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Evening Standard
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Vicky Jessop

It's coming home: How the women's game finally made it to Football Manager

Chloe Woolaway is Women’s Football Research Coordinator at Sports Interactive - (Sports Interactive)

The past five years have been stellar ones for women’s football. Four years ago, the women’s England squad won the Euros – a feat they repeated this summer – launching the profile of the game into the stratosphere.

Names like Lucy Bronze and Chloe Kelly are now household ones, while girls are getting into the game in record numbers. And yet, in all that time, the women’s game has not featured in Football Manager. Perhaps that’s not a surprise, when you consider that the vast majority of the game’s players are men.

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