FEMALE FOOTBALL WEEK 2025
8 Days of Community, Celebration
and Empowerment
2 - 11 May, 2025
This week, we’re taking time to reflect on a simple but important question: Will she still play?
At Alamein FC, we’re marking Female Football Week with conversations, events, and stories that focus on why girls stay in sport, and what sometimes makes them leave. From sponsor messages of support to leadership panels and player-led videos, it’s a chance to hear directly from the people in our club. As a club built for girls and women, we’re proud to be part of this week, and to share what it means to us.
Read: how Matilda’s star Emily Gielnik helped us launch Female Football Week in a special way.
Watch: this heartfelt collection of messages from our sponsors, direct to our players.
Discover: what Female Football Week truly means to an all-female club like Alamein FC.
Sat 3 May: GAME DAY (NPL teams)
Come and support our NPL players as they take to the pitch to inspire and entertain with Alamein’s signature combination of excellence and integrity. Selected players in each team will wear the Good Human Armband, and parents and supporters are encouraged to wear club colours (blue and red).
U13 NPL: Alamein FC v FC Bulleen Lions, 12.15pm, Veneto Club Bulleen
U15 NPL: Alamein FC v FC Bulleen Lions, 1pm, Veneto Club Bulleen
U17 NPL: Alamein FC v FC Bulleen Lions, 2.30pm, Veneto Club Bulleen
U20 NPL: Alamein v Brunswick Juventus FC, 12.30pm, Dorothy Laver Reserve West (home)
Senior NPLW: Alamein v Brunswick Juventus FC, 3pm, Dorothy Laver Reserve West (home)
Sun 4 May: GAME DAY (Development teams)
Now that the season has started for our Development and Pre-NPL teams, your support would mean the world to them so we encourage you to come and cheer them on today. These players are on the pathway to playing NPL and their dedication and hard work is inspirational.
Selected players in each team will wear the Good Human Armband, and parents and supporters are encouraged to wear club colours (blue and red).
U12 Development (team 1): Alamein v Manningham United FC, 10.10am, Timber Ridge Reserve (Doncaster)
U12 Development (team 2): Alamein v Boorondara Eagles FC, 10.15am, Macleay Park (North Balwyn)
U15 Development: Alamein FC v Southern United FC, 11.20am, Dorothy Laver Reserve West (home game)
SOCIAL MEDIA EVENTS
Throughout the week we’ll continue supporting and celebrating girls and women in soccer - not just Alamein players but all players - with some very special events on Instagram (@alameinfc).
Mon 5 May:
VIDEO “WE STAND WITH HER”
Get ready for something special! Alamein FC’s amazing sponsors have come together to share powerful, heartfelt messages of support for girls in the game.
This inspiring video campaign highlights Alamein’s leadership in championing women’s football, and it’s something you won’t want to miss. Keep an eye on our socials today.
Thurs 8 May:
“WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP” LIVE PANEL
Join us on Instagram for a live panel with Alamein FC’s NPLW Captain Estelle Bourgios, and Under 13s Coach and NPLW player Amy Crawford.
They’ll discuss female leadership in football, challenges, confidence, and other topics.
Send your questions in to them ahead of time, or chat with them live.
Weds 7 May:
VIDEO “WILL SHE STILL PLAY?”
The video at the heart of our Female Football Week celebrations. Our Under 12 and Under 15 Development players share what football means to them (and what might make them stop playing) in this honest, hopeful video tribute to girls in sport for Female Football Week.
With girls in Australia twice as likely as boys to drop out of sport by age 17, these voices remind us why it matters that she keeps playing.
Sun 11 May:
MOTHER’S DAY CELEBRATION
It wouldn’t be a celebration of Female Football without recognising the female football mums (and mother-like figures) who support our players day in day out, behind the scenes.
We’ll celebrate these “hidden” female footballers by bringing them onto the field with the players for a photograph, and treating them to baked goods.
