By Matt Cutler

The English Football Association will today announce an eight-club women’s Super League commencing in the summer of 2011.

The FA hopes the Super League will stop England players crossing the Atlantic to play in the US Women’s Professional Soccer League where they play as full-time professionals. Presently only 19 women in England are on full-time central contracts, all with the national team and paid around £16,000 a year, the equivalent average weekly wage of a mid-table men’s Premier League player.

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