Discover the health benefits of walking football (TheFA)

Walking football can help people lose weight, help prevent loneliness and positively affect overall mental and physical health.

Walking football has become increasingly popular over the last few years – and for good reason. Aimed at adults over 50, walking football has social, mental and physical health benefits.

Kathy Broadfield, a 64 year old, plays for Birmingham Walking Football: “I think its’s a good idea, you get the camaraderie, the friendship and I lost a stone and a half. Going to the gym, I lost nothing, but walking football, pounds!”

Lorraine Robinson, 56, another player for Birmingham Walking Football, was reunited with Kathy – who happened to have been her teacher from school – through the game. Read more