Media Deals Agreed

Media deals for the coming season were announced today, £658 million was shared between the ten federations. For the first time in recent memory the XEFA was not able to secure the best deal for their members, it was the CWA who secured the best deal (worth 1.12m per club) with the PFA second with a deal worth 1.13m per club.

Perhaps alarmingly, membership of the UFFA has dropped 12% from 709 to only 619 member clubs, leading to the closure of the Super Evening Football Association following last season's closure of the Early Evening Football Association. However, the percentage of inactive clubs in the union remains static at 26% of overall membership.

The only federation to see a growth in membership (discounting the merger between the SEFA and PFA) was the SFA, rising from 37 to 42 members. The WCA remained stable at 39 member clubs but every other federation saw a reduction in membership, with the XFA worst affected -- suffering a 20% drop in membership compared to last season.

Federation	Members	Media Deal	Per Club
XEFA	73 (-3)	£81m	£1.11m (-0.02)
PFA	75 (+20)	£84.8m	£1.13m (-0.02)
NFA	20 (-4)	£21.8m	£1.09m (0)
AEFA	74 (-6)	£81.4m	£1.1m (+0.02)
MLFA	26 (-6)	£28.6m	£1.1m (+0.02)
XFA	40 (-10)	£42.4m	£1.06m (+0.01)
CWA	70 (-2)	£78.4m	£1.12m (+0.04)
SFA	42 (+5)	£44.1m	£1.05m (+0.02)
CIFA	160 (-27)	£157.4m	£0.98m (-0.02)
WCA	39 (0)	£38.1m	£0.98m (+0.01)
TOTAL	619 (-90)	£658m	£1.06m (+0.04)