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FIFA maternity regulations for women players

FIFA regulations introduced in 2021 and later updated, which FIFPRO says have contributed to a decline in parenthood being cited as a reason for leaving football.

FIFA maternity regulations for women players are rules introduced in 2021 and updated two years later. They address maternity in professional football, though the available information does not specify their individual provisions.

FIFPRO has credited the regulations in part with a decline in players citing parenthood as a reason they might leave football early. In a survey cited in a recent report, nearly half of respondents considering leaving in 2017 named wanting a family; the figure was 19% in the later survey. FIFPRO described this as evidence that targeted regulatory intervention can help, but the survey does not establish that the regulations alone caused the change.

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