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Media Rights and Broadcasting Strategies for Women’s Football

Media rights values vary dramatically across leagues in women’s football, with huge differences even among Europe’s top competitions. The Women’s Super League (WSL) leads the continent, with a deal worth 15 million euros per season, with the deal with Sky and the BBC...

Wasserman Acquires Unik Sports Management to Expand Global Women’s Football Platform

As part of the transaction, Unik founder and chief executive Carlota Planas will join Wasserman as vice president of global women’s football. A licensed FIFA agent, Planas will remain based in Barcelona and report to Richard Motzkin, Wasserman’s executive vice...

Turning Club Academies into Business Assets

To build a solid women’s football movement, the first step is to create territorial synergiesbetween clubs: developing talent, giving young girls the chance to play without prejudice orobstacles, and laying the foundations on which the game can grow. In Italy, this...

FC Bayern Secures New 15,000-Seat Home for Women’s Team

A Huge Upgrade for Bayern Women FC Bayern Women are moving from the Bayern Campus, which has a limited 2,500-seat capacity, to Unterhaching’s Sportpark, offering 15,000 seats. This new venue provides significantly improved infrastructure for Bundesliga and European...

The Growing Divide in Women’s Football: New FIFPRO Report Reveals Two-Speed Player Workloads

Uneven Match Access Across Leagues According to the Precarious Workload: Professional Women’s Football report, league structure and access to international competitions significantly influence how much game time players receive. For the first time since FIFPRO began...

NWSL to Vote on New Salary Rule to Keep Stars Like Trinity Rodman

The move is driven largely by efforts to keep Washington Spirit forward Trinity Rodman, whose contract expires in December and who has drawn multimillion-dollar offers from Europe. How the New Mechanism Would Work The proposal would give every team a set amount of...

Women’s Bundesliga Clubs Elect Their First League President After Forming Independent Association

The newly formed association, Women’s Bundesliga FBL e. V., will be headed by Katharina Kiel of Eintracht Frankfurt, who was unanimously selected as the league’s inaugural president. Veronica Saß (FC Bayern Munich) and Florian Zeutschler (SGS Essen) will serve as vice...

Women’s Bundesliga Clubs Break Away: New League Association Formed Without the DFB

The press releases sent out discreetly by the Women’s Bundesliga teams early Thursday afternoon contained explosive news: the Frauen-Bundesliga FBL e.V. will be officially founded on December 10 at Frankfurt Arena, but initially without any involvement from the DFB....

Kang Women’s Institute Launches to Transform the Future of Women’s Soccer in the U.S.

The institute is being established through substantial investments from Michele Kang - billionaire business leader and owner of the Washington Spirit, London City Lionesses, and OL Lyon - whose growing influence has helped accelerate the professionalization of women’s...

How Top Clubs Are Monetizing the Women’s Game

For years, women’s football was written off as a passing fad. That idea is now firmly obsolete. The women’s game has become both a significant force and a clear indicator of where the sport is headed. “The future is women,” FIFA president Gianni Infantino said during...

FIFA’s Player Impact Programme: How Women Footballers Are Driving Global Social Change

The three-month programme provides personalised coaching and expert support, allowing participants to design and execute their own community-focused projects. Each initiative is shaped by the players’ personal journeys, addressing causes such as expanding girls’...

KNVB and IMG Sign Global Media Rights Deal for Women’s Football

Photocredit: Imago Images/ Eibner. This partnership marks a turning point for Dutch women’s football, as IMG will take on the responsibility of representing and distributing media rights for the Eurojackpot Vrouwen Eredivisie, the Eurojackpot KNVB Cup (men’s), and the...