Football journalist Harriet Drudge gives us the lowdown on women’s professional football following today’s announcement that Manchester United will field a professional women’s team for the very first time in 2018/19…
The FA Women’s Super League is only seven years young. How was women's football in England structured beforehand?
Before the FAWSL launched in April 2011, the league was run in a pyramid format, with three divisions making up the pyramid: the FA Women's Premier League (National) at the top, with the Northern and Southern divisions on equal footing, forming the second tier.