“To prepare for this epochal change, the Board of Directors of the Women’s Football Division, thanks to the contribution of the various internal working groups that directly involve the Serie A and Serie B clubs and to the collaboration with the LND, has proposed new formats for the national championships. Serie A, Serie B and Serie C, approved by the Federal Council on 9 June. These changes were deemed necessary for the sustainability of our entire system and to increase its level of competitiveness. Serie C will move to 3 groups of 14 teams as early as September, while to arrive at the format that will be inaugurated in the 22/23 season and which includes a Serie A with 10 teams and a Serie B with 16, the next elite championship with three relegations will require our teams to structure themselves in the best possible way to guarantee their stay in the top flight. The changes will also affect Serie B, given that only one team will get the promotion ».
Change of format, therefore, expected for the first season of professionalism and great potential for the clubs and for the players. Above all, the possibility of losing the players to zero will be avoided, as happened this year at Juventus with the farewell of Aurora Galli, called to England by Everton. The Juventus club was unable to do anything to keep the blue midfielder due to the free movement of workers abroad. The sporting regulations, in fact, provide for the restriction only in Italy. When it comes to transfers abroad, the Italian sports system is no longer effective.
«The change in the status of the Serie A athletes from the 22/23 season will guarantee the players adequate health, social security and social security protection, with a regulatory and financial impact on the clubs that will largely finance this innovation. On the other hand, the clubs will be able to avoid the risk of losing their sporting heritage. It has already happened that some prominent athletes are absorbed by foreign markets, a “brain drain on a free transfer” that has a negative impact on our world ».
Thanks to the professionalism and affiliation of women’s teams to men’s clubs, new roles will also be formed within the clubs.
«National licenses, increasingly articulated with the inclusion of professional figures dedicated to women’s football on and off the pitch, regulate admissions to the championships. Specific roles such as that of the General Manager or the Press Officer on the one hand and the Head of the Youth Sector or the Goalkeeper Athletic Trainer on the other, have become mandatory figures. Already today we are discussing and planning further measures for the 22/23 football season, with a shared vision by the clubs which must be given the right time to structure themselves internally ».