Women’s Super League: Players with injuries could be sacked after three months

Just three months after suffering an injury, Women’s Super League players could be sacked by their clubs.

The clause, included in standard contracts issued by the Football Association to all WSL players, was published by Danish newspaper Politiken.

The FA states that the clause is in place to meet the “unique demands” of the English game. as the WSL is “Europe’s only fully-professional league.”

Because of this, the English football’s governing body had to introduce “bespoke measures to support the sustainability of elite-level women’s football in England”.

Players in the Premier League could be sacked if they are injured for 18 out of 20 months, with six to 12 months’ notice.

However, according to the Women’s Football Contract clause, where a player is deemed to have suffered a long term injury in the WSL, “the Club shall be entitled to terminate this Contract by giving three months written notice to the Player.”

England and Arsenal midfielder Jordan Nobbs is the latest in a long of women’s footballers to suffer an ACL injury which usually has a recovery time of six to nine months.

Due to the clause in her contract, she could be sacked from her position with three-months’ notice but there is no reason to believe that Arsenal will activate this clause.

No WSL club has activated the clause yet.

The Women’s Football Contract clause. Photo: Politiken

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