Glenn Murray and Fara Williams MBE joined over 100 young aspiring footballers at Milton Keynes Dons yesterday to officially kick-off the 2022/23 season of the Utilita Kids and Girls Cup, two of the country’s biggest national football tournaments for junior schoolchildren. The finals of each competition take place at Wembley Stadium, giving players a once
England legend and former Reading Women’s footballer Fara Williams last week paid a surprise visit to Laurel Park FC in Reading as part of M&S Food’s Eat Well, Play Well campaign, looking to inspire grassroots players to make healthier choices with their food. Since the summer that saw England Senior Women’s team win the Euro,
A game-changing tournament with over 400,000 new opportunities created for girls and women to engage in grassroots legacy football activities UEFA and The FA have released the UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 post-tournament flash impact report, that outlines the key initial impacts measured to date post-tournament. The report, produced by Ernst and Young (EY), analyses data
In a hard-hitting and emotional film, Virginia talks in depth about her cancer diagnosis in the spring of 2020. This began with a series of headaches and neck pain which encouraged her to undergo a scan – doctors discovered it was a brain tumour. Virginia said: “They told me I would have to undergo 30 round
A recent study commissioned by Women in Sport and Sports Direct found that a shocking 67% of girls would like to participate in sport more regularly, but lack the opportunities or encouragement The legacy of the Euros brings hope though, with aspirations surging amongst ‘sporty’ girls and attitudes beginning to shift in boysSports Direct’s long-term
The opening two weekends of the Barclays Women’s Super League season has seen a number of records broken across the competition, including new individual and combined attendance records for the league. Arsenal are the new holders of the league attendance record after 47,367 fans witnessed their win over Tottenham Hotspur in the North London derby
The Barclays Women’s Super League match between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur has broken the attendance record for the league, with 47,367 spectators at the Emirates Stadium today, Saturday 24 September. The North London derby surpassed the previous record, which was set in November 2019 when 38,262 watched the same two teams in action at Tottenham
Over sixty UK sports men and women, presenters and journalists have signed EE’s open letter to policy makers lobbying for a more stringent Online Safety Bill The Letter has been co-signed by Glitch, the UK charity focused on ending online abuse and championing digital citizenship. Following this summer’s EE Hope United campaign to combat online
Durham Women FC have announced a new partnership with local renewables firm Clear Climate. The Peterlee-based business will see their logo feature on the front of our away shirt for the 2022/23 season. Our new away shirt, which is again produced by Hummel, will be worn for the first time at London City Lionesses on
The University of Essex and Birmingham City University have joined eight existing universities, which are partnered with England Football Learning, to offer support for women’s and girls’ football coaches at specialist Women’s High Performance Football Centres [WHPFC] across the country. The centres provide an educational and community-based hub to recruit, develop and deploy coaches and
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