Welcome to the website of the Professional Players Federation, the national organisation for the Player Associations in the United Kingdom. There are over 17,500 professional sportsmen and women in Britain and the PPF is dedicated to promoting, protecting and developing their collective interests. We have been working for the players since our establishment in 1991.
The PPF currently has twelve Player Associations in membership who are responsible for setting our priorities. We focus on cross-sport issues that affect all the members such as match fixing, Diversity & Inclusion, career transition, mental health and anti-doping.
You will find information on a number of research and education projects we have undertaken to help our members as well as a range of resources available to help individual players. We also provide details of our various Committees which provide forums for our Player Associations to exchange ideas, share best practice and agree the organisation’s goals.
If you have any queries relating to our work or the work of our members, please get in touch.
The latest Staff Spotlight is with former Ospreys forward Lloyd Ashley who joined the WRPA as their Mental Health & Wellbeing Lead and combines this with his PDM role at Ospreys.
Professional women’s cricketers in England and Wales are overwhelming positive about the transition into Professional Counties, after the PCA visited all eight of the women’s Tier 1 Professional Counties ahead of the new season.
JETS has announced that its General Manager Lisa Delany is to step down from her role in September. She joined JETS in 2002 and under her leadership JETS has helped over 1,200 jockeys with career development.
The PPF is pleased renew its partnership with Pro Sport Wealth. Through their team of Chartered Financial Planners who are also former professional sportspeople, Pro Sport Wealth provides a bespoke, specialist service to professional sportspeople guiding them on the path to long term financial security.
The WCA has released its report: Protecting History, Embracing Change. A Unified Coherent Global Future. The Report is the culmination of a six month review of cricket’s global structure with contributions from the PCA President and former England captain Eoin Morgan, alongside Chief Executive Daryl Mitchell, PCA Vice Chair and former England captain Heather Knight and former England white-ball captain Jos Buttler.
Following the announcement of the Men’s Professional Game Partnership at the start of the season, the RPAY, Restart (the Players Charity), Premiership Rugby and the RFU are pleased to announce that the Elite Player Support Fund has been officially launched.
A new research study by the PFA is investigating the prevalence of neurodiversity in current professional players in England to help establish a better understanding of their experiences in elite football.
The PCA has released a groundbreaking Women’s Impact Report ‘Accelerating Action for Players’ at an event to celebrate International Women’s Day, which is marked on Saturday 8 March.
The PFA has welcomed proposed changes to the Football Governance Bill which will see a new Independent Football Regulator (IFR) directed to co-operate and engage with players.
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