They’re tackling gender norms, embracing self-expression, bucking societal expectations and playing rough to win.

For gender studies scholar Michael Messner, the flag football phenomenon also raises a thorny question: if tackle football is ...

A women's football team is to play its first competitive match in 16 years. Blyth Spartans Women will return to Croft Park ...

Players, supporters and coaches say it is the perfect opportunity for women to take up space in football.

Flag football at schools like Saint Joseph High in Lakewood allows girls to experience the game they grew up watching their ...

Members of Screamer Alliance FC said they found about 20 teenagers on their pre-booked pitch in Barnard Park, Islington, north London, on Saturday. The group refused to leave, took equipment and ...

Sartirani’s testimony can be easily supported by facts. Throughout Euro 2025, more than 500 million people tuned in on their ...

Nothing has stirred more bizarre, irrational rage in recent years than women playing football. Not climate change, not taxes, not even unfixed potholes.

Elaha Safdari was 17 and had just earned her maiden call-up as a goalkeeper for Afghanistan's women's football team when she was forced to flee Kabul during the Taliban takeover in 2021.

The old dinosaur Jeremy Clarkson claims he likes women’s football. In fact, he wrote a column about it for The Sunday Times, saying he found the Lionesses’ Euros final “exciting”. Great ...