The Birmingham Ability Counts League is the only disability league within the county that provides regular competition for disability football clubs.
It is designed to give people with a disability the opportunity to play football. The Birmingham Ability Counts League operates on a variety of different levels allowing everyone involved to engage in sporting activity on a regular basis no matter what form of disability they have.
Meeting two Sundays a month at the Aston Villa Academy, the League's festivals have proved hugely popular for a number of years now.
The League also offers Wheelchair football, which is played at Stockland Green Leisure Centre in Erdington.
2009 welcomed a huge development for the league as a groundbreaking five year sponsorship deal was agreed with Thomas Vale Construction and their Supply Chain Members. This sponsorship will be vital in securing the future of the league, playing a pivotal role in helping it to develop dramatically over the coming few years. Speaking of their sponsorship, Paul Dockerill, Divisional Director for Thomas Vale Construction said:
"Being involved in the League has opened our eyes to focus on ability not disability. This is a great opportunity for us to help sustain the League for many years into the future".
Structure of the League:
- players able to cope physically, good levels of spatial awareness, excellent ability to understand tactics and good level of physical strength and fitness.
- players would be mobile, have spatial and tactical awareness, knowledge of the laws of the game and have a good level of fitness.
- players would have limited mobility, spatial awareness and fitness. There are a number of competitors that may not feel that they fit within the categories set out and are treated as individuals.