Football Victoria allows regional female teams into junior premier competition

Women’s HIL will provide financial stability to junior players and attract youth to hockey: Savita Punia

Hoping to continue playing till the Los Angeles Olympics 2028, India’s seasoned goalkeeper Savita Punia feels the introduction of Women’s Hockey India League will provide financial stability, especially to junior players and attract more youngsters to the sport. “Every player wants financial stability, can buy good equipment, make their family stress-free, help their family when they need. Savita will be …

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1 week, 4 days ago

A-League Women losing stars to 'unsustainable' part-time competition

ABC

Over the weekend, Melbourne Victory star Beattie Goad announced her retirement from football at just 27, which comes as players say the part-time nature of the competition is unsustainable long-term. Women footballers sound urgent call for full-time ALW Photo shows Sydney FC A-League Women players celebrate with the championship trophy. If you suddenly give players resources and the time that …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Women’s Champions League 2024-25: Chelsea maintains perfect record after beating Real Madrid 2-1

The Hindu

United States striker Catarina Macario entered as a halftime substitute and converted two penalties for Chelsea in a 2-1 win over Real Madrid that helped the English club finish top of its Women’s Champions League group with a 100 per cent record on Tuesday. Madrid was already sure of qualifying for the quarterfinals along with Chelsea but needed a win …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Women’s Champions League to wrap up group stage that highlights a growing imbalance in European game

Associated Press

The competitive imbalance in women’s club soccer in Europe will be underscored this week in the final round of Champions League group-stage matches where little is on the line because of the dominance of the continent’s top teams. The eight teams advancing to the quarterfinals have already secured their spots with one round remaining: Lyon and Wolfsburg from Group A; …

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1 month ago

U.S. women’s soccer team set to face Brazil at SoFi Stadium

LA Times

SoFi Stadium in Inglewood is set to play host to an international friendly match between the U.S. women’s national soccer team and Brazil in April. The U.S. women’s soccer team will meet Brazil at SoFi Stadium in an April friendly that will be the first women’s professional sporting event in the four-year-old stadium. “To play the first-ever women’s professional match …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Exmouth looks to Mim Strom as women's Aussie Rules struggles to get a kick

ABC

West Australian footballer Mim Strom has staged a career-best campaign for Fremantle's AFL Women's side this year. "In the city, you wouldn't have to travel multiple hours to play a game of footy … it's really a whole weekend event when you're in Exmouth," local player Sophie Ayres said. Children are only born at the local health service in emergency …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Women’s pro soccer is thriving in Mexico seven years after top league started

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexican striker Charlyn Corral packed up for Spain in 2015 because her home country didn’t have a professional league. “I started playing with my cousins, and from five to 12 years old I played just with boys,” says Stephany Mayor, who has played in two Women’s World Cups for Mexico. “People used to tell me, ‘Don’t play …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

England to face Spain at Wembley in rematch of Women’s World Cup final

The Independent

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Women’s Champions League 2024-25: Manchester City, Arsenal and Bayern Munich advance to quarterfinals

The Hindu

Arsenal, Manchester City and Bayern Munich all advanced to the Women’s Champions League quarterfinals with two games to spare on Thursday. Juventus seemed to learn a lesson from its 4-0 loss to Arsenal last week as its defense held firm till Hurtig’s arrival. Nazareth’s double was followed by Lopez hitting the third with a shot high into the net for …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Matildas to play USA, Japan, Colombia at SheBelieves Cup in February

ABC

The next Matildas coach could experience a baptism of fire in games against Japan, the United States and Colombia in Australia's debut at the SheBelieves Cup. The Matildas lost 2-1 to the US Women's National Team to officially end their Paris Olympics campaign earlier this year, but will hope mercurial skipper Kerr is back playing by their next clash, as …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

U.S. Soccer announces landmark $30 million donation for women’s programme

The Hindu

Women’s football mogul Michele Kang will gift $30 million to U.S. Soccer, the sport’s national governing body said on Tuesday, the largest donation ever directed for the organisation’s girls and women’s programmes. “Michele Kang’s gift will transform soccer for women and girls in the United States,” U.S. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone said in a statement. “It will impact generations …

