Just as the Women’s Super League (WSL) is figuring out how to decouple from the English FA and chart a new, independent future, Tottenham Hotspur owner Daniel Levy has reportedly floated his own idea in discussions with other owners: the WSL should become closed competition without promotion or relegation.
Levy drew the ire of the women’s football community in reportedly suggesting that the Women’s Super League (WSL) should be a closed competition, and his comments couldn’t come at a more frustrating time. There are two working groups — one set up by the English FA, the other by the British Government — tasked with reviewing the WSL’s structure and developing ambitious plans for the future. Yet Levy, along with several other executives, are discussing their own ideas as to how the women’s game ought to be structured.
Never intending to be a long-term gatekeeper for the Women’s Super League, the plan is for the FA to relinquish responsibility for the top two tiers of women’s football in England. What that will actually look like for the WSL and Women’s Championship is unknown for now, with…
