The Premier League has today announced it will fund the provision of Automated External Defibrillators (AED) at thousands of grassroots football clubs and facilities, aimed at helping save the life of someone experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest.

Working in partnership with the Football Foundation and The Football Association, the first phase of the Premier League Defibrillator Fund rollout will have AEDs provided to Football Foundation funded facilities which currently are without a life-saving device onsite.

In the second phase, grassroots clubs that own their facilities will be able to apply for funding for a defibrillator.

Together more than 2,000 sites will benefit from this investment, with the first 1,000 units delivered in time for the start of the 2021/22 season and the second batch expected in September.

Once installed, the AEDs will be accessible, if required, to an estimated 1.5million people who use these facilities per season.

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