Women’s World Cup Comes to Weaver Court

The 2023 Women’s World Cup is taking place in Australia and New Zealand in July and August, with 32 teams vying to be named as the World Cup Winners. With 64 matches to settle down and enjoy, there’s plenty of sporting action to keep residents enthralled.

Spread out across two different countries, the tournament kicked off on July 20, 2023 in Auckland, New Zealand, with the final set to take place on August 20 in Sydney, Australia.

World Cup Action at Weavers Court

At Weavers Court, the Women’s World Cup is about so much more than just watching other people on the box! We’re lucky that we can count on the expertise and footballing knowledge of Sophie Dales to keep our residents moving.

Sophie is from the Leeds United Foundation and spends time every week with our Weavers Court residents to keep them on the move.

Sophie has developed a really exciting challenge to keep our residents engaged and active, inspired by the Women’s World Cup.

Sophie’s World Cup Penalty Shootout Challenge will see a number of care homes that Sophie visits draw a country out of cup and to see how many goals residents can score into a pop-up net. The challenge will run for 4 weeks, from the start of September in the sessions that Sophie runs in the care homes. Every resident that attends will be able to give a goal a go and the totals will get added up at the end of the challenge.

 Score To Win

As well as being a lot of fun, each week’s score will be added up to find the total to discover the winning home. Unlike the Women’s World Cup, everyone that takes part will be a winner as residents and staff members will be invited to Leeds United’s home at Elland Road for the winner’s ceremony.