Over the next three years, the Football Association will get more than 3 million dollars from the premier league.
The new centres will get a total of 5.25m from the league over the next three years. There are 29 Regional Talent Clubs and 10 Advanced Coaching Centres that cater to 1,722 girls.
The plan is to create up to 70 ETCs across the country that are open for eight to 16-year-olds, aiming to offer high-quality coaching to 4,200 girls by the end of the 2023/24 season.
In 2020, the FA pledged to provide a well-signposted, inclusive and accessible club player pathway that supports talented girls and young women.
Kay Cossington, head of women's technical at the FA, said: "We have undertaken a lengthy and comprehensive review of the current pathway structure, and this has provided a clear future direction, based around five key areas of improvement."
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The new Emerging Talent Centres will be supported by the Premier League.
The FA and the Premier League are working together to provide funding for the new Emerging Talent Centres.
The centres will provide more opportunities for girls across the country to access enhanced coaching and will develop pathways within the professional and grassroots game, benefiting young players and clubs alike.
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The FA has identified five areas of improvement to its player pathway: better accessibility, more inclusivity, reducing the impact of early selection, more focused investment, and providing more appropriate challenges.
The clubs that will run the ETCs are affiliated to the top four tiers of the Women's Football Pyramid, Club Community Organisations linked to league and National League clubs, and County FAs and FA Women's High- Performance Centres.
Speaking at the launch of the partnership between the country's largest sports race equality charity and Sky Sports, the chief executive ofSporting Equals said it is important for football to consider the interests of South Asian women in the game.
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The Active Lives survey shows that South Asian women are the least physically active group in the country, and just a small percentage of players in the FA Women's Super League hail from the British South Asian community.
South Asian women are important in the game.
British South Asian representation in the WSL is not good enough at the moment. There are many South Asian women and girls who are playing football at a high standard and we need to bring them on board.
One of the key parts of this project is going to be research and insight, finding out where many South Asian women and girls are playing at the moment, and which clubs they are with.
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We know a lot of them because they have engaged with us, and that is going to be very important to this as well. We want to collect the data for the game and we need all of them on board.
Tracking those individuals and finding out where they are going next is the key to taking the data and putting it on a shelf. What have they done? Why did they stop? What were the challenges that stopped them from progressing through the game?
I think that is what we want to be working with the individuals, and the clubs themselves, and with football as a sector.
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