FIFA launches women's health, performance project to address the needs of female athletes

The Korean women's football team in action at the 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup in Australia on March 2. [YONHAP]

FIFA launched a women's health and performance project on Monday to fill the void of information and research into the specific needs of female athletes as women's football continues to grow.

The initiative, a series of online modules, provides peer-reviewed research, data and knowledge on 13 topics that impact female athletes, from pregnancy and fertility to recovery and nutrition.

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Currently, only 6 percent of sports science research exclusively focuses on women, according to FIFA. As a result, women are often trained using methods developed for male athletes because of the lack of available information on optimizing female performance.