Women's football has been evolving linearly for a few years now. With the 2015 World Cup, the number of licensees has again greatly evolved. Still far behind men's football, "women" are slowly starting to take an interest in a sport that is booming in France.
Already in 2014, the number of players had increased by more than 19% over the previous year to almost 77,000 registrants. And today according to our information, the number of licensees in the hexagon would reach 95,000! A very nice increase therefore, certainly driven by the 2015 world which took place in Canada (final victory of the USA).

Below are the figures for 2014:

The FFF announced that it wanted to change the sport and women's football since 2013 by setting up events to promote the sport or by financially helping to broadcast the competitions. Successfully since in 2011, there were only 43,000 licensed women. Brigitte Henriques, general secretary in charge of the development of women's football at the FFF, hoped to pass the 100,000 mark in 2015, the goal has almost been reached.

Still far behind Germany or the USA ...

It's no secret that in the United States more than 60% of "soccer" licensees are women. The USA remains the strong nation of this sport. At the European level, Germany is also a reference because more than 14% of football licensees are players. In France, the share is still very limited but tends to evolve towards the German model in a few years.

The French women's team also remains an obvious springboard for the evolution of French women's sports. Indeed, we see that when the Blue perform a good international competition, the number of licensees also increases significantly in the months that follow ...

It is still work for the FFF or UEFA which announced, under the chairmanship of Michel Platini, last February: "The quality of women's football has progressed enormously over the last ten years and UEFA is strongly committed to the development of women's competitions, both at national and European level ". UEFA had named five ambassadors, including Parisian Laura Georges and Lyonnaise Camille Abily, both French internationals.

Little by little, women's football is evolving in our country, culminating in the 2019 World Cup taking place in France. Today the goal is to reach the 100,000 licensees as quickly as possible, and continue to promote this sport that has decidedly nothing to envy to French men's football.

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