Fifa backs rule to boost number of women coaches in women's football | OneFootball

Fifa has given the green light to a rule designed to encourage a greater number of female coaches in its women's football competitions, especially in the Women's World Cup and the upcoming Women's Club World Cup.

“To promote gender equality,” these tournaments “will now include a regulatory requirement that the head coach and/or at least one of the assistant coaches (…) must be women,” the organization said in a statement.

In the most recent Women's World Cup, held in 2023 in Australia and New Zealand, only 12 of the 32 participating national teams had a woman leading their coaching staff, a proportion similar to that observed in the previous tournament, in France, in 2019.

The next Women's World Cup is scheduled to take place in Brazil in 2027.

Following the model that will debut in 2025 with the expanded Club World Cup, Fifa will launch the women's version of this competition in January 2028, at a venue yet to be determined.

*With content from AFP

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