Hera we go: the Dutch club hoping to change women’s football landscape This week’s newsletter looks at a historic vote next Monday whether to grant an independent women’s club a licence to compete in the female Eredivisie for the first time ever.
A historic moment awaits for football in the Netherlands on Monday, as the country’s national governing body, the KNVB, puts a highly consequential vote to its members on whether to grant an independent women’s club a licence to compete in the Eredivisie for the first time.
If they get the yes vote they crave, their new club Hera United, based in Amsterdam, will play in the country’s top division next season and stage matches in the city’s historic Olympic Stadium.
As long as the women are part of the men’s club, the focus will always be on the men – so what if we started our own club?”.
“Ajax Women didn’t get a celebration in the square in Amsterdam that is tradition for the men,” she recalls.
