How many women footballers are gay

This is a list of LGBTQ+ women's association footballers, including non-heterosexual female footballers (or those who have openly been in a same-sex relationship) as well as transgender and non-binary footballers of any gender who have played for a women's association football team at the level specified.

This list is designed to help you do exactly that. The way football works in the UK is that the top team in the league moves up and the bottom team moves down. Since I’m only tracking the highest bracket, you’ll find that the teams do move around a bit from year to year.

There are players in the squads for the UEFA Women’s Euro in Switzerland. More than a fifth are publicly out as LGBTQ.

Within the 23 Lionesses recently confirmed to be officially making up the England Women’s football team heading to the UEFA Women’s Euro , there are a number of LGBTQ+ footy stars. After lifting the trophy in , Sarina Wiegman has assembled her team, who will travel to Switzerland next month.