Popular WSL fantasy football app ‘Ariel Fantasy’ announces its shutting down.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
The most popular fantasy football app in the Women’s Super League<\/a> known as ‘Ariel Fantasy’ is set to shut down at the end of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n Co-founders Dani Gon\u00e7alves and Jimmy launched the app in 2023 after seeing a gap for a fantasy football league designed specifcally for women’s football.<\/p>\n The app was one of several inspired by the success of the Lionesses at EURO 2022 and since its inception has reached more than 30,000 active football managers.<\/p>\n It was announced on their website <\/a>that the app would not be returning next season due to difficulties with funding and sustaining it as an unofficial platform.<\/p>\n “Of course, the team and I are gutted. We genuinely love this game and this community,” Dani said.<\/p>\n “However, after putting in all the time and effort to make it exist, we realised it also needed to sustain itself financially.<\/p>\n “We’ve also found that brands have been hesitant to work with an unofficial game, giving us even less options.<\/p>\n “It’s never sat right with me personally how much hard work it is to be a fan of women’s football, or how much of it gets treated like a charity when it delivers great value and should be treated as such.<\/p>\n – England, Arsenal star Chloe Kelly honoured with special edition Barbie doll<\/a> “I know that the industry is still in its infancy and things will get better as we continue to invest, but it bothers me how so much in men’s football is a given and in women’s football a lot is still a question.<\/p>\n “I wanted our fantasy game to be a given.<\/p>\n “No matter if you’ve been a fan for one year or 10 years, I wanted this game to be a fun experience to bring you closer to the league and to one another, without any barriers of cost or quality.”<\/p>\n Manchester City currently sit eight points clear at the top of the WSL table and are on course to win their first title in a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Popular WSL fantasy football app ‘Ariel Fantasy’ announces its shutting down.\u00a0Getty The most popular fantasy football app in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-533619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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