CLUB AFFILIATION 2024-25

London FA will be opening their club affiliation window from Wednesday 5th June 2024. Club Affiliation will be available within the Club Portal instead of through the Whole Game System.

Requirements for all clubs

• Ensure all invoices from last season are paid.
• Ensure all player suspensions from last season have been assigned fixtures (unless the suspension is carrying over to next season).

Adult Club Requirements

• Check the Welfare Officer (Adult Teams) has completed the Player Welfare in Open Age Football Course.
• Check all named officials excluding the Team Secretary has a valid Player Welfare in Open Age Football Course and if the club has any U18s registered, each named official will also need to have an in-date DBS before the team is compliant for affiliating.

Youth Club Requirements

• Check all Coaches are listed correctly against the relevant team and have an in-date FA DBS and have completed the Safeguarding Children Course.
• Check the four main committee members (Secretary, Chairman, Treasurer and Club Welfare Officer) are correct and have an in-date Safeguarding for Committee Members Course (and that it hasn't expired)
• Check that the Club Welfare Officer also has the other mandatory qualifications (Safeguarding Children Course, Welfare Officers Course) as well as an in-date FA DBS

Safeguarding Requirements

Youth Teams

Open-Age Teams

Training and Support

The FA have produced several articles and assets to help explain the changes. These can be viewed here.

We have also put together video guidance on the affiliation process season which can be viewed at the bottom of the page.

If you are a new club looking to affiliate for the 24-25 season, please visit our Setting up a Club page.

Further Information

You can find more information in the London FA Club Affiliation 2024/25 Guidebook below.

In Club Portal individual teams can be added when they are ready rather than all teams in a club having to be added in one go. Once teams are submitted the system will produce an invoice for the amounts due for those teams.

Please note affiliation for a given team will not be completed until the relevant invoice is paid.

Insurance

All clubs are required to have Public Liability Insurance Cover and Personal Accident Insurance. Both insurances are available to be purchased during the affiliation process. This can be added for each team as they are affiliated. 

If you are purchasing insurance externally, this needs to be valid until 30th June 2025 with the minimum Indemnity Limit required as £10,000,000. Anything lower that this amount will not be accepted.

Download the Club Information Document for the London FA Insurance Scheme to learn more about insurance for your teams.

If you do have any questions or concerns, please contact Affiliations@LondonFA.com and a member of our team would be happy to help support.

** AFFILIATION NUMBERS ** - Please be aware that following changes to the affiliation process implemented from the start of the 2023/24 season, clubs no longer receive an affiliation number. Instead, affiliation is completed on a team-by-team basis with each team within a club now having its own individual affiliation status. If proof of affiliation is requested (for the purposes of tournament entry etc), we would suggest taking a screenshot of the Teams tab in Club Portal.

video guidance

Last year we put together a four-stage video guide of the affiliation process for 2023/24 season. This guidance still applies for 2024/25.

Watch now to get the support you need.