Champions League Qualifying – Update

IT WAS an eventful final qualifying round in the UEFA Women’s Champions League with all the British and Irish sides acquitting themselves well...

UEFA Women’s Champions League Qualifying – British & Irish sides enter final round

TONIGHT 20 matches will be played across Europe to conclude the qualifying round of the UEFA Women’s Champions League with plenty of British and Irish involvement...

Focus on Africa

IT'S BEEN a busy soccer week in Africa, what with the COSAFA championships and Nigeria's bid to host the Under-20 World Cup next year. Here's a recap...

Everything you’re streaming of…

KELLY SIMMONS, the Football Association’s Director of the Women’s Professional Game, has announced that the FA is launching an online streaming platform dedicated to women’s football from the start of the forthcoming 2019-20 season...

FIFA ‘The Best’ Player Nominees 2019

FIFA HAS released its list of nominees for ‘The Best’ Player of the Year Award. Four members of the American Women’s World Cup winning squad have been nominated, two English players, two French, two Norwegian, one Dutch and one Australian...

UEFA Women’s Under-19 Championship Final: France 2-1 Germany

FRANCE edged a tight encounter at St Mirren Park to record their fifth U-19 championship title. Maëlle Lakrar’s deft flick from a Julie Dufour corner was the difference, but it could have so easily swung the other way had a couple of key moments gone the Germans’ way…

The good, the bad and the clueless…

LOOKING at the rapidly developing world of women’s football by bringing you some of the good new stories doing the rounds and, occasionally, offering tales you have to squint at between your fingers, or view from an even safer place, behind the sofa perhaps…

After the Lady Mayoress’s Show…

TWO WEEKS is a long time in professional sport, or so it seems. Megan Rapinoe et al held aloft the Women’s World Cup trophy in France on July 7th, set it down on a first-class plane seat (probably) and began their cross-nation ‘celebrate-a-thon’, complete with multiple media commitments to address pay equality, gay rights and Mesut Ozil’s hair style. Meanwhile, the world kept spinning, and a whole host of British sporting successes lined up to push Women’s football back towards the shadows...

FIFA Women’s World Cup Day 31:

THE USA successfully defended their world crown, beating the Netherlands in Lyon to secure their fourth FIFA Women’s World Cup title. Golden Ball and Golden Boot Winner, Megan Rapinoe, gave Team USA the lead from the penalty spot after VAR correctly adjudged that Stefanie van der Gragt had fouled Alex Morgan. Bronze Boot winner Rose Lavelle put the result beyond doubt with a left-footed strike from the edge of the box...

FIFA Women’s World Cup Day 30:

SWEDEN took the bronze medal match in Nice, despatching England with a ruthless opening half hour in which they struck twice; then doggedly defending out the remainder of the game. Kosovare Asllani got the scoring under way on 11 minutes driving past Carly Telford following a poor defensive clearance. Sofia Jakobsson then added a second, cutting in from the left and curling past the England keeper. Fran Kirby halved the deficit on 31 minutes, and Ellen White had a goal ruled out by VAR for handball shortly after...