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2 months, 1 week ago

As the AFLW goes through growing pains, one of its champion players shares ways the league could be improved

ABC

When North Melbourne AFLW captain Emma Kearney was growing up in country Victoria, she didn't have a choice but to play sport. "When I first started playing, there's no way that I ever thought that I would be an AFL player," Kearney said. "He realised that it's actually the lighter ball that's doing it," Kearney said, adding that she'd love …

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2 months, 1 week ago

PWHL preparing for expansion as early as 2025-26 season, could add up to 2 teams

New York Times

The Professional Women’s Hockey League is preparing to expand beyond its six existing markets, potentially as early as the 2025-26 season. “It’s just the normal progression for the growth of our league in our sport.” GO DEEPER PWHL releases full 90-game schedule for 2024-25 season Planning for potential expansion at this stage in the league’s existence — its second season …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

‘How do we get exposure?’: Female coaches face a battle to reach the top in women’s rugby

The Telegraph

Katy Daley-Mclean does not mince her words. “I still think it’s really hard for female coaches in Premiership Women’s Rugby,” she says. As one of the few members of England’s 2014 World Cup-winning squad who progressed into coaching, the Sale Sharks women’s performance lead knows better than most. Then Giselle Mather, one of the most esteemed coaches in the female …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Female football pioneers ‘so proud’ if Wales reach Euro 2025 – Gloria O’Connell

The Independent

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Women's football team claim they are victims of 'transphobic violence' after rival team's local councillor claimed they fielded 'two bearded guys who consider themselves women'

Daily Mail

Catalonian football is in uproar after two transgender players reportedly helped their team win a women's match, sparking backlash from a councillor and a subsequent row. Alex Alcaide Llanos and Nil Alcon Labella play for CE Europa B in a Catalan women's league and are still registered as female while undergoing medical transitions and are barred from men's football. Debate …

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3 months, 1 week ago

AFC Champions League Women's Group Stage: A High-Stakes Showdown in Asia

Associated Press

The AFC Champions League's women's tournament has launched, featuring 12 teams divided into three groups of four. The Urawa Red Diamond Ladies will kick off the competition against India's Odisha, while Melbourne City will face Iran's Bam Khatoon in the opening match. The tournament offers a chance for Asian women's soccer to gain recognition on the international stage, with potential …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Women's soccer on a high as new Asian Champions League launches

New Indian Express

Women’s soccer is on a high in Asia in the wake of some World Cup performances that captivated nations, raising expectations for the new AFC Champions League. Now the continental club championship has been revamped and the group stage of the Women’s Asian Champions League launches this week with the Urawa Red Diamond Ladies flying the flag for Japan. The …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Is football messing up women’s basketball in Malappuram?

The Hindu

: The rise of women’s football, and to some extent cricket, appears to have hit basketball in Malappuram. For the second year in a row, Malappuram District could not field a team in the Kerala State senior basketball championship which begins here on Tuesday. “Our girls are mostly juniors and school girls, they played in the junior and sub-junior championships …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Women’s and girls’ football sees record growth in historic four year period for the game

The Independent

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Chelsea begin their quest for sixth straight WSL title at dawn of new era

The Independent

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Lauren Hemp says new Man City team-mate Vivianne Miedema has already settled in

The Independent

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4 months ago

Demi Stokes explains why she swapped Champions League for Championship

The Independent

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Lynda stars in Odisha FC’s win in AFC Women’s Champions League preliminary stage

The Hindu

Lynda Kom scored a brace in a dominating 4-1 victory for Odisha FC over Singapore’s Lion City Sailors. This was the club’s first foray on the continental stage as it aims to qualify into the AFC Women’s Champions League group stage. Lion City Sailors kept trying but OFC’s newly recruited Ibhrahim Maryam was solid at center back. The winner of …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

