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‘You have to laugh or you’d cry’: how fixture list chaos blights women’s football

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 1 May 2026

Stadium sharing, broadcast picks and fun runs can all cause turmoil in upper echelons of women’s game, while clubs worry attendances may fall as a result

Waiting for men’s broadcast picks, dodging local fun runs and even having to avoid clashing with nearby comedy gigs: welcome to the quagmire of trying to arrange the Women’s Super League and WSL 2 schedule.

The fixture list is often a bone of contention for supporters, and organisers face a painstaking task in trying to organise games in venues where other teams get first dibs.