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Category Archives: Women’s Football
Gornal Athletic’s Libby Riese on academy life, injury setbacks, and being able to rap every Eminem song
Gornal Athletic’s Libby Riese started playing football at the age of five, before moving to Birmingham City Women’s Academy, then an injury to her ankle changed everything for her, but she is now captain of GA and led them to promotion last season.
Shifnal Town Ladies’ Olivia Lloyd on playing football from a young age, life at Wolves, and how she’s delivered five babies
Shifnal Town’s Olivia Lloyd started playing football when she was just six years old, before spending a bit of time at Wolves, then stopping football altogether due to studying and work commitments, but now she is back playing and has just signed for Shifnal Town ahead of the upcoming season.
A new era for Aston Villa Women: WSL fixtures set for Villa Park
Last month, Aston Villa Women announced that all 11 of their home WSL fixtures were to be played at Villa Park, this is a significant increase for the club as they only played five games there last season.
Revealed: Only 24.5% of directors of WSL and Championship clubs are women
In England’s top two women’s football leagues, only 24.5% of the club’s directors are women or identify themselves as women, according to an exclusive analysis of Companies House by myself.
Megan Rapinoe retires – One of the greatest players in US and women’s football history
On Saturday evening (Sunday morning UK time), two-time World Cup champion and women’s Ballon d’Or winner Megan Rapinoe played her last game of women’s football in the NWSL cup final for OL Reign.
First ever WSL sticker book will be ‘very successful’ – Mia Claydon
Women’s football editor and women’s football superfan Mia Claydon says the first-ever WSL sticker book being released by Panini later this year will be “very successful”.
Nike not selling England Women’s Goalkeeper shirt is “Disgraceful” – Fans Opinions
This year’s Women’s World Cup is arguably the biggest and best ever in it’s history, and on the back of becoming European Champions one year ago today, The Lionesses are doing well so far in the tournament. However, goalkeeper Mary Earps and many England fans are outraged as kit manufacturer Nike haven’t made the goalkeeper shirts available to purchase.
Research shows stark difference in price between attending a WSL game compared to PL game
On the back of The Lionesses winning the Euros at Wembley Stadium in the summer, we’ve seen many more people attending WSL games this season.
Average crowd attendances at WSL games up by over 200%
On the back of a successful home Euros in the summer, crowd attendances across the WSL have dramatically increased for the 2022/23 season already.
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