Football Partnerships

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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Sports goods retailer Intersport Finland has agreed a deal with UEFA to become a National Supporter and the Official Sports Shop of football’s Women’s Euro 2009 tournamen

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The new Philadelphia Independence women’s pro soccer team has introduced its logo and team flag and the designs are intended to represent many facets of the team and the community for which it will play.

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By Tyler Hicks

On a recent cold, gray Sunday, two Turkish premier league soccer teams enthusiastically ran onto the field of a small stadium on the outskirts of Istanbul.

The 18-game inaugural season marks the second attempt to form a women’s soccer league in Turkey.

Turks are soccer mad, with games regularly attended by tens of thousands of boisterous fans. But at this game, between host Kartalspor and Ankara’s Gazi Universitesispor, the 22 players on the field outnumbered the people shivering in the stands.

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