The agency will be advising it on governance issues involving young people.
Street League, described by Fifa as "the strongest Development through Football organisation currently operating in the UK", runs a structured football and education programme that helps build confidence, improve health, extend social networks and develop skills towards long-term education, employment and independence.
Players come from a range of disadvantaged backgrounds, including homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, displacement, unemployment, crime, learning difficulties and mental health.
The charity has also appointed Matt Stevenson-Dodd as its new chief executive. He will be attending the Football for Hope Festival 2010, an event being held alongside the Fifa World Cup Finals in Johannesburg.
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