All you need to know about World Sevens football

World Sevens Football (W7F) is a professional women’s seven-a-side competition featuring eight clubs in a grand slam series. The third edition takes place at Brentford’s Gtech Community Stadium in London from 28 to 30 May. Bayern Munich won the inaugural event in May 2025 in Estoril, Portugal, and San Diego Wave won the next event in December 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, US. The participating clubs are Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Leicester City, London City Lionesses, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, and West Ham United. Teams play on half-size grass pitches, with matches lasting 30 minutes in two 15-minute halves. Teams are split into two groups for round-robin play, with the top two advancing to semi-finals, followed by a third-place match and final. Squads can include up to 14 players, with unlimited rolling substitutions. The prize pool for this edition is $1.5m, with $500,000 for the winners and $250,000 for runners-up, and half of top-four prize money contractually allocated to competing players and staff.

"The eight women's clubs taking part are Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Leicester City, London City Lionesses, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United. Each team will play between three and five matches, on grass pitches half the size of the usual 11-a-side pitch. Each match will be played over 30 minutes, in two 15-minute halves."

"The eight teams will be split into two groups, playing in a round-robin format over the first two days. Chelsea, Everton, Leciester and London City Lionesses form Group 1, while Aston Villa, Manchester United, Spurs and West Ham make up Group 2. The top two clubs in each group will advance to the semi-finals, which will be followed by a third-place match and the final."

"Teams will have up to 14 players in their squads, with unlimited rolling substitutions allowed. The tournament was co-founded by American entrepreneurs Jennifer Mackesy and Justin Fishkin. Mackesy has a minority stake in Chelsea Women and is co-owner of NWSL club Gotham FC."

"While previous events in Estoril and Fort Lauderdale provided a prize money pool of $5m (3.76m) spread among its eight teams, this year's prize pot will be lower, at $1.5m (1.1m). The winner will receive $500,000 (372,000), with $250,000 (186,000) for the runners-up. Teams finishing in the top four have their prize money split evenly, with half of it contractually bound to go to competing players and staff, and the rest distributed as the club chooses."

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