English football clubs who signed up to a charter to improve diversity in their organisations are failing across the board, new figures are set to show. On Friday the Football Association will publish the results of the second year of its leadership diversity code. It is expected to reveal that clubs have failed to hit voluntary targets in a number of areas, with a particular weakness in making change at the top of organisations. The FA said more than 50 clubs had signed up to the scheme a year ago, including every Premier League side, but while some progress has been made in increasing diversity among coaching staff, clubs could be set to fail in as many as six of the eight targets, showing no improvement on the code’s inaugural year. Disappointing results from clubs are set to be put into perspective by comparatively successful results from the organisational bodies that have signed up, including the EFL and Premier League, as well as the FA itself. The targets are broken into four groups, with two of those related to appointments in coaching. Signatories agree that 50% of coaching hires for women’s teams will be women and 15% of black, Asian or mixed heritage. In men’s teams, the coaching targets correspond to 25% of new hires being black, Asian or of mixed heritage, with the figure dropping to 10% for senior coaching hires. In team operations the figures are 15% black, Asian or mixed heritage and 30% women, the same proportion required of new senior leadership hires. Those within the game who supported the introduction of the code believe that forcing clubs to be transparent about their appointments will keep their actions under scrutiny. But the news will highlight how far football still has to go to make itself representative of the people who play and follow the game. Last week the Black Footballers Partnership released figures suggesting that only 1.6% of executive, leadership and ownership positions in the Premier League and EFL are held by black people. And whereas 43% of Premier League players are black, the same can be said of only 4.4% of managers across England’s top four divisions. QPR’s Les Ferdinand, a BFP member and the only black sporting director in the English game, said the leadership diversity code had “made no difference whatsoever” in helping black players get jobs in the game. Delroy Corinaldi, the executive director of the BFP, said: “An organisation like ours was set up because we knew there were gaps in the game that need to be filled if it’s to achieve what it wants to achieve. The game needs to work in partnership with organisations like ours, set up to give the FA a new lens for delivering meaningful change, because the time for gestures is over.”