The Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF) and Kick It Out (KIO) are currently running a survey aimed at match-going female fans, to help us understand more about why they love football, what it’s like to attend matches in a predominantly male environment and whether there are any ways in which more women could be encouraged into stadiums.
Whilst there is undoubtedly an increase in the number of women going to watch men’s football (as borne out by recent surveys of Premier League and Football League fans), there remains very little research available on their actual experiences of attending the match or being a football fan in general.
The FSF has written to the Foxes Trust asking for our help in promoting this survey to as wide a female audience as possible , the survey is available here, we encourage any City female fans to take a few minutes to complete the survey which is open until January 2015.
The information gathered through the survey will be pulled together in a report (which the FSF will use to influence their work and make some practical recommendations going forward).
As part of this research the FSF and KIO held a panel discussion on Monday 8th December for female football fans to share their experiences of following the men's game from the Premier League to non-league.