About FemGol
FemGol is an independent media outlet dedicated to women’s football.
We cover Liga F, national teams, international football and the academy game, but we also look beyond the scoreline: the journeys of the people involved, the history of the sport, the inequalities that remain and the stories that rarely receive attention.
FemGol began with a simple conviction: women’s football deserves to be covered with accuracy, context and journalistic ambition. Not as a curiosity, an institutional obligation or a secondary section, but as an essential part of football.
We do not want to limit ourselves to reproducing press releases or chasing every controversy of the day. We want to explain what is happening, verify the facts, listen to the people involved and build a record that does not disappear when the match ends.
FemGol is a young, independent publication still being built. We do not belong to any club, competition, agency or media group. That independence allows us to decide which stories deserve attention and how they should be told.
Our commitment is straightforward: not to invent, not to exaggerate and not to treat readers as though they cannot distinguish information from noise.
Why FemGol exists
For too long, women’s football was ignored, reduced to a brief mention or treated as a lesser version of another sport.
That is changing, but greater attention does not always produce better coverage. There is still a lack of context, consistent reporting, accessible archives and statistics, and stories that explain where each team, player and competition came from.
FemGol was created to occupy part of that space.
We want to follow the biggest matches, but also the youth categories. Report transfers, but explain what they mean. Write about the stars without forgetting those who played when hardly anyone was watching. Celebrate progress without ignoring what still needs to change.
Because a country, a club and a fanbase cannot fit into one team.
Manifesto: Mea culpa
FemGol also emerged from a personal process of learning.
Its founder spent many years viewing women’s football from a distance and sharing some of the prejudices that kept it away from the mainstream media and much of the football public for decades.
Acknowledging that is part of the origin of this project.
FemGol’s founding manifesto describes that journey, the need to apologise and the decision to change channels without looking away again.
The newsroom
José Mera Cuevas
Founder and editorFounder and editor of FemGol. A lifelong football supporter, he came to the women’s game after spending many years looking elsewhere. FemGol grew from that change in perspective and from the belief that too many stories still deserve to be told better.
Responsibility: He oversees the publication’s editorial direction, research, publishing and development.
Editorial Team · FemGol
Collective bylineFemGol uses this byline for news, coverage and articles produced as editorial work by the publication, particularly when a piece is not a personal column or the work of an individual contributor.
Responsibility: It is not intended to conceal authorship or create the appearance of a newsroom that does not exist. It distinguishes the publication’s collective reporting from articles personally signed by the editor or by present and future contributors.
Contribute to FemGol
FemGol is open to new voices.
We welcome proposals about women’s football that provide information, context or a distinctive perspective: reports, profiles, analysis, photography, data, history, grassroots football, supporters’ experiences and stories that rarely find space elsewhere.
We are looking for rigorous, well-researched work that treats its subjects with respect. Professional journalism experience is not required, but proposals should have a clear story, reliable sources and a willingness to develop the piece according to editorial standards.
Clubs, players, coaches, families, associations, researchers and anyone who knows of a story worth hearing are also welcome to contact us.