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The FA Women and Girls' Football Week

The FA Women and Girls Football Week returns this week! This year the FA are running two weeks - one in April and one in October.

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Kelly Simmons, FA director of football participation and development, said: “Following the success of last year’s event it was decided that we could have an even bigger impact on participation levels by running two weeks.

“We hope that if more groups put these sessions on that it won’t just encourage women and girls to start playing football, but they will carry on playing regularly.

“2015 was a landmark year for women’s football and there’s no doubt that big occasions such as the SSE Women’s FA Cup Final at Wembley and the Lionesses achievements at the World Cup had a big impact on inspiring more girls to play.

“We are confident, along with our partners, that even more progress will be made this year and we encourage as many organisations as possible to sign up and help us to get more females playing football.”

Football is the largest female team sport in England with more than 2.89 million players. There are more than 5,900 women’s and girls’ teams playing affiliated club football.

The RNFA have joined forces with Hampshire FA and the University of Portsmouth to support this week by running a series of events to encourage women to play football, these are detailed below. Why not join in?

Activity: Walking Football Session

Date: Monday 25th April

Times: 7 - 8pm

Venue: HMS Temeraire, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth, PO1 2HB

Age: 30+

Cost: £1 Civilians & FREE to military personnel

Activity: Portsmouth Women's 6-a-side Cup

Date: Tuesday 26th April

Times: 6pm - 9.30pm

Venue: HMS Temeraire, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth, PO1 2HB

Age: 16+

Cost: £15 (civilians) & £10 (military) - price per team