Danny Jordaan says a 2019 women’s soccer league is on the cards
The South African Football Association’s (Safa) national executive committee (NEC) has endorsed a motion for the formation of a national women’s league in 2019. Safa president Danny Jordaan made the announcement on Tuesday while speaking on the sidelines of a media conference in Soweto, to reaffirm the co-operation agreement between the mother body and La Liga. "When we started in 2012‚ we had 200,000 women footballers in the country‚" said Jordaan. "Today we have about 450,000 and we want to get this number to up to 1-million. Women are the majority in this country‚ so women’s sport is one of the key areas where we need growth. "It is for this reason that in 2019 we want to have a national league for women’s football where they will play like the Professional Soccer League and National First Division," Jordaan said. "I am not calling it a professional league just yet but a national league, because whether it becomes professional or not it will depend on the support it is going to g...
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