‘You have to laugh or you’d cry’: how fixture list chaos blights women’s football

Stadium sharing, broadcast picks and fun runs can all cause turmoil in upper echelons of women’s game, while clubs worry attendances may fall as a result

Waiting for men’s broadcast picks, dodging local fun runs and even having to avoid clashing with nearby comedy gigs: welcome to the quagmire of trying to arrange the Women’s Super League and WSL 2 schedule.

The fixture list is often a bone of contention for supporters, and organisers face a painstaking task in trying to organise games in venues where other teams get first dibs.