The Football Association have targeted an average attendance of 6,000 for the Women’s Super League by 2024 in a new strategy.

The FA says the aspiration overall is to build the “best women’s leagues in the world”, with the WSL and Championship “the most competitive, watched, attended and followed”.

The three-year strategy – which has been led by the WSL and Championship board in conjunction with clubs and other key stakeholders – states the main objectives being to “produce and attract world-class talent”, “maximise and engage audiences” and “grow commercial revenue and financial sustainability”.

Albion hope for a good turnout on Sunday when they return to the Amex to play Leicester City.

As well as 6,000 for the WSL, the masterplan includes an average attendance target of 1,000 for the Championship and the goal of selling out Wembley for the Women’s FA Cup final, by 2024.

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The average attendance this season up to the fifth round of matches in the WSL – which is in the first term of a three-year broadcast deal that sees matches televised on the BBC and Sky Sports – is 2,282. The figure is 544 for the Championship.

Kelly Simmons, the FA’s director of the women’s professional game, was asked on Tuesday if she was concerned about current attendance levels and if she felt they had taken a hit due to the availability of games on television under the new broadcast deal.

She said: “We were at around 3,000 (for the WSL) pre-Covid but that was skewed by some really big attendances on the back of the Women’s World Cup (in 2019).

“I think when you pull those out, we’re sort of back to where we were in terms of the women’s grounds. We obviously want to keep building on that.

“Research we did (shows) there are still concerns amongst fans in terms of coming back to big live events and using public transport.

“We have a fantastic opportunity with Sky and the BBC to build that awareness and sign-post fans back.”