This session examines sustainable investment in women’s sport, weighing fast growth against long-term independence.
It explores affiliated vs non-affiliated teams, multi-club and multisport models, minority ownership and private equity while assessing trade-offs between resource leverage, brand alignment, autonomy and financial resilience.
Panellists highlight pitfalls, successes and lessons from real-world examples, asking how investment can support professionalisation, athlete pay, infrastructure and visibility without fostering dependency or undermining long-term ecosystem stability.