Project description
Developing women’s football through fan engagement
Football is the most popular sport in Europe and an important part of global mass culture. In spite of women’s football having gained much attention and recognition over the past decades, it still fails to garner the same popular support that men's football enjoys, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made it financially even more difficult. The EU-funded FEDev-WF project will reverse this trend by building commercial value of the game through the development of a high-potential fan engagement practice able to generate needed income. This will be achieved through a pioneering interdisciplinary, comparative, participatory approach involving both academia and industry contributors, elaborated in two secondments in renowned European sports marketing companies.
Objective
European women’s football has come a long way in recent years, yet it is still considerably underdeveloped. Football being one of the most revered forms of popular culture in Europe offers a unique window into evolution of roles and representation of achievements of women, but despite significant strides in recent years the women’s game is still far behind. Fewer sponsorship deals, lower stadium attendance and commercial value were a few of the problems with which women’s football struggled, even before the Covid-19 outbreak. Now, the sustainable survival of the game is under threat. In both industry and academia there is a gap in attention to women’s football fandom, particularly from the organisations’ side, and its potentials for commercial value creation and financial sustainability of the game. Taking the high potential of fandom to generate sustainable income, the present project aims to develop fan engagement practice to increase attendance and commercial value in women’s football. I will employ a novel interdisciplinary, comparative participatory approach involving academia and industry stakeholders, identifying the unique attributes and current state of women’s football fandom and key components of an effective fan engagement framework for teams and associations. The project will be conducted in the context of Ireland and will be hosted by Dublin City University. To learn about fan engaging planning, practices and data analysis in the industry, I will carry out two secondments in two well-known sport marketing companies in Europe. Collectively, the outcomes of this project will provide a novel understanding of gendered perceptions of women’s football in Ireland and Europe, and how fan engagement can be tailored to women’s football for better commercialisation. The findings would help the industry engage fans effectively for the survival of the game, and future research can build up on the ideas and findings in different countries and women’s sports.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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9 Dublin
Ireland
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