A lack of means in clubs
The financial crisis seems a good pretext to justify the lack of means allocated to the female sections. But the professional framework was implemented faster with our neighbors. The league has been professional in England since 2017. Since 2022 for Spain. In France, the creation of a professional league (LFFP) dates back just a year. And there is a fracture between the championship cadors like Olympique Lyonnais and PSG and the other clubs. A chasm if you look at the lower ladder. In 2024, the Brest players in Division 3 denounced Their working and life condition with unsanitary housing, unspecified wages and a lack of consideration.
Within the UNFP, the main union of players, we follow the loan file, but we see Blocking of clubs on fundamentals such as a collective agreement. “The profession of professional footballer is exactly the same as that of professional footballer. Despite everything, clubs are still opposed to a collective agreement which takes up things that have existed for a very long time among boys as coverage, in the event of a health glossy to avoid big precariousness” explains the vice-president Fabien Safanjon. The collective agreement of pro footballers is therefore still in a standstill. “The clubs hide behind, precisely, the economic context. But again, are it the girls who have to suffer from the economic context”?
14 million euros for women’s football in 2025-2026
The president of the LFFP, Jean-Michel Aulas, former president of OL with the eight champions leagues, aims at ambitious objectives, in particular, concerning the training centers And then to attract the public to the stadiums. The efforts are seen for some clubs, but others. At the amateur level, one can wonder about the motivation of certain structures, to push the practice of women’s football explains Pauline Le Mouelic. “There are funding that exists for women’s football sections in clubs. But in the end, we realize that a club can use this money exclusively for boys and not report behind”. The French Federation has budgeted 14 million euros To develop female football the next season. The FFF aims at the 500,000 licensees in 2028.
