Labour relations in women's association football

Professional women's association football players have organized to dispute several issues specific to the sport, such as disparities in compensation compared to men's teams; insufficient pay to compete with other women's teams; unfair or exclusionary financial terms of federation business agreements involving the team; a lack of minimum standards in facilities and treatment, especially compared to men's teams in the same federation, league, or club; reports of systemic gender-related abuse of players, including sexual abuse being ignored by league or federation officials; and a lack of benefits specific to women such as paid leave for pregnancy and maternity, and child care coverage.

Disputes have been waged between national team players and football associations, between club players and their teams and leagues, between players and managers, between referees of women's football and their governing organizations, and between players and federations or laws that prevented women from playing or professionalizing the sport.

Women's footballers have also organized their labour in support of causes outside of the sport and aligned themselves with labour unions unrelated to sport, sometimes in pursuit of broader societal goals around resolving gender pay gaps and addressing labour needs specific to women.