Leadership across the sporting industry is lacking diversity, more so than in any other industry in the UK, and this is very prevalent within Football.The typical recruitment channels are not effective in delivering leadership talent from BAME backgrounds.Football Clubs & their Associations should not just have diversity on the pitch and in their academies, but they should also have diversity in their executive management teams, and on their Board of Directors.This demands a change in the way Football Clubs & their Associations recruit for current & future leadership roles – a new talent pool of BAME candidates needs to be identified, interviewed and selected.BAME Sports Recruitment has been created to help engineer this change.