PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLERS' ASSOCIATION

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The 'Professional Footballers' Association' (PFA) is the association for professional footballers in the United Kingdom. It is the world's oldest professional sportsman's association and has 4,000 members.
==The Association Footballers' Union (1898)==
The first model of the PFA was the Association Footballers’ Union (‘AFU’) which was formed in Liverpool in February 1898 and, in its early days, had 250 members. The reason why the Union was formed in Liverpool was because there were significant members of that Union who were at the time associated with Everton.
The AFU was a progenitor of the PFA but did not last and whereas Charles Saer, the Blackburn Rovers player and school teacher, sought, unsuccessfully, to broach an agreement with the League before leaving office, frustrated, in December 1898, the Union dissolved itself in 1901.
==The Players' Union (1907)==
The second attempt at the unionisation of footballers took place on December 2, 1907 when Charlie Roberts and Billy Meredith (who had been involved in the AFU) convened the organisation of the Association of Football Players’ and Trainers’ Union (‘AFPTU’) (which the Press called ‘The Players’ Union’) at Manchester’s Imperial Hotel. This Union came about because the Football League had finally ratified the maximum wage in 1901 at £4.

Contents

Present Day Objectives

Past Chairmen

Past Secretaries

Management Committee

See also

References

External links

Present Day Objectives

In association with other football bodies they are the managing agents for the Football Scholarship Programme and the Football in the Community Programme.
They also choose which players will compete in the national 6 a-side indoor football competition called Masters Football.^[1]
It is a member of the Institute of Professional Sport and FIFPro - the confederation of international football players' unions. It is also a member of the Trades Union Congress. Its current chief executive is Gordon Taylor, a former player with Blackburn Rovers. Many of the key personnel within the PFA are also ex professionals, including Deputy Chief Executive Mick McGuire (ex-West Bromwich Albion), Assistant Chief Executives John Bramhall and Bobby Barnes. The PFA also have a financial arm, headed by ex-Aston Villa midfielder Des Bremner.

Past Chairmen

★ Jimmy Hill

★ Gordon Taylor

★ Brian Marwood

★ Derek Dougan

★ Garth Crooks

★ Barry Horne

Past Secretaries

★ Cliff Lloyd

★ Gordon Taylor

Management Committee

★ Chris Powell, Charlton Athletic (Chairman)

★ Clarke Carlisle, Watford

★ Neil Cutler, No Club

★ Gareth Griffiths, Rochdale

★ Marcus Hahnemann, Reading

★ Chris Hope, Rushden & Diamonds

★ Gary Neville, Manchester United

★ Ben Sedgemore, Canvey Island

★ David Weir, Rangers

★ David Wetherall, Bradford City

See also

★ PFA Players' Player of the Year

★ PFA Young Player of the Year

★ PFA Fans' Player of the Year

★ PFA Team of the Year

References

1. Masters Football: their role in the competition.


★ Wishart heads up PFA Scotland

★ 'stv' website 4 July 2007

★ History of the PFA

External links

★ Official site