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José Mera Cuevas

Founder and editor of FemGol. Lifelong football fan — he just switched channels and never looked back.

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1. FFC Frankfurt celebrate in Berlin after winning the 2015 Women's Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain.

Frankfurt and PSG meet again, eleven years after a final decided in the 92nd minute

1. FFC Frankfurt defeated Paris Saint-Germain in Berlin to claim their fourth European title. They have not met since. On Wednesday, one will book a place in the Champions League league phase and the other will drop into the Women's Europa Cup.

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Barcelona Tenerife

LIGA F

Barcelona vs Costa Adeje Tenerife: champions host last season's fourth-placed side

Real Madrid Atlético

LIGA F

Czarni have already played seven games; Leuven are still piecing together a new side

Wolfsburg 2 Inter 0

TOURNAMENTS

Wolfsburg have changed the team, not the obligation

Brann supporters unfurl their banner at the Åsane Arena in the first leg of the Women's Champions League quarter-final.

TOURNAMENTS

Two champions, the same 8-2 record and a door only Brann have opened

Real Sociedad

TEAMS

Real Sociedad 2026/27: Champions League football demands a new source of goals

Plough Lane, the AFC Wimbledon ground where Chelsea host Real Sociedad.

TOURNAMENTS

Chelsea open their season in a qualifier for the first time in six years, against a side that has not lost since July

The match officials warm up at De Toekomst before a Women's Champions League tie at Ajax.

TOURNAMENTS

Real Madrid open their season at a training ground, without their captain, against an Ajax side already four wins deep

SPAIN

Spain call up 18 Liga F players for the U20 World Cup, two days before the league starts

YOUTH

China scored 14 and conceded none against Real Madrid, Bayern and Manchester City

Barcelona supporters at the 2025/26 Champions League final, won by their team against OL Lyonnes.

TEAMS

FC Barcelona 2026/27: rebuilding from the summit

Costa Adeje Tenerife's captains during pre-season, 2026/27.

TEAMS

Costa Adeje Tenerife 2026/27: life after Natalia Ramos

Valencia

TEAMS

Valencia test their Liga F return with Champions League looming for PSG

Sevilla

TEAMS

Sevilla end pre-season against Alexia and Mapi’s London City

Eibar

TEAMS

Eibar defend the cup against the Real Sociedad side that won both derbies

$Athenea del Castillo with Deportivo in December 2019. She now plays for Real Madrid and misses the friendly after surgery on a fractured collarbone.$

TEAMS

Real Madrid run out of rehearsals

Badalona

TEAMS

Badalona head to Espanyol after scoring four goals three games running

Basarte, in Amurrio, where the first EH Kopa semi-final is played.

TEAMS

Athletic are yet to score this pre-season as seven-goal Alavés await in the EH Kopa

Rose Lavelle playing for the United States against China in June 2018.

PLAYERS

Rose Lavelle learnt to play outside the crowd

Jade Rose, Manchester City centre-back, in September 2025.

TEAMS

Barcelona visit the English champions: kick-off time and how to watch the Manchester City friendly

Elba Vergés during the pre-season friendly against Deportivo Alavés.

TEAMS

Costa Adeje Tenerife v Atlético: kick-off time and how to watch the Trofeo Teide final for free

The Yuanshen Sports Centre in Shanghai, one of the two venues for the Future Star Cup.

YOUTH

Real Madrid and Real Sociedad take youth teams to Shanghai: fixtures for the first women's Future Star Cup

Badalona

TEAMS

Kalu Chinyere stays in Liga F after joining Badalona from relegated Levante

Chelsea walk out at Wembley before the 2025 FA Cup final against Manchester United.

TOURNAMENTS

Chelsea finished third after six straight league titles. Their competitive season starts against Real Sociedad

The 'AmsterDames' banner of Ajax's women's supporters, November 2018.

TOURNAMENTS

Ajax lost five pillars. They will host Real Madrid with six debutants and four matches behind them

TOURNAMENTS

Real Madrid must overcome Ajax; Real Sociedad will face Chelsea for a league phase place

YOUTH

Marina Rupérez has moved up a division every season. At 17, she is already in Segunda Federación

Linda Caicedo during Chelsea-Real Madrid in the 2023-24 Champions League at Stamford Bridge.

