Mandatory grassroots funding programmes for women’s football will be developed by FIFA for all its member associations in a bid to stop female participants leaving the game.

The plan will be part of a new women’s football development strategy that will be published by 2017, which in turn forms part of the governing body’s Vision of the Future document it has published following the election of president Gianni Infantino, and the appointment of Fatma Samoura as secretary general.

Aside from grassroots investment, the strategy will make the case for the appointment of a chief of women’s football, who will oversee the newly-established Women’s Football Division, and the creation of a women’s football-specific commercial programme.

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