Winning Ground Football festival stems from the mOtto “Winning Ground” of UEFA Women’s Euro 2013 in Sweden with ambitions that women’s and girls football would be winning grounds before, during and after the championship. Already since the first year, no cup winners are appointed at Winning Ground Fottball festival. Instead, the ambition is that all participant should have been winning grounds.
Winning Ground does not have a traditional cup playoffs with a final game. Instead, all teams will experience a game with the atmosphere of a final, marching in on Linköping Arena to the cup hymn and hear the team sheets being announced to the audience just like before a top league or national team game and play a final game.
During the first three years, Östergötland Football Association was projekt manager for Winning Ground and shared the arrangements with Linköping FC and local clubs with support from partners. Links to Winning Ground media coverage includes (mostly in Swedish):
2017
Sveriges Radio, P4 Östergötland
2016
2015
2014