Summer soccer nationwide looming after tight FAI member ballot

FAI Director of Football Marc Canham and FAI Grassroots Director Ger McDermott at the FAI Football Pathways Plan that will see calendar football introduced. 

Summer soccer will be a feature from top to bottom of the Irish game by 2028 after the FAI General Assembly ratified a motion to change the season format by 57%.

Voting was always going to be tight on such a seismic sea change and the hybrid meeting at a Blanchardstown hotel and online attracted all but five of their 138-member assembly.