NEWCASTLE: Women’s football is rapidly growing in popularity across the world, nowhere more so than in the UK. Following the England women’s team’s victory at the UEFA Women’s Euros last year, female participation in the beautiful game has gone through the roof in the sport’s founding nation.
Until very recently, though, one area lagged behind the incredible progress made in cities like London, Liverpool and Manchester: Newcastle.
But Newcastle United’s majority shareholders, the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, are doing their best to change all of that for the women who currently represent the club and for future generations of female football-playing Geordies.
History was made on Tyneside this week when it was announced that Newcastle United Women are now to be run as a full-time operation for the first time.