UEFA Promises Funding To Make Football the Biggest Sport For Women
From 2020, an extra £2.4m (2.75m euros) will be available to improve women’s football. This funding will be provided by the revenue generated from the men’s European Championship that year.
Since 2004, the men’s game has seen 1.8 billion invested into its development; and with the record-breaking attendances and viewership of the Women’s Euro in 2017, UEFA is has started to focus more on the women’s game.
Under UEFA’s HatTrick Scheme, a 100,000 euros is currently being paid to its 55 member associations by theWomen’s Football Development Programme, and this figure is set to rise to 150,000 euros.
Ceferin has been the President of UEFA since 2016 and he is keen to make a difference:
“The potential for women’s football is limitless and it is with this in mind UEFA has taken the step to increase funding available to the national associations to help improve the women’s game,” said UEFA president, Aleksander Ceferin.
“Increasing the participation and the role of women in football has been one of my main objectives, both before and after I became UEFA president.”
