Kick It Out Logs Record 1,744 Discrimination Reports — SkimNews
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- Kick It Out received a record 1,744 discrimination reports across professional football, grassroots, and online during the 2025/26 season — the first year of its five-year Football United strategy launched in September 2025.
- Her Game Too, The Frank Soo Foundation, and Football v Homophobia generated over 100 reports through new reporting channels, which Kick It Out says reflects greater community confidence rather than solely worsening culture.
- Professional football clubs published workforce diversity data for the first time under FA Rule N at the start of 2025/26, increasing visibility of leadership representation across the game.
- A Guinness 0.0 partnership took discrimination education into pubs, training more than 3,000 Greene King staff to recognize and respond to incidents; Kick It Out's wider education programmes reached over 11,000 people.
- Kick It Out collaborated with 20+ organizations on proposals to the Independent Football Regulator targeting board-level accountability and representation targets for club leadership.
- Samuel Okafor, Kick It Out's chief executive, said reporting partnerships are expected to expand in 2026/27 alongside expanded grassroots anti-discrimination education and Fan Education delivery.
Why it matters: English football logged a record 1,744 discrimination reports in 2025/26, with Kick It Out framing the surge as a mix of rising anti-immigrant language and improved community trust in new reporting channels. New FA Rule N diversity disclosures and Football United's five-year targets give clubs and the Independent Football Regulator concrete data to act on leadership representation gaps.
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