New WSL owners target success of ‘unprecedented levels’ in women’s football after separation from FA

The Independent

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Team GB targeting men’s football team at LA 2028 Olympics

The Independent

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5 months ago

U.S. women's soccer, reinvigorated by a trio of stars, will play for Olympic gold

NPR

U.S. women's soccer, reinvigorated by a trio of stars, will play for Olympic gold toggle caption Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Before then, the trio of stars leading the U.S. women's national soccer team has a more pressing matter to deal with: Saturday's Olympic final against Brazil, in which …

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5 months, 1 week ago

U.S. women’s soccer embracing a ‘growth mindset’ amid renewed hopes of Paris gold

LA Times

Sophia Smith fires a shot during the U.S. women’s soccer team’s win over Australia at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday. And the difference, captain Lindsey Horan said, is new coach Emma Hayes, who was hired to replace Vlatko Andonovski after the World Cup debacle but was delayed in officially assuming the job until May, when her club season at Chelsea …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Pushing the ball forward

China Daily

Infinite, an amateur women's football team based in Beijing, organized an international women's football tournament in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on July 6. Organized by Infinite, an amateur women's soccer team based in Beijing, the tournament attracted 16 teams with players from more than 12 countries. "This marks the first instance of a Chinese amateur soccer team organizing an international tournament …

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7 months ago

Rise in global transfers and fees demonstrate increasing options for women in soccer

Associated Press

One of the most striking signs of the global rise of women’s soccer is the growing international transfer market and the fees club teams are shelling out for players. Case in point was the record transfer fee of $788,000 paid by National Women’s Soccer League expansion team Bay FC for Zambian forward Racheal Kundananji this year. While the numbers reflect …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Why the Women’s Champions League final is not what you might think

The Independent

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Why the best team in the world is only just getting started

The Independent

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Vicky Losada believes grassroots projects ‘gives girls the chance to fall in love with football’

The Independent

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Emma Hayes aims to replicate her Chelsea success with U.S. women’s soccer

LA Times

A conversation with her father helped persuade Emma Hayes to leave Chelsea and pursue the challenge of revitalizing the U.S. women’s national team. So much so that when Hayes took the head coaching job with the Chelsea women’s team that same summer, he urged her to remake the English game in the U.S. model. — Emma Hayes, new U.S. women’s …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Young women in Rio favela hope to overcome poverty and violence to play in Women’s World Cup in 2027

Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — A 20-minute drive separates the historic Maracana Stadium from the Complexo do Alemao, the biggest complex of favelas in Rio de Janeiro and one of the most impoverished and violent. Agatha strikes a ball during a soccer training session run by the Bola de Ouro social program, at the Complexo da Alemao favela in Rio de …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Chelsea pip Man City to Women's Super League title

The Telegraph

.and welcome to our live blog of the final day of the Women’s Super League season. Can Chelsea seal a remarkable fifth straight title to give Emma Hayes the perfect send off in her final game in charge of the London club? Gareth Taylor’s side arguably have an easier fixture away at seventh-placed Aston Villa but face a daunting task …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Parents blast FA transgender policy that allows boys to play ‘girls-only’ football tournaments

The Telegraph

Organisers of “girls only” football tournaments have adopted a Football Association transgender policy that allows boys who identify as female to play. Available online, those rules also state: “The London Youth Games Girls Football competition will follow the Football Association Policy on Trans People in Football.” A link to that policy contained within the text was broken on Thursday. Considering …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

FIFA meets with women’s soccer decisions, anti-racism pledge and retreat from key reforms on agenda

Associated Press

FIFA’s gravest crisis erupted with police raids at its annual meeting in 2015 and nine years later international soccer’s 211 member federations gather this week in Thailand with some of the resulting anti-corruption reforms now in retreat. During three days of meetings starting Wednesday in Bangkok, international soccer’s governance standards are set to distract from significant decisions in women’s soccer …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

PSG star Tabitha Chawinga of Malawi overcomes obstacles en route to Champions League success

