Football

Football

Football participation overview

Football is the most popular team sport for women and is in the top ten across all sports for female participation.

Female football is the third largest in terms of participation in team sports, beaten only by men’s football and men’s cricket.

Around 151,000 women play football at least once a week.

Football is twice as popular with BME women as White women. Two in ten female footballers are from a BME group, which is almost twice the proportion in the general population.

Key links:

The FA

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About WSFF

The Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) is the UK charity that campaigns to make physical activity an everyday part of life for women and girls. Our aim is to create a nation of active women.

To make being active more attractive for women and girls we do three things:

Help - we help sport and fitness organisations understand what women want.
Inspire - we inspire women to take part.
Persuade - we campaign to persuade policy makers that having more active women will benefit all of us.