Purpose Women's football has received increasing attention in the academic literature,
partly due to its growing popularity worldwide. However, women's football research remains …

Research question To date no studies have conceptualised women's professional football
as work. In 2011, the inception of the FA Women's Super League (FA WSL), created the …

The aim of this study was to identify gender differences in technical-tactical behaviour in
football. To this end 68 matches of the first division of the Spanish men's and womens …

The use of multidimensional statistical technique based on decision trees is of recent
application in sports science. In the case of football, this technique has not yet been …

Women's professional team sport leagues have experienced a dramatic increase, yet
research exploring the employment conditions and the perspectives the players involved is …

In 2011, the Football Association (FA), the national governing body of football in England,
launched the first semi-professional league for women. The inception of the FA Women's …

Women's football is the fastest growing participation sport in both the UK and across the
world, and the 2015 Women's World Cup was the biggest tournament the sport had ever …

The professionalization of the Argentine women's first division in 2019 allows an in-depth
analysis of an underdeveloped and historically marginalized women's football in Latin …

In this paper, we examine ethnic discrimination using sport as a laboratory. Applying a field
experiment in the three Scandinavian countries—Sweden, Norway, and Denmark—we test …

This article examines the potentials and paradoxes of professionalisation in women's
football expressed at the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 Championship. Through an event …