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Media Framing of Women’s Football During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article examines British media coverage of women’s association football during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, to identify how the media framed the women’s game and how these frames could shape the public perceptions of it.
The Incompatibility of Motherhood and Professional Women's Football in England
This article offers an examination of the gender-specific needs of women as professional footballers, focusing specifically on the distinctive aspect of maternity policy.
Identifying Strategies for Attracting Sponsors in the Women's Football League of Iran
The purpose of this study was to identify strategies attracting sponsors for Iranian women's football league.
Kicking against tradition: women's football, negotiating friendships and social spaces
This article examines friendships and social networks in the context of amateur women’s football.
Women’s football studies: an integrative review
Focusing on the social sciences, humanities and management disciplines, the purpose of this paper is to map and organise contributions, and to identify research directions for future studies within these disciplines.
Policy, political and economic determinants of the evolution of competitive balance in the FIFA women’s football World Cups
This article is interested in the evolution of competitive balance in the FIFA women’s football World Cups over the 1991–2019 period. It aims to identify the policy, political and economic determinants of this evolution.
Negotiating the status of women’s football in Norway. An analysis of online supporter discourses
In this article, they analysed how online supporters of men’s football view and discuss the status of women’s football in Norway.
Teamwork and performance in professional women's football: A network-based analysis
The aim of this study was to investigate teamwork using network analysis while com-paring match-outcome, match-type, ladder halves and tournament phases, to determine whether teamwork is related to success.
The way out? African players’ migration to Scandinavian women’s football
This article looks at the ways in which the African context is reflected in African female footballers’ motives for migrating to Scandinavia.
Women's Football: An Examination of Factors That Influence Movement Patterns
The article provides a summary of the literature specific to the movement patterns of women's football matches.
Levelling the field? The English Football Association's promotion of their men's and women's national teams through Twitter
This study examines and compares the coverage of both the England men's and women's national football teams by their governing body, The Football Association (FA), immediately before, during and immediately following their respective 2020 and 2022 European Championships.
Inclusive, inviting, inspiring: Insights into the experiences of women's football fans in Australia and Germany
This article surveyed fans located in Australia and Germany to explore perceived differences in the culture of women’s football.
The soft power of Arab women’s football: changing perceptions and building legitimacy through social media
This study examines the capacity of Arab women’s football committees to engage soft power to challenge local and international perceptions of gender norms and gain acceptance in the region.
More than just a game’: family and spectacle in marketing the England Women’s Super League
This study employed observation at WSL matches and interviews with personnel involved in the League to identify how the FA conceptualised the WSL as a product in its first three years.
Towards Equal Rights in the Global Game? FIFA’s Strategy for Women’s Football as a Tightly Bounded Institutional Innovation
This article examines the FIFA women’s football strategy through a feminist institutionalist approach and offers insights into the bounded model of change endorsed by the Women’s Football Strategy.
Integrated women's football teams can attract larger stadium crowds
This article examines whether integrated women’s football teams (which may benefit from brand spillover effects, among other things) attracts larger crowds to their stadiums through empirical analysis.
“The American Outlaws Are Our People”: Fox Sports and the Branded Ambivalence of an American Soccer Fan at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup
Drawing on fan studies, sports media studies, media industries studies, and participant observation of the American Outlaws, this essay analyzes specific aspects of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup as televised by Fox Sports in the wider context of soccer’s evolving place within the American sports media marketplace.
The Football Association's Women’s Super League and female soccer fans: fan engagement and the importance of supporter clubs
A qualitative case study approach is utilized, via the use of semi-structured interviews to explore the demographics and motives of women who watch soccer at the elite level and their socialization into fan communities.
Uncovering injuries in Brazilian elite women's football: A prospective cohort study
This article examines injury profiles for women at 4 elite Brazilian clubs over the course of a season.
UEFA Women’s Elite Club Injury Study: a prospective study on 1527 injuries over four consecutive seasons
An article investigating the time-loss injury epidemiology and characteristics among women’s elite football players over four seasons in the UEFA Club season.