Ensure a location helps you to maximize access, inclusion, safety, and a sense of belonging, whilst also allowing connection to vital services, partners and utilities.
Start with the introductory resource to build your foundation, then explore related tools and research from across the ecosystem.
This resource provides a Location Scorecard to help you assess a potential place to play site which includes key elements to consider and space to add other considerations that are specific to your community.

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Additional tools, research, and case studies that support participation, inclusion, and wellbeing for girls and women in soccer.
The story and insights behind developing 20 free-to-access futsal courts in schools and parks across Indiana.
Initiative to mobilize partners across a city, county or state, to advance play, including via coordinated development of place to play infrastructure.
Details of English football’s strategy to map soccer facilities needed across every local authority in the country and devise a plan to meet that need.
Entry point resource supporting people choosing to build a mini-pitch format to consider some of the key success factors.
Example Football Facilities Plan detailing how multiple partners plan to collaborate to the meet the need for places to play across a city.