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I see no chance that it will ever pull in revenue. People don't come to see the under 15's in droves or watch pub teams in their thousands because it's just not very good. Similarly, realistically,
women's football is equally unlikely to ever command a large fanbase.....
There were a series of adverts recently for Women's football on Facebook where they had edited explosions and 'trails of fire' on the ball to make it seem interesting. It still didn't, but the fact that they felt that this was necessary says everything.
30,596 people paid to watch the US womens team beat NZ's womens team 5-0 last night in a friendly. I suspect that pulled in quite a bit of revenue when you also add in the tv broadcast rights. Interesting because it was just a friendly.
There is a trend taking place that people who dont actually play grassroots football or have any involvement in grassroots football are completely unaware of. The growth of the womens game over the last 20 years has been huge, the current growth continues at a very steady pace. That coupled with social changes regarding sport, how its watched and by who its watched by give a clear indication that womens football has a growing fanbase.
You dont have to have a huge fanbase to have a viable pro competition. Scotlands 1st division is a pro division where the average attendance of some teams is under 1000 per week. A couple of young women i used to coach here in NZ now play football for Universities in the US and play in front of 3000 to 4000 people every week. Thats unpaid.
There are lower league teams in UK mens football with players who are full time pro players. They earn no more than the average worker but they are full time pro players. Thats for teams with attendances less than 1000 a week.
People watch football because they love the game. If people only watched teams that were very good we wouldnt have the thousands of pro football clubs playing all around the world.
Some of the arguments in here are really ignorant of the actual football community as opposed to those who only watch the big teams on tv.