Brighton & Hove Albion

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We celebrate and value the diversity brought by staff, applicants, supporters, participants on community programmes, and customers and believe we benefits from engaging with everyone from a variety of backgrounds, thus allowing us to meet the needs of a diverse population within a multi-cultural society. We share and are committed to the standards, values, and expectations set by the Premier League, the Football Association, the EFL, and Kick it Out, who each assert that football is for everyone and that it belongs to, and should be enjoyed by anyone who wants to participate in it, whether as a player, official, staff member or spectator.

We vow to treat everyone with respect and dignity and seek to provide a positive environment for all of our stakeholders, free from discrimination, harassment, victimisation or abuse. Our aim is to create a positive, inclusive ethos that will work towards the elimination of discrimination, harassment, victimisation, and abuse whether overt or covert.

Our aim is to confront and eliminate discrimination whether by reason of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief. These are known as ‘protected characteristics’ under the Equality Act 2010.

Did you know?

Pride 2022 - We were the main headline sponsor
Proud Seagulls became an official supporters club at the beginning of the 2022/23 season
We hosted an Iftar Meal for Ramadan, becoming one of first Premier League clubs to do this
We began working with Sign Live in April 2023, providing BSL interpreters for deaf supporters when speaking to teams at the club such as supporters services and the 1901 Club
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion staff networks were setup in August 2022 including a Women's network and LGBTQ network
Our academy boys take on the Girls Under-18s in a match for International Women's Day
Menopause training for all managers within the club was launched in August 2022
We have decreased our gender pay gap (when you exclude first team players) to 11% – and women are represented proportionally in all four pay quartiles of the club as well as on our executive committee

If you'd like to be part of our journey, please click here for our current vacancies.

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#AlbionAllies

At Brighton & Hove Albion and Brighton & Hove Albion Foundation, we want everyone to feel at home. The Albion is for everyone, regardless of their background, identity, or circumstance.

Sometimes, there are people who need our help and support to stand up in the face of hate. So, to mark the Rainbow Laces campaign, we want you to become an Albion Ally; to make a pledge and show support to the LGBTQ+ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and others in this community). Even small acts of solidarity can make all the difference.

We believe by working together and sticking up for each other, we make our community a better and fairer place.

It’s time for you to become an Albion Ally. It's time to make your pledge:

Club Equality Policy

Read our Equality Policy here.

Report an Incident

If you’ve seen discrimination in football – online or at a grassroots, non-league or professional game – don’t turn away. Report it to Kick It Out here, so we can get the right people involved and support everyone affected.