Women, Football and Social Change in Saudi Arabia

Pioneer Players

By: Charlotte Lysa

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Hardcover | 30 October 2025

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This book traces the emergence of womenâs football in Saudi Arabia from the infancy of the grassroots-driven Riyadh Womenâs Football League established in 2007 to the launch of the state-sponsored, official womenâs community football league in 2020.

For a long time, Saudi Arabia had a menâs national football team, but no womenâs team. Until 2018, women did not have access to football stadiums, and before 2020 there was no official womenâs league. On the face of it there were no women in football until top-driven policy reform suddenly turned the situation upside-down. But the story of womenâs football unfolding away from these headlines is a completely different one.

The research in this work is based on fieldwork focused on the Riyadh Womenâs Football League, interviews with women players and the pioneers of womenâs football in Saudi Arabia, amongst others, as well as the authorâs attendance at games and practices, and analysis of social and traditional media and other available documents.
In tracing the developments of womenâs football in Saudi Arabia, Charlotte Lysa offers a ground-breaking social history of contemporary Saudi society and a narrative of change: change within football, change in womenâs roles, and change in the structures of society.

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