On November 22, the Saudi Football Federation will launch its 16-team Women’s Football Championship. An unprecedented project which constitutes a certain advance for Saudi women, authorized to enter a football stadium to attend a match, only since January 2018. A championship which will take place in two stages with a first phase in a regional league then a final phase at the start of 2022.
In 2017, Yasser al-Misehal, the president of the Saudi Federation, decided to launch, in this capacity, a support program for women’s football. A desire shared by Mohammed ben Salman, the Saudi Crown Prince, who has been reforming the Saudi state for several months at the economic and social level. From this perspective, the one we nicknamed MBS and who recently took over Newcastle is part of a logic of modernization and this new project is not insignificant in this desire to improve the image of Arabia. Arabia internationally.
