{"id":36529,"date":"2025-03-20T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/global-womens-seven-a-side-football-series-launched-with-100m-investment\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:10:00","slug":"global-womens-seven-a-side-football-series-launched-with-100m-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/global-womens-seven-a-side-football-series-launched-with-100m-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Global women\u2019s seven-a-side football series launched with $100m investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\u2018This is going to be a world-class event for these players\u2019<\/li>\n<li>First eight-team event set to take place in Lisbon in May<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A lucrative new seven-a-side global women\u2019s football series has been announced with the first event set to take place in Portugal from 21-23 May. The new competition has been named the \u2018World Sevens Football\u2019 and it is understood there is a commitment to invest $100m (\u00a377m) in the series over a five-year period.<\/p>\n<p>The new series of invitational \u201cgrand slam\u201d tournaments, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/mar\/14\/top-womens-clubs-to-play-in-lucrative-seven-a-side-tournament-in-buildup-to-wcl-final\">first reported by the Guardian<\/a>, will feature $5m prize money per event. It is funded by investment from the US-based philanthropist Jennifer Mackesy, co-owner of the NWSL club Gotham FC, and will be broadcast live by the streaming platform DAZN.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/mar\/20\/global-womens-seven-a-side-series-launch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018This is going to be a world-class event for these players\u2019 First eight-team event set to take place in Lisbon in May A lucrative new seven-a-side global women\u2019s football series has been announced with the first event set to take place in Portugal from 21-23 May. The new competition has been named the \u2018World Sevens &#8230; <a title=\"Global women\u2019s seven-a-side football series launched with $100m investment\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/global-womens-seven-a-side-football-series-launched-with-100m-investment\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Global women\u2019s seven-a-side football series launched with $100m investment\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}