There are 100,000 more girls playing regular football than there were five years ago, according to an annual Sport England survey, which also found that secondary school girls are more active than they ever have been since the survey launched.
The Active Lives Children and Young People survey conducted by Sport England found overall that children’s activity levels have recovered to pre-pandemic levels, albeit progress has not been ubiquitous for all groups, as activity levels for children aged seven to nine still lagged 4.5% behind their pre-Covid levels.
But in what arrives as a major positive for women’s sport, the survey revealed that more than 770,000 girls had played football within a formal setting in the week of the survey, in comparison to the 669,000 in 2017-2018.
