Women’s football including the Women’s Super League (WSL) may not survive the global health situation Claret and Hugh have been told.
The FA are on the verge of abandoning the WSL season – the truth of the matter being the league makes no money.
The Football Association are not willing to pay for testing for Women’s football to continue and the clubs themselves cannot afford to pay for testing either.
There doesn’t seem a will to continue we have been told by one insider close to the women’s game.
The Women’s Super League is largely funded by the richer men’s teams but this funding could soon dry up as a financial crisis engulfs football in general around the globe.
West Ham invests in excess of £1.5m per year to fund their women’s team run by owner’s son Jack Sullivan but whether they can continue to do that next season remains to be seen.
Women’s professional football in the UK is not financially sustainable and without generous funding from parent men clubs, funded by TV and match day revenue, they will simply cease to exist.
agree, this is a disgraceful and lazy attitude.
Sure, they may not be as sustainable as the men’s league, but we should still continue the efforts of expanding football to the Women’s side of things until they can be.
Just shows the hypocrisy and greed, to say that they can’t afford tests for women is ridiculous…
It’s called equality eh 32?
Couldn’t agree more. Pathetic excuse for abandoning the women who love to play football.
We hear so much about the restart of the Premier League, but what about the rest, Championship, 1,2 & 3. Have they been abandoned? Because if the PL has to play out to decide who is relegated, Surely the Championship and so on need to play out to decide who is promoted. What is the situation??