Hemp plays in the English Women’s Super League for Manchester City, which in 2022 changed its uniform to exclude white shorts, in favor of burgundy ones, following feedback from players.

The women’s soccer team said its players would not wear white shorts at the World Cup this summer, acknowledging the concern that some players had expressed about period leaks.

Similar moves away from white shorts for female soccer players have been reported this year among national teams and a U.S. National Women’s League Soccer team.

The New Zealand women's soccer team will swap their home kit's white shorts for teal blue to ease players' period anxieties, the country's football association (NZF) said. The Football Ferns will ...

The Orlando Pride ditches white shorts over period concerns It's the first National Women's Soccer League team to adopt such a change in uniforms. The goal is to make players more "comfortable and ...

T he women’s national soccer teams of New Zealand and England are the latest to announce the end of the use of white shorts in their official uniforms, as more female athletes around the world ...

Key points. Women athletes claim that white shorts can make them anxious. A new study finds that women’s soccer teams lose significantly more often against teams in non-white shorts.

Several women's soccer players have shrugged off or lashed out at the FIFA president's comments. "He doesn't know what he's talking about," English goalkeeper Pauline Cope told the Associated Press .