TOURNAMENTS

Real Madrid and Real Sociedad to learn their final hurdle before the league phase

PLAYERS

Raiderlín Carrasco arrived in Spain with two dreams. Four years later, both are still alive

TOURNAMENTS

Málaga have kept 16 players; Betis have released 16

TOURNAMENTS

Six teams, two starting points: how the Copa Andalucía works

PLAYERS

Mapi Vilas did not retire. She found another kind of football

Antônia with Brazil at the friendly against Germany played in April 2023.

TEAMS

Antônia Silva leaves Real Madrid and returns to Brazil after seven years

Natalia Ramos holds up her Costa Adeje Tenerife shirt with both hands during a match.

TEAMS

Natalia Ramos joins Liverpool after playing more minutes than any other Liga F player last season

Barcelona B

PRIMERA FEDERACIÓN

Barcelona sign Josephine Lamp before her senior debut

Andrea Falcón with Spain at the friendly against Germany played in Erfurt in November 2018.

PLAYERS

Andrea Falcón retires at 29 after two seasons without playing

Logroño

LIGA F

Logroño United have more Argentines than the other 15 clubs combined

LIGA F

Athletic estimate Gasol16 deal could reduce clubs’ revenue by more than €100m

Madrid CFF

TEAMS

Madrid CFF start again: youth at the heart of a rebuild after eleven departures

SPAIN

European boycott of FIFA threatens September's Under-20 Women's World Cup

PLAYERS

Kate Taylor was vice-captain at 18. At 22, she led New Zealand to World Cup qualification

Alavés

TEAMS

Alavés sign Sarah Brasero on loan after her first season at West Ham

PLAYERS

Débora Bebê returned to under-20 football after becoming a top scorer — and worked her way to the top flight

Cacereño

PRIMERA FEDERACIÓN

Cacereño enter a new era without changing their coach

LIGA F

Liga F is back in training: the essentials from a summer that is far from over

An FC Barcelona banner bearing the motto ‘El nostre camí’, installed outside Oslo City Hall.

LIGA F

The new Barça starts at the back: four defenders aged 21 or under for a new era

PIONEERS

Irene was paid to play in the 1920s. Tere and Raquel signed as professionals in 2017

LIGA F

Irene Ferreras leaves Granada after equalling the club’s Liga F points record

Temwa Chawinga during an NWSL match with Kansas City Current.

TOURNAMENTS

Temwa Chawinga won back-to-back NWSL MVP awards. Now she will play in Malawi’s first WAFCON

Kerolin Nicoli representing the Brazil women's national football team.

LIGA F

Kerolin came to Madrid to start over. Two years later, she was named NWSL MVP

Real Madrid Women during a Champions League fixture.

LIGA F

Real Madrid rebuild their spine in pursuit of the title that still eludes them

Badalona

LIGA F

Lauri spent nine years chasing Granada’s return to the top flight. At 36, she starts again in Badalona

Logroño

LIGA F

Valentina Donolato lifted the first women’s Scudetto in AC Milan’s academy history. Now she starts again in Logroño

The South Africa women's national team (Banyana Banyana), 2022 champions and Group B favourites.

TOURNAMENTS

South Africa aim to reclaim the crown in a group with no clear second favourite

Jenni Hermoso during her spell at Atlético Madrid.

PLAYERS

Spanish football still has unfinished business with Jenni Hermoso

Amanda Sampedro at the Alcalá de Henares training ground during the presentation of the new coaching staff.

LIGA F

David González and Amanda Sampedro, two ways of rebuilding Atlético

Grassroots women’s football in Kilifi county, Kenya — one of Group A’s four national teams.

