It has been a painful few years for Australia’s trailblazing women’s team, while overseas football clubs just like theirs are funded and flourishing
Three years ago, the Women’s World Cup promised a new dawn for football in Australia. Record crowds, unprecedented funding, and widespread media coverage signalled a turning point for the domestic game, offering a vision for what football could look like if women were its driving force.
The hope was that this groundswell would be funnelled into the A-League Women, accelerating it towards full-time professionalism and putting it back on par with the thriving women’s leagues in Europe and North America.