Women’s Football, Europe and Professionalization 1971-2011

This was one of the four inaugural projects funded by the European Football Confederations (UEFA) at the launch of its academic universitites division in 2010-11. There are currently 53 member associations and the project examines the spread of female football in Europe, while UEFA has expanded to incorporate a larger number of countries than the EU (currently 27). Jean Williams, Principle Investigator, used the previously private archives of UEFA to tell the story 1971-2011. The project concluded with 50,000 word report in July 2011 with a presentation at UEFA HQ in Nyon Switzerland. Subsequently, Jean contracted jointly with CIES, Switzerland and UEFA to develop the report and publish a 60,000 word monograph in 2013