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Women's World Cup awarded to Australia and New Zealand

Australia and New Zealand survived a stronger than expected challenge from Colombia to be awarded the right to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Following the withdrawal of Brazil and Japan, the joint southern hemisphere bid was the clear favourite having scored highly in the technical reports.

But there was surprise support for Colombia from the Football Association and...

Football strike - Photo by Jeffrey F Lin

Super League set for September start

The Football Association has provisionally set the date of 5-6 September for the new Women's Super League and Championship season to start.

There were hopes of an earlier resumption after the current campaign was cancelled due to coronavirus, with Chelsea named as champions last week whilst Liverpool were relegated.

However, Kelly Simmons, the FA's director of the women's...