FIFA’s Feminist Foot Soldiers: Looking for Equality in the Women’s Game Approaching the 2023 World Cup in Australia and Aotearoa

In this final chapter of the volume, Haldane explores the notion of equality as it relates to the women’s game by first examining the structure and practice of FIFA, the problems and improvements from the 2015 to the 2019 tournament, and using the host countries of Australia and Aotearoa as context for asking what FIFA will deliver to “be better” for the women’s game. The generic cry for equality, while morally desirable, is often ill-defined and impossible to implement. As we head toward the 2023 tournament and beyond, it is critical to identify what forms of equality are possible, and which forms of inequality we are willing to live with.