Can the WSL escape the shadow of the Premier League?
Women’s football in England has big ambitions
IN 1992, 22 top-division English clubs resigned from the Football League to establish the Premier League. This upstart has since become the richest football league in the world. In August women’s football in England had its own 1992 moment. The Women’s Super League (WSL), a 12-team competition run by the Football Association since its creation in 2010, came under the control of a new entity, Women’s Professional Leagues Ltd (WPLL). The organisation’s boss, Nikki Doucet, wants to make the WSL “the most distinctive, competitive and entertaining women’s football club competition in the world”.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Goal setting”
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