(AFP) A French women’s football collective seeking to overthrow a ban on players wearing the Islamic veil during [matches] scored a crucial legal goal on Monday in their judicial fight to force a rule change.
Under its current rules, the French Football Federation forbids all players, even amateurs, from wearing “ostentatious” religious symbols in the name of French secularism, preventing players from wearing Muslim headscarves or the Jewish kippa.
A Muslim women’s collective known as “the Hijabeuses” launched a legal challenge to the rules in November 2021, claiming they were discriminatory and infringed their right to practise their religion freely.
