![]() The league has been featured by CBS, Iheartradio, NFL Network, NBC, ABC, FOX4, Yahoo Sports, Sports Illustrated, and is recognized as the leader in bringing sponsors, media and new fans to women’s tackle football. With one season of play under their belt, the WNFC became one of the fastest-growing sports brands in the country. They launched their inaugural season in 2019 with 15 teams. On December 18, 2018, adidas launched a groundbreaking partnership with the WNFC as a part of their “She Breaks Barriers” campaign. We are building a sports entertainment, apparel, and lifestyle company that will change the way the world sees women. Our business not only fills a critical gap in the most popular sport in the world, but we are also inspiring women and girls to dream big, build big, and hit hard. There are also hopes to extend the women’s league to full 11v11 in the future.”Īs for the Women’s National Football Conference, its website says, “WNFC has revolutionized sports by bringing women’s tackle football to the world stage for the first time. As we continue to achieve sustainable organic growth, the overall objective is to move to full field football in the near future with plans to move to the 9v9 format for the 2022 season. “Since its inception in 2012, the Women’s Contact game has experienced incremental growth over the years. ![]() In its current form, the series consists of three full day training sessions, culminating with a North vs South game. The series has had various guises over the years and has previously acted as trials for the GB National team. The NWFL Super 11s series offers female athletes the opportunity to play the more traditional version of the sport that we see in the NFL and NCAA. “As well as the annual 7v7 league, the NWFL also provides women with the opportunity to compete in an 11v11 format. In 2020, the Sapphire name was dropped in favor of a more conventional name for the league, the National Women’s Football League (NWFL), and the season was moved to the summer period to avoid a crossover with the winter sports schedules. The league currently has 17 active clubs located across Great Britain-making the sport widely accessible to athletes across the country. After seeing a further growth in participation in 2017/18, all divisions were moved to the 7v7 format which is the format that we play today. As the women’s contact game grew over the years, the league was extended to a two tier system with a Division One and Division Two in 2016, each with a North and South conference. ![]() The Women’s National Football Conference, according to its website, “The Women’s Contact League started in 2012 and was originally played in the 5v5 format called the Sapphire Series. The Women’s National Football Association (WNFA), formerly the National Women’s Football League, the Women’s National Football Conference and British-American Football’s Women’s National Football League which, obviously, has not received a request from the US’s National Football League or NFL to change their name. Presently, there are three major women’s American football sports organizations, two are in the US and one in Great Britain. It was the first official professional women’s football league in US history and consisted of seven teams: the Los Angeles Dandelions, Toledo Troopers, California Mustangs, Dallas–Fort Worth Shamrocks, Detroit Demons, Dallas Bluebonnets and Columbus Pacesetters.”Īfter the 2002 season, the National Women’s Football League was pressured by the National Football League (NFL) to make a name change and for some of the teams to change their team logos because of the strong semblance to those NFL teams. That year, many of Friedman’s other teams joined forces with SKW’s teams and a few independent women’s football outlets around the country to form a single, unified group: the National Women’s Football League. ![]() Wallace served as the team’s general manager. “The Pacesetters moved under SKW’s ownership in 1974. The earliest recorded attempt at doing it was as early as in the 1970’s, according to the aforementioned article. As I was doing my research on women’s American football, there’s a lot of history behind the effort to establish the sport. I CAME across the Sports Illustrated Daily Cover article, “How One Women’s Football Team Took Control Away From the Men” by Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D’Arcangelo. ![]()
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