Associated Press

Tabitha Chawinga wasn’t always a prolific scorer. Chawinga — whose younger sister Temwa is an emerging star for the NWSL’s Kansas City Current — recalled playing soccer with the boys in her village and using balls made of plastic and paper. until I leave my parents’ house to go to the city to start playing football with the girls.” Chawinga …

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9 months ago

Lo’eau LaBonta Is Leveling Up

Huff Post

“We had all female pilots flying over us in fighter jets. That was the moment when I finally let it all sink in and I got absolute chills,” says Kansas City Current midfielder Lo’eau LaBonta on a video call, describing the first game of the season on March 16. “I am just a very small piece of this huge picture, …

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9 months ago

The Matildas have inspired record registrations for women in football, but where will clubs put them?

ABC

With the 2024 winter football season kicking off this weekend, clubs across Australia have experienced a record influx of registrations in the afterglow of last year's FIFA Women's World Cup. Increasing the participation of women and girls in football was a major pillar of Football Australia's "Legacy 23" program, in addition to ticking several boxes in the federal and state …

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9 months, 1 week ago

U.S.-Canada world championship final is no guarantee as competitive gap in women’s hockey closes

Associated Press

Fond as Hilary Knight is of the fierce women’s hockey rivalry between the United States and Canada, the 34-year-old has watched her sport’s international growth enough to realize the decades-long era of North American dominance might finally be coming to close. “And that’s why you really have to take this tournament one game at a time because nothing’s guaranteed.” There’s …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Amsterdam could get a new all-women pro football club

NL Times

Plans are underway to start a new professional football club in Amsterdam that is only for women. Currently, women are still in the shadow of the men’s teams at the regular clubs.” While Visser did not mention it specifically, the atmosphere at Ajax has been under scrutiny due to its treatment of female employees and football players ever since allegations …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Barcelona and Lyon headline Women’s Champions League quarterfinals. Hayes’ Chelsea targets quadruple

Associated Press

The Women’s Champions League resumes this week with the lineup for the quarterfinals including reigning champion Barcelona, record eight-time champion Lyon, quadruple-chasing Chelsea and two newcomers to this stage in Benfica and Brann. It’s Ajax vs. Chelsea and Benfica vs. Lyon on Tuesday, and Häcken vs. Paris Saint-Germain and Brann vs. Barcelona on Wednesday. CHELSEA’S QUADRUPLE BID Emma Hayes’ final …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

London Irish in advanced talks over takeover and eye 2025 return to Championship

The Telegraph

“For example, I believe it’s necessary that we concentrate on producing players for the English youth national teams and mould players for the future. “We also want to make sure we have a great relationship with London Irish’s amateur club, and to have a pathway together where we can bring through talent.” London Irish filed for administration last June following …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

W Champions Cup and Women’s Club World Cup: ‘Incredible’ innovation or too many games?

New York Times

This August, the best women’s club teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean will start CONCACAF’s inaugural W Champions Cup, the federation’s newest regional competition that will culminate with the crowning of a champion the following summer. CONCACAF president and FIFA vice president Victor Montagliani said his federation was “focused on creating an enhanced calendar of national team …

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10 months ago

Rebecca Welch, the rise of female referees and one final barrier left to break

The Independent

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10 months ago

A-League Women players urge APL to create full-time competition amid Women's World Cup boom

ABC

In short: A-League Women players have sounded an urgent call for a full-time competition as part of the World Cup legacy. A-League Women players have sounded an urgent call for a full-time competition as part of the World Cup legacy. Players will work with their union to push league administrators to make faster changes The A-League Women becoming a full-time …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Why USL Super League’s Amanda Vandervort is aiming to change women’s soccer

New York Times

Surrounded by framed photos of sporting moments and business articles about herself, Amanda Vandervort seemed genuinely puzzled that anyone would want to know about her. Vandervort was sitting in her office in Tampa, Fla. at United Soccer Leagues headquarters, where she is president of USL’s freshly-minted Division One entry into the professional women’s soccer landscape, the Super League. GO DEEPER …

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