Let Girls Play!

As part of the FA’s #LetGirlsPlay Biggest Ever Football Session AND to help celebrate International Women’s Day, CTS had Girls Only Football at lunchtime play this Thursday!

Just for this week, we wanted to encourage more girls to take part in football by giving them the opportunity to play without the boys on Thursday during their lunchtime.

Why?

We all know that women and girls can play amazing football because we saw the England Women’s team, The Lionesses, win at the Euros 2022. But unfortunately girls still don’t have the same opportunities to play football as boys. Many boys play football from a very young age, almost before they can walk! But girls are not usually encouraged in the same way. This means they have had less chances to ‘get good’!

Did you know?

• The first games of football were first played 900 years ago? Only men played though.
• Women did not play until 140 years ago, in 1881.
• The FA banned women from playing football from 1921 for fifty years because they thought it wasn’t appropriate for them to play.
• Women weren’t allowed to play in a league until 1971.
• Women only started playing professional football in 2009.
• Since The Lionesses won in 2022, 68000 more girls have started playing football.
• Now, over 845,000 girls play regular football in the UK.

So, on Thursday lunchtime, we gave girls an extra opportunity to ‘get good’ … it was wonderful to see over half the girls in each year group playing the games – who knows where it will lead?!