Women's and Girls' Football
Women’s and girls’ football continues to grow with more players competing in affiliated competition than any other team sport.
There has been an increase in the number of players, clubs, leagues and competitions since 1993; the number of players has increased from
10,400 to over 150,000 today.
Sport England’s Active People survey in 2008 highlighted that 260,000 women and 1.1 million girls play some form of football in England. There are 26 million females playing across the world, of which 4.1 million are playing affiliated football – this is a 54% growth since the year 2000 (FIFA Big Count 2006). | 