TOURNAMENTS

Morocco can no longer settle for another final

TOURNAMENTS

The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations that changed the rules after qualifying ended

TOURNAMENTS

What Africa is playing for: four direct places at Brazil 2027

LIGA F

Millions can build a league. They can also disappear into it

PLAYERS

Silvia Lloris’s heart broke too

LIGA F

€55 million and an eight-year-old girl: what Liga F’s agreement with Gasol16 aims to change

LIGA F

Liga F votes on Gasol16's 55 million euros: what we know and what remains unexplained

SPAIN

Spain to the rhythm of Rosalía

PLAYERS

Ainhoa Marín returns to Zubieta the long way round

PLAYERS

Her team went down, she didn't: Aitana Zumárraga stays in Liga F

LIGA F

Before the 55 Million: How Liga F Built Its Own Value

Screenshot of a Facebook post with user details blurred to protect privacy.

VOICE

It's not how they play that bothers them. It's that they play at all.

VOICE

No Shortage of Coaches. A Shortage of Opportunities.

Pau Gasol receives the Great Cross of the Royal Order of Sports Merit from the Government of Spain.

LIGA F

The 'Gasol Effect' in Liga F: Why 55 Million is Only the Tip of the Iceberg

Emma Hayes during a match with the United States Women's National Team (USWNT).

VOICE

The One-Way Bridge

PIONEERS

The women's World Cup that filled the Azteca and vanished from history

Vicky López, playing for FC Barcelona in the Champions League (March 2024).

PLAYERS

Vicky López is no longer going to be anything

Marta Díaz de Lope, clapperboard in hand, with the cast of 'Pioneras. Solo querían jugar' during filming.

PIONEERS

Marta Díaz de Lope: "Pioneras has helped me reconnect with the girl who had to give up football"

AI-generated illustration recreating traditional male football player stickers.

VOICE

Twenty stickers, not one girl

Spain 4 England 0

SPAIN

Spain 4-0 England: The night when math was unnecessary

VOICE

The half-truth of the two goals

YOUTH

A stripper at the youth team's party: what the Bonrepòs case exposed about grassroots football

Barcelona

TEAMS

Barça Femení's mid-block: how counter-pressing strangles the build-up in Europe

Ona Batlle warming up before a Champions League match with FC Barcelona.

PLAYERS

The inverted full-back factor: how Ona Batlle opens passing lanes in the final third

Real Sociedad

TEAMS

The battle for Europe: how Real Sociedad conquered third place

Real Madrid

TEAMS

Real Madrid's back-three build-up: the dilemma of the slow transition

Lauren James during an international match with England in 2022.

WOMEN'S SUPER LEAGUE

Lauren James and the evolution of the modern winger: power, pause and penetration at Chelsea

Mayra Ramírez during a Colombia national team training camp in 2023.

WOMEN'S SUPER LEAGUE

Mayra Ramírez: the target forward clearing paths at Chelsea

Official poster of 'Pioneras. Solo querían jugar'.

PIONEERS

Pioneras: before football looked at them, they were already playing

PLAYERS

Frankfurt and PSG meet again, eleven years after a final decided in the 92nd minute

Latest stories

Barcelona vs Costa Adeje Tenerife: champions host last season's fourth-placed side

Real Madrid vs Atlético: a derby to open the Liga F season

Alavés vs Valencia: the two promoted sides meet again in Liga F

Athletic vs Badalona: a new era begins at Lezama

Madrid CFF vs Granada: two rebuilt squads begin a new Liga F season

Eibar vs Espanyol: only three points separated the two sides last season

Sevilla return to Riazor after a 4-0 win, but this is a different Dépor

Real Sociedad vs Logroño: Liga F begins in Zubieta

Servette arrive from the scene of Sparta's impossible comeback

St. Pölten lost 5-0 to Juventus; eight months later, only six of the 16 remain

The Kansas City model reaches Eindhoven with a double and six straight wins

Czarni have already played seven games; Leuven are still piecing together a new side

Wolfsburg have changed the team, not the obligation

Two champions, the same 8-2 record and a door only Brann have opened

Real Sociedad 2026/27: Champions League football demands a new source of goals

Chelsea open their season in a qualifier for the first time in six years, against a side that has not lost since July

Real Madrid open their season at a training ground, without their captain, against an Ajax side already four wins deep

Spain call up 18 Liga F players for the U20 World Cup, two days before the league starts

China scored 14 and conceded none against Real Madrid, Bayern and Manchester City

