Tag: Womens Football

After decades of lacking a professional outlet for female footballers at home, Canada has finally launched its first independent professional women’s football league: the Northern Super League (NSL). Officially kicking off in April 2025, the NSL features six founding clubs—Montreal Roses FC, Vancouver Rise FC, AFC Toronto, Ottawa Rapid FC, Calgary Wild FC, and Halifax Tides FC—and aims to create a sustainable, business-focused model for growth.

Chelsea FC is making headlines as the club is able to report a positive balance sheet at the end of the financial year thanks to the sale of its women’s team to the club’s parent company. As a result, the west Londoners complied with the Premier League’s Financial Fair Play rules.

SGS Essen and Turbine Potsdam are the only all-women’s football clubs in the German Bundesliga. These clubs used to exist more often, but currently the big names from the men’s Bundesliga are striving for the top. How can Essen and Potsdam stay in the Bundesliga?

American businesswoman Michele Kang aims to change women’s football business for good, creating the first multi-club group in the game. At OL Féminin, Kang aims to fundamentally change the way of thinking about women’s football, and has pioneered a new business model.

Chelsea FC made major investments in the winter transfer window. The million mark fell for the first time with the transfer of Naomi Girma. We take a look at how the transfer sums have developed in recent years.