July 22 – On the day the WEuro 2025 reached semi-final stage in Geneva, Switzerland, representatives of the Europe’s girls’s leagues gathered simply down the highway in Nyon to formally launch the Girls’s European Leagues ‘platform’.
Fiona McIntyre, managing director of SWPL (Scotland), will chair the brand new physique. Nikki Doucet, CEO of WSL Soccer (England), Beatriz Alvarez, president of Liga F (Spain), and Anders Billström, chairman of Elitfotboll Dam (Sweden), make up the administration board.
Different leagues current on the founding of the physique included: Professional League (Belgium), Kvindedivisionsforeningen (Denmark), Frauen-Bundesliga (Germany), League of Eire, Icelandic Girls’s Premier Division, Northern Eire Soccer League, and Toppserien (Norway).
“The establishment of the Women’s European Leagues Platform is a historic day for women’s football in Europe,” mentioned McIntyre.
“The role of leagues in advancing women’s football cannot be under-estimated, and this new platform will enable leagues to work collectively and collaboratively with key stakeholders across the game to advance our shared objective for the development of women’s football in Europe.”
Girls’s European Leagues (WEL) mentioned it goals to facilitate collective collaboration, and coordinated illustration at continental stage.
“The platform will foster knowledge sharing, develop collective business opportunities, and act as the leading representative body on all matters of common interest for member leagues,” mentioned a press assertion.
To that finish the launch was additionally attended by representatives from key European institutional stakeholders from Nationwide Associations, gamers and golf equipment.
WEL mentioned it’s open for extra girls’s leagues to affix which have an impartial skilled construction or are built-in with the lads’s skilled league as ‘Ordinary Members’. Federations liable for their nationwide girls’s league may be a part of as ‘Associate’ Members.
