FAI urged to increase board size to 14 to meet gender-balance requirement

State funding, so critical to the FAI since the MOU bailout in January 2020, is at risk of being culled if bodies don’t comply with the gender balance decree

BRAINS TRUST: FAI chief executive Jonathan Hill, left, and FAI chairperson Roy Barrett before the UEFA EURO 2024 Championship qualifying group B match between France and Republic of Ireland at Parc des Princes in Paris, France. Pic: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

The FAI have been requested by way of rule change to increase their board size from 12 to 14 in order to facilitate compliance with the Government’s gender-balance requirements.

As it stands, the association only has four of the required five female directors ahead of their annual general meeting on October 21.