Amateur Football Alliance

Amateur Football Alliance

Founded	May 1906 (as Amateur Football Defence Council) 7 July 1907 (as Amateur Football Association)
Headquarters	Unit 3, 7 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7SL
CEO	Jason Kilby
Website	www.amateur-fa.com

The Amateur Football Alliance is a county football association in England. It is unusual among county FAs in not serving a particular geographical area. It was founded in 1906 as the Amateur Football Defence Council, was briefly known as the Amateur Football Defence Federation, and was reformed as the Amateur Football Association in 1907, when The FA required all county associations to admit professional clubs. Its aim was, as the decline of amateurism at the highest levels of football set in, to protect and preserve the original amateur spirit. It prides itself on the skill and competitiveness of its leagues, and on its traditions of fair play and respect for opponents and match officials. Many leagues still maintain rules that require clubs to provide food and drink to their opponents and match officials after the match in a clubhouse or public house.