AFC Grassroots Panel charts continuous progress in fourth meeting

The panel began the meeting by confirming the grassroots in Asia is viewed as ‘football for all’, comprising personal, health, sporting and social development for non-elite and non-professional football across all ages, before a football player’s pathway was analysed, to further understand the link of grassroots efforts and the elite game of football academies

The panel then assess the AFC Grassroots Charter by appointing panel members to monitor and evaluate the process.

This AFC grassroots endorsement programme is offered at three levels - bronze, silver and gold.

At the entry level (bronze), the emphasis is on mass participation which Macau, Sri Lanka and Vietnam have applied for.

China, Lebanon, Mongolia and Singapore have applied for the silver level, which focuses on increased levels of quality.

At the gold level - applied by Australia and Japan -  the endorsed members will set the benchmark for grassroots development.