If you have ever watched the Lionesses, the Women's World Cup, or even just caught a WSL game in passing, I need your opinion.

I am researching women's football fan engagement for my Masters dissertation at Warwick Business School and the survey takes 5 to 6 minutes. Your perspective matters whether you follow women's football casually or religiously.

All responses are anonymous and the data will only be used for my dissertation.

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Sharing this with anyone else who might be interested would also be a huge help. Thank you.

Hi everyone,

I hope this is okay to post!

I'm an MSc Sport Marketing student at Loughborough University, and I'm currently looking for participants for my dissertation.

My research explores how the family-friendly positioning of women's football in the UK influences fan engagement

I'm looking to speak with UK-based women's football supporters aged 18+, whether you're a season ticket holder, attend matches occasionally, or mainly follow the game online. You don't need to have children or attend every match. I'm interested in hearing a range of perspectives.

The interview would take place online, last around 20 minutes, and all responses will be kept completely confidential and anonymised.

If you'd be interested in taking part or would like more information, please comment below or send me a private message, and I'll send over the Participant Information Sheet.

I'd really appreciate any support, and thank you so much for helping with my research!

Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know about a free resource that makes it super easy to find and attend women's football matches in London across FAWSL, FAWNL and Internationals. If you're a sport-loving Londoner then you'll want to check it out 👀

Matchside is a live sport events directory covering every ticketed sports event in London, and there's a dedicated section for women's football as well 😀.

The FAWNL fixtures are already live on the site, and the FAWSL will be added as soon as they are released so you'll find every London-based team in the top 4 leagues on there.

I also send a weekly "what's on" roundup email covering all the live sport to attend in London each week, with ticket availability and prices -- you can subscribe for free to get it straight to your inbox.

Matchside is a passion project with the goal of increasing attendances at sports events, and I started it off the back of feedback from the Reddit community, so if you have thoughts on what you'd like to see on the site or hear about in the weekly email, my DMs are always open! Thanks 🙏

Anyone receive the email this morning? Thoughts? Worth it?

After that thrashing by Spain and then a comfortable win against Ukraine in the last 2 World Cup Qualifier fixtures to have been pipped at the post with 15 points and not enough on goal difference to automatically qualify, I'm feeling 90% confident the Lionesses will breeze through the play offs rather convincingly.

Last time when The Lionesses have to go through a play off (excluding the 2011 Women's World Cup when the winner of each group goes to a play off) was back in 2002 when they finished second in the group behind Germany and lost both play off fixtures against France and failed to qualify for the Women's World Cup 2003 citing reasons England wasn't good enough.

But now with more experience, this time round should be next to no problems whatsoever with more talented players and hopefully some new players that get the senior call up. No country, not even England Lionesses, have ever qualified via play off and won the tournament whether it's Euros or World Cup. We may not be able to win the Women's World Cup this time round if we do qualify but it would be history if it ever happens. Wishing the Lionesses the very best of luck.

Starting XI: Hampton, Le Tissier, Carter, Morgan (16), Charles (17), Stanway (20),.Walsh (18), Blindkidle, Hemp, Russo, James (19).

Subs: Greenwood (6), Mead (7), Kelly (3), Park (8), Kendall (4).

The number represents subs that where brought on to replace the starting player.

Heatmaps used: One Football

Statistical data: One Football

Stats: Possession (ENG) 81% - 19% (UKR), Shots on Target (ENG) 10 - 1 (UKR), Shot Accuracy (ENG) 38% - 20%, Shots Inside (ENG) 16 - 4 (UKR), Total Shots (ENG) 26 - 5 (UKR) Dules Won (ENG) 52% - 48% (UKR), Tackles (ENG) 15 - 31 (UKR), Tackles Won (ENG) 67% - 52% (UKR), Interceptions (ENG) 7 - 6 (UKR), Clearances (ENG) 5 - 45 (UKR).

England beat Ukraine 3-0 at the Hilldickson stadium (Everton) to secure World Cup Play off rounds! A comeback that ended on a high with excellent play by Russo, Blindkidle and a beautiful free-kick by Beth Mead. Has the defence problem been solved with 3 at the back?! All will be discussed as follows using statistical data via One Football.

14 minutes into the game Jess Carter heads home 1-0 via Lauren James, then in 37th minute Russo passes the ball into the box and Stanway slides it home; 2nd half 67th minute England win a free-kick and is shot beautifully by Beth Mead who is now on an equal goal scoring record to Farra Williams.

Shots on Target 10, shows a drastic improvement from Spain away, mostly likely down to the change in midfield and fullbacks. Blindkidle was brought in and linked brilliantly with the front three. Fullbacks also changed with Charles and Le Tisser coming in as attacking Wingbacks which created more of an attacking threat, including Le Tisser getting in a goal scoring opportunity. Shot Accuracy increased 38% (38%) which correlates with the aggressive style of football. Shots inside the box increased by 15 (16) again correlates to the attacking fallbacks, more attacking football and Russo, Hemp and James able to get the shots away instead of being isolated. Total shots increased by 23 (26) which includes shots inside the box and outside the box, shots that went on target, shots that were saved. Overall, The Shots show a massive increase in attack from the previous game and shows attacking aggressive football fits England's style more than possessive and defensive football.

Possession increased by 43% (81%) which shows how England controlled the game well, with interception at 7, Tackles at 15 and Tackles Won 67%, this shows how England fully controlled the game with Carter, Greenwood and Le Tisser acting as a back three ready to invert as CBs when Ukraine countered. Duels won was 52% which correlates England's control of the game and the urgency for attacking style football and clearing any chances of attack from Ukraine (5). Jess Park also later on helped control the game with the quick counters going from defence to attack with links up from Mead and Blindkidle. This also helped decrease Ukraine's chances in attacking football.

The back three with Carter, Greenwood and Le Tisser really helped control the game and create opportunities late on; a back three system works best with England style of football with highly creative players such as Russo, James, Hemp, Stanway, Blindkidle; then having Walsh as a solid 6 to track back into a 4 incase of a counter attack; on top of that having Le Tisser and Charles (replaced by Kelly) as attacking Wingbacks which created more chances and defensive control.

England are through to the play offs and will find out their opponent on 18th June 2026.

We will be on pathway 1

The teams finishing second and third in League A groups will play the six group winners and two best-ranked runners-up in League C.

The teams from League A will be seeded and play the second legs at home. The eight winners progress to round 2.

League A

England

Iceland

Italy

Sweden

Norway

Austria

League C

Lithuania

Kosovo

Hungary

Greece

Romania

Belarus

2 best runner ups,

Croatia and Azerbaijan, but I havent checked the permutations as some groups have 3 teams.

Unlucky England, just a bit too little too late. Euro Champs and World Champs shouldn't be in the same qualifying group in the current system but credit where it's due for Spain who are clearly on another level at the moment and deserve to go through automatically, Spain maybe favourites to lift it again for the World but anything can happen.

I can only suggest England should take a leaf out of Spain's book and play attacking football much more regularly. Fairly confident England will eventually qualify for the World Cup via play-offs IF they get their acts together.