country, competitive league football returns within days, not weeks.…

Ask most people to picture adult grassroots football, and they’ll think of muddy Sunday league pitches full of players in…

Every Sunday morning in East London, something happens that has no real equivalent anywhere else in world football. Across 82…

Ask almost any club secretary in adult grassroots football what keeps them up at night, and the answer rarely has…

The FA Trophy and FA Vase both opened their 2026/27 campaigns on Saturday 15 August, and the round threw up…

The FA Cup preliminary round played out on Saturday 22 August, with 136 ties across steps 5 to 8 of…

Today marked the start of the Adobe Women’s FA Cup for the 2026/27 season. Across the country, nearly 300 adult…

While most of the football world takes Mondays off, a small pocket of adult grassroots and semi-professional football carries on…