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The Women's Super League launched in 2011 is the nation's first professional women's football league, developed ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics hosted in London and inaugurated around the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. It restructured to become fully professional in 2018, making it the only fully professional league in Europe at the time.
For the 2020 season, Spain introduced the "Compensation List", part of a wider agreement between women's football clubs as a step towards professionalism; intended to compensate the expenses of youth training when young players joined senior clubs, [172] the Compensation List ruled that players under the age of 23 could only transfer between ...
The Women's Professional American Football League (WPFL) was a women's professional American football league in the United States. With teams across the United States, the WPFL had its first game in 1999 with just two original teams: the Lake Michigan Minx and the Minnesota Vixens. Fifteen teams nationwide competed for the championship in 2006.
The Women's Football Alliance (WFA) is a semi-pro full-contact Women's American football league that began play in 2009. It is the largest 11-on-11 football league for women in the world, and the longest running active women's football league in the U.S. Since 2016, the league has operated with three competitive levels: Pro, Division 2 and ...
Professional women's association football players have organized to dispute several issues specific to the sport, such as disparities in compensation compared to men's teams; [1] insufficient pay to compete with other women's teams; [2] unfair or exclusionary financial terms of federation business agreements involving the team; [1] a lack of minimum standards in facilities and treatment ...
The Women's Professional Football League operated again between 1999 and 2007. A second league, the Independent Women's Football League was founded in 2000. In 2009 were founded the Women's Football Alliance and The X League. In 2010, Katie Hnida became the kicker for the Fort Wayne FireHawks in the Continental Indoor Football League. [2]
Amazon paid its way to become the sole broadcaster of Thursday Night Football by signing a 12-year agreement with the league, worth upwards of a billion dollars per year.
The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is the top level professional women's soccer league in the United States. It began play in spring 2013 with eight teams; four of them were former members of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), which had been the top women's league in the United States soccer pyramid before its folding in 2012.