FC Barcelona 2026/27: rebuilding from the summit

Costa Adeje Tenerife 2026/27: life after Natalia Ramos

Valencia test their Liga F return with Champions League looming for PSG

Sevilla end pre-season against Alexia and Mapi’s London City

Eibar defend the cup against the Real Sociedad side that won both derbies

Real Madrid run out of rehearsals

Badalona head to Espanyol after scoring four goals three games running

Athletic are yet to score this pre-season as seven-goal Alavés await in the EH Kopa

Rose Lavelle learnt to play outside the crowd

Barcelona visit the English champions: kick-off time and how to watch the Manchester City friendly

Costa Adeje Tenerife v Atlético: kick-off time and how to watch the Trofeo Teide final for free

Real Madrid and Real Sociedad take youth teams to Shanghai: fixtures for the first women's Future Star Cup

Kalu Chinyere stays in Liga F after joining Badalona from relegated Levante

Chelsea finished third after six straight league titles. Their competitive season starts against Real Sociedad

Ajax lost five pillars. They will host Real Madrid with six debutants and four matches behind them

Real Madrid must overcome Ajax; Real Sociedad will face Chelsea for a league phase place

Marina Rupérez has moved up a division every season. At 17, she is already in Segunda Federación

Real Madrid and Real Sociedad to learn their final hurdle before the league phase

Raiderlín Carrasco arrived in Spain with two dreams. Four years later, both are still alive

Málaga have kept 16 players; Betis have released 16

Six teams, two starting points: how the Copa Andalucía works

Mapi Vilas did not retire. She found another kind of football

Antônia Silva leaves Real Madrid and returns to Brazil after seven years

Natalia Ramos joins Liverpool after playing more minutes than any other Liga F player last season

Barcelona sign Josephine Lamp before her senior debut

Andrea Falcón retires at 29 after two seasons without playing

Logroño United have more Argentines than the other 15 clubs combined

Athletic estimate Gasol16 deal could reduce clubs’ revenue by more than €100m

Madrid CFF start again: youth at the heart of a rebuild after eleven departures

European boycott of FIFA threatens September's Under-20 Women's World Cup

Kate Taylor was vice-captain at 18. At 22, she led New Zealand to World Cup qualification

Alavés sign Sarah Brasero on loan after her first season at West Ham

Débora Bebê returned to under-20 football after becoming a top scorer — and worked her way to the top flight

Cacereño enter a new era without changing their coach

Liga F is back in training: the essentials from a summer that is far from over

The new Barça starts at the back: four defenders aged 21 or under for a new era

Irene was paid to play in the 1920s. Tere and Raquel signed as professionals in 2017

Irene Ferreras leaves Granada after equalling the club’s Liga F points record

Temwa Chawinga won back-to-back NWSL MVP awards. Now she will play in Malawi’s first WAFCON

Kerolin came to Madrid to start over. Two years later, she was named NWSL MVP

Real Madrid rebuild their spine in pursuit of the title that still eludes them

Lauri spent nine years chasing Granada’s return to the top flight. At 36, she starts again in Badalona

Valentina Donolato lifted the first women’s Scudetto in AC Milan’s academy history. Now she starts again in Logroño

South Africa aim to reclaim the crown in a group with no clear second favourite

Spanish football still has unfinished business with Jenni Hermoso

David González and Amanda Sampedro, two ways of rebuilding Atlético

Morocco can no longer settle for another final

The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations that changed the rules after qualifying ended

What Africa is playing for: four direct places at Brazil 2027

Millions can build a league. They can also disappear into it

Silvia Lloris’s heart broke too

€55 million and an eight-year-old girl: what Liga F’s agreement with Gasol16 aims to change

Liga F votes on Gasol16's 55 million euros: what we know and what remains unexplained

Spain to the rhythm of Rosalía

Ainhoa Marín returns to Zubieta the long way round

Her team went down, she didn't: Aitana Zumárraga stays in Liga F

Before the 55 Million: How Liga F Built Its Own Value

It's not how they play that bothers them. It's that they play at all.

No Shortage of Coaches. A Shortage of Opportunities.