We’re all the time searching for methods to assist encourage our small enterprise neighborhood, encourage the following technology of small enterprise house owners and construct our model relevance globally. Soccer is the most well-liked and watched sport on the planet and ladies’s soccer is ascending at a fast price in reputation. The chance to assist gasoline and contribute to this development is very large.

In April 2022 we kicked off a brand new international partnership as a FIFA Ladies’s Soccer Associate and since then we’ve signed a spread of different nationwide and native girls’s soccer partnerships world wide. 

For Xero, that is excess of only a model affiliation. We’re very clear on the chance to encourage, to face for one thing and make a distinction. 

Whereas the ladies’s sport is gaining in reputation, commercially there’s nonetheless some method to go. Soccer golf equipment are most frequently not-for-profit social enterprises and important for constructing the pipeline of expertise within the girls’s sport. Additionally they play an essential social and financial position in communities proper the world over. 

We all know Xero will help drive business success in girls’s soccer main to higher outcomes for girls globally. Whether or not it’s by offering entry to academic sources for monetary administration, or serving to golf equipment join with accountants and bookkeepers. 

Our international partnership with FIFA Ladies’s Soccer

Xero was the second firm to turn into a FIFA Ladies’s Soccer Associate below FIFA’s new business construction which got here into impact in 2023. We made a thought-about resolution to companion on the prime stage of the ladies’s sport as a result of we imagine it’s a chance the place we may each attain our goals and make a distinction. 

As a part of our partnership we’re supporting two FIFA girls’s soccer growth programmes: Capability Constructing for Directors – utilizing Xero’s experience and know-how to help girls’s soccer growth – and Coach Schooling Scholarships – to create simpler pathways for girls to realize teaching {qualifications}. 

Whereas recognising a world platform like FIFA Ladies’s Soccer is a incredible alternative, we all the time knew we needed to take our help for girls’s soccer additional, and do extra in international locations the place we’ve got a presence and important buyer base. 

Teaming up with Lewes F.C. (aka Equality F.C.) within the UK

In July 2022, we signed a multi-year partnership with Lewes F.C., the world’s first gender equal membership, which splits its enjoying funds and sources equally between the boys’s and ladies’s first groups. As a small enterprise in its personal proper, Lewes’ personal aspiration for monetary sustainability we hope will turn into a mannequin for different small soccer golf equipment to assist develop the sport and entice extra women into the game. We work collectively on a spread of initiatives to allow golf equipment throughout England to enhance monetary viability, and work with native small enterprise and accounting and bookkeeping communities. 

Our nationwide partnership with The FA in England

We take big delight in partnering with the Lionesses, and their triumph within the 2022 Euros was a watershed second for the ladies’s sport in England. However there’s an extended method to go, with nearly half (47%) of soccer golf equipment in England stating that they’d profit from help with the monetary administration of their membership. 

By way of our partnerships with the Lionesses and England Soccer we work with The FA Grassroots Staff, County Soccer Associations, and the FA Membership Consultants to supply entry to a complete vary of academic sources for monetary administration. We additionally present a platform for grassroots golf equipment to search out and join with native accountants and bookkeepers. 

Supporting grassroots with New Zealand Soccer

Our 5 yr partnership with New Zealand Soccer, which we introduced on the finish of 2022, will assist Kiwis stability higher numbers off the sphere by means of a membership help programme and create a legacy from the joy of the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup 2023. The membership help programme will set the benchmark for membership requirements nationwide, specializing in elements similar to administration, management, financing, participant growth, and neighborhood engagement. 

Xero’s Higher Numbers program

Along with every of our partnerships Xero gives soccer golf equipment with sources and guides instantly to assist them handle their books in addition to mobilising our neighborhood of accounting and bookkeeping companions with recommendation to assist them assist their native golf equipment. We name this our Higher Numbers Program. 

We’re pleased with what we’ve achieved up to now, and have been honoured to be considered one of 29 manufacturers chosen by a panel of consultants to be included on the Laureus Sport For Good Index 2022 for the work we’re doing to make a constructive affect by means of girls’s soccer. 

With solely 50 days to go, roll on 20 July and the kick off of the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup 2023!