Parent and Carer Guidance

​Parent and Carer Guidance

Making sure children and young people have a safe and enjoyable football experience.

Everyone involved in football should promote the highest-possible standards of behaviour, so we can pass our great game on in good shape to future generations.

This applies as much to parents/carers as anyone else. No doubt we’ve all heard – and perhaps seen – over-zealous parents behaving badly at children’s matches. Sometimes unwittingly, they can create a climate of intimidation that stops children wanting to play.

Ensuring parents/carers behave appropriately at youth team matches is codified into ‘Respect’, an ongoing FA drive to improve everyone’s standards of behaviour. In fact, there’s a code of conduct for parents/carers which you will be asked to sign up to if you have a child playing for a youth team.

The FA has produced a Grassroots Youth Football guide, which explains how we all play a part in making football fun!

Youth football guide