Women's football in Israel is gaining popularity but female players often play abroad to improve their skills.

[1] Some of the barriers that prevent association football from growing include prejudice against women for playing association football.

As in any competitive sports field, lack of transparency is always a big barrier on its own and creates a hidden competition among the athletes.

Israeli women's football suffers from years of neglect from the authorities and was always the last in terms of priority.

The main effort to improve and establish a future for this sport was in the hand of the managers and private people that usually were struggling alone to collect budget to create youth teams in the different clubs in order to create a future generation.