Women’s Football missing from Transfermarkt: Why is that?

The interest towards women’s football worldwide is growing fast and yet one of the most popular sites covering the beautiful game Transfermarkt has next to zero coverage of women football competitions. 

Why is that? If Transfermarkt can create useful data for obscure men’s football leagues why they don’t bother to cover women’s football at all? 

Transfermarkt and the lack of women’s football

Transfermarkt was launched in May 2000, almost 24 years ago, in Hamburg, Germany. Since then the website has become one of the main providers of useful data and information for men’s football. It is available in many languages and worldwide. 

Transfermarkt is the go-to site for many football writers and journalists for facts, stats and player/team profile checks. It has an impressive pool of information regarding everything you might need when it comes to men’s football. It even covers in detail such leagues as England’s U18 Premier League, amateur England’s National North/South Leagues, Germany’s many amateur Oberligas and many other obscure men’s football competitions. Cudos for covering those. Still, surely finding relevant information for them must be harder than covering at least some of the main women’s football competitions.

At the same time, over 60,000 fans attend women’s football matches, these days this is a norm for some teams. Yet, somehow Transfermarkt doesn’t have the desire, the resources, or the time to start providing statistical information about women’s football.

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So, without being negative regarding any of their coverage of men’s football we can’t help but wonder why there is no women’s football on Transfermarkt? We’d like to hear them explain why that is. What has been done to correct what we hope is just an oversight? We are also curious how male-dominated is the sports desk covering football at Transfermarkt. 

Can we expect Transfermarkt to start covering women’s football any time soon? 

We are not holding our breath that Transfermarkt will start covering women’s football immediately. Yet, they might be forced to do so soon as the number of consumers searching for such information is growing rapidly. 

Recent research in the UK showed that of the 30 million who watched the Women’s World Cup in the summer of 2023, 43% were female. Not just that but 11.5 million of those didn’t watch any games of the Men’s Qatar World Cup a year earlier. All those 11.5 million viewers are mainly interested in women’s football. 

Similar research in almost all European countries and the USA showed the high percentage of women football being watched by people who normally won’t consider viewing men’s football. 

So, is Transfermarkt a website dedicated ONLY to men’s football? If not when we can see women’s football covered on their platform? 

This is an opinion piece! We don’t intend to attack Transfermarkt in any way but we want to ask the question why and how come there is no women’s football coverage on their platform? Being one of the leading and most trusted sources of information related to football shouldn’t they lead everyone else by example? We still will recommend them for any data check regarding men’s football. We’d love nothing more but to see women’s football easily accessible on their platform too.