Non-black players were 50% more likely to get into management than black players over a 30-year period, according to research commissioned by the Black Footballers Partnership (BFP).<\/span><\/p>\n The report by three academics looked at off-the-pitch careers of around 3,500 former footballers who played in the Premier League or Championship between 1990 and 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n It found that despite black players making up 25% of Uefa-issued coaching qualifications, in 2022 and 2023, they only accounted for 4% of all managerial roles.<\/span><\/p>\n Delroy Corinaldi, executive director of BFP, said: “A career in football management often looks like a game of Snakes and Ladders; but for black former players, it’s pretty much all snakes and no ladders”.<\/span><\/p>\n The BFP is an organisation of black present and former players.<\/span><\/p>\n The report summarised that black former players get fewer chances at management, get promoted more slowly, their progress stalls sooner and they get fired quicker than their non-black counterparts – none of which is related to performance. <\/span><\/p>\n It also made a number of points, including:<\/span><\/p>\n Of the 3,500 players in the research, 73% of the black players played in the Premier League with an average 62 appearances per player, while 62% of the non-black players appeared in the top-flight, with an average of 49 appearances.<\/span><\/p>\n “The findings are unbelievably stark,” Corinaldi told the PA news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n “The footballers have become the lost generation off the pitch, having become the stars on it.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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