Fan.Tastic Females Exhibition
The tour of the Fan.Tastic Females exhibition and its sequel Fan.Tastic Finals concluded in July 2024 at a specially organised closing event in Berlin after six years of touring.
The exhibition gave its Fan.Tastic Finals encore during UEFA EURO 2024 with a final tour across all 10 Host Cities in Germany. It featured the original Fan.Tastic Females cast of interviews, alongside new protagonists who were supporters of their national teams.
From its beginnings through to the summer of 2024, the exhibition celebrated female football fans, both club and national team supporters, from across Europe in a unique and significant way by telling their stories far and wide. It sparked conversations about women’s participation and equality in football – and will continue to do so for some time to come.
Each of the protagonists who shared their stories played an integral role in achieving this.
Following so many incredible contributions to the project, we are committed to ensuring its legacy continues to reach and inspire as many women as possible.
A selection of the digital portraits has been made publicly available on FSE’s YouTube channel to continue Football: Her.Story beyond the project’s lifetime.
View the digital portraits here. See the project’s Instagram page, which captured the project’s journey, here.
Fan.Tastic Females Trailer
Fan.Tastic Finals Trailer
Original Project Concept
Football & fan culture – for lads only? Far from it! But what do we know about women in football fan cultures in Europe? What stories do they have to tell and what views do they have on “the beautiful game”?
One thing is clear: there have been women inside football grounds from the very beginning – not always officially, sometimes undesired, and not always visible, but they have always been there. In the books and interviews about football and its fans, it is still rare to find women telling their stories. Likewise, women are rarely in the spotlight of existing fan and football legends.
The project Fan.Tastic Females – Football Her.Story set out to tell the stories of fantastic women – about their love and passion for the game, about their journey into the stands, their greatest, most impressive, funniest but also the less pleasant moments in football. The unique exhibition, put together by fans, for fans, wanted to illustrate the diversity and realities of female fan culture in European football (and beyond) – from the perspective of the protagonists themselves – and is now stored digitally to preserve the legacy of this unique and important work.
The exhibition was implemented by members of Football Supporters Europe (FSE), running from 2018 to 2024.