From burnout to body shaming – the hidden pressures for female footballers are mounting. The game may be thriving, but are ...

In April, it emerged Chelsea had sold the team to parent company BlueCo for £198.7m, a process that helped put the wider business into profit. Then last week it was announced that Reddit founder ...

The proposition for World Sevens Football (W7F), a new global women’s “grand slam series”, is simple: some of the best players from eight clubs around the globe competing in a three-day ...

The introduction of the Discover My Talent programme ensures any talented girl, from any background ... young players for senior football. The duration of the strategy has coincided with exponential ...

A New Jersey football team is breaking barriers and setting new standards for women in the sport ... the same way that they do," Crosby said. All backgrounds and experience levels are welcome.

From this shortlist, votes were cast by women’s national team coaches, women’s national team captains, football journalists, and fans who voted on FIFA’s official website. Voters made their ...

The English Football Association (FA) has said it will ban transgender players from women's football from next season, starting on June 1. The move comes after Britain's highest court delivered a ...

England's national Football Association announced Thursday that transgender women will not be able to ... among the millions of amateur players registered with the association, there were ...

Goal Diggers Football Club, a London-based trans-inclusive women’s team, held a tournament on Sunday. The message was clear. Yes, it's a sad day, but no one will stop us playing the sport we love.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

LONDON — For soccer-loving transgender women in England, it’s been a tough day, as the ban on their participation in women’s teams came into force. To show its solidarity with the community ...