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Women's Super League to be shown on the BBC
BBC Two will air four FA Women's Super League programmes next season, providing goal round-ups, highlights, features and previews of England's World Cup qualifiers.
The BBC Sport website will also feature a weekly goals round-up throughout the Women's Super League season.
It will be the first WSL coverage to be shown on terrestrial television.
The Football Association's Kelly Simmons said: "This can be a watershed moment for the game in England."
Women's football on the BBC
- FA Cup final preview programme, BBC Two, 20 May.
- Women's FA Cup final, BBC Two, 26 May.
- European Women's Football Championships preview show, BBC Two, 8 July
- European Championships, BBC Three, 10-28 July, (final on BBC Two)
- FA Women's Super League programmes - BBC Two
- World Cup qualifying games - BBC Three
The weekly goals round-up will also be shown on the BBC News Channel as part of Friday's Sportsday.
Simmons, the FA's director of national game and women's football, added: "Our elite football league being shown consistently on terrestrial television will enable us to take the game to a wider audience and engage new fans in the sport and, hopefully, inspire many more young girls to play the game."
In addition, BBC Two will air two further shows previewing women's football.
On 20 May Jacqui Oatley will look at the women's FA Cup final, ahead of live BBC Two coverage of the game on 26 May.
A second programme on 8 July looks ahead to the European Championships which can be watched on BBC Three and BBC Two.
From autumn 2013, the BBC will also show England's World Cup qualifiers for the tournament in Canada in 2015.
BBC director of sport Barbara Slater said: "We're delighted to be increasing our coverage of women's football across all of our platforms. We look forward to bringing our audiences a great range of women's football over the coming months."
The women's game is growing in the UK and hopes are high for England's women in the tournament in Sweden. England lost 6-2 to seven-time winners Germany in the final four years ago.
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Comment number 330.
eg198610th March 2013 - 14:13
I think that people complaining about this should really look at the facts. Women's football is the fastest growing participation and viewer sport in the country. viewer ratings for top flight Women's football increased by 600% in 2 years (before the Olympics), which is not a trend that shows any sign of a plateauing. so it could actually be a pretty shrewd move by the BBC...
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Boggy Marsh10th March 2013 - 10:15
@328 & anyone else - Answer the question I asked at 323
What would you say as a father to your daughter's requests ?
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v-n-n-n-n9th March 2013 - 20:07
323 - We're only equal in status, not ability. There's things you're better at than I am and vice versa, but that doesn't balance out the books. At the end of the day, we're still plebs.
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X RAY9th March 2013 - 20:03
Why not put womens football on sky instead of scottish mens,about the same level and the women wud be proud to represent GB! But seriousley leagues 1&2& championship should get more tv coverage in England before womens & scottish football,maybe start a sky sports scotland.
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WNTFan9th March 2013 - 20:02
Dear England,
Yes, please continue to argue about how much women footballers should get paid and how much tv time they should get while the German ladies kick your a--. Soon the French will be doing the same. Your team isn't even a professional team.
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