Women’s football · Dubai & the region

Women’s football is having its moment.
We make it last.

Built from the pitch, for the future of the game.

flick is a founder-led football development and advisory company in Dubai, helping clubs and academies build, professionalise and fund women’s football projects across the UAE and the region — the fastest-growing asset in world sport.

Track record
  • Built River Plate’s first women’s league
  • Argentine Football Association
  • DXB FC, UAE FA First Division
  • Mina Cup (GCC)
  • FIFA Master Scholar ’26
01

From the pitch, not the slide deck.

02

Backed by numbers.

03

Built for the digital and cognitive era — real tech depth on the team.

Why now

Women’s football is the fastest-growing asset in global sport — and still underpriced. The window to enter at a low base is open now.

$0B+

projected global women’s elite-sport revenue by 2026 (Deloitte, projection)

+0%

growth since 2022

0M

projected women’s-football fans by 2030 (Nielsen / PepsiCo, projection)

$2M $0M

franchise-value rise in 5 years

Our focus

Clubs & academies

Where we do our best work — building, professionalising and funding women’s football projects from the ground up.

Where we grow

Federations & institutions

Our team has worked directly with Gulf football institutions — structure, budgets and partnerships at the system level.

A natural next step

Brands & sponsors

Meaningful entry points into the game’s fastest-growing audience — measurable, not decorative.

What we do

One job, start to finish: we take a women’s football project from first idea to a sustainable operation that runs on its own.

Most advisories sell you a menu. We sell you the journey.

Financial discipline

Every project is built on a model that holds up — real budgets, real revenue lines and a path to surplus, not a hopeful spreadsheet.

Digital and cognitive fluency

Technology, data and modern audience-building run through everything — led by senior tech people who have shipped at scale.

How we focus

One journey. Four places you can start.

How we deliver

A lean core.
A deep bench.

A small senior core plus a curated network of specialists per field — delivering end to end with the depth of a full team and none of the overhead. Senior people only, one accountable point of contact, owning the whole journey.

flick core · senior team
Club operations
Finance
Sponsorship
Legal & governance
Data & technology
Coaching & sport science
Community & marketing
Methodology

How a project moves.

01

Diagnose

Read the market, the assets and the gaps — honestly, before anyone spends.

02

Design

Build the plan, the structure and the numbers that actually hold up.

03

Activate

Put it on the pitch — teams, partners and community, live and running.

04

Scale

Turn a project into an operation that sustains and grows on its own.

Built for the digital & cognitive era

Our technology and data work is led by our Head of Tech, who has assessed sports-tech acquisitions and built football-tech with major regional institutions.

How we measure success

  • Participation growth
  • Sponsorship pipeline value
  • Audience & engagement growth
  • Budget performance
Team

Senior people. One accountable team.

Julieta Tarana Van Morlegan
Founder

Julieta Tarana Van Morlegan

I spent over a decade reading markets. Women’s football is at its inflection point — and the smart money already knows it.

FIFA Master Scholar ’26. Built River Plate’s first women’s league, 0→9 teams (+125%). Turned a federation deficit into surplus. AFA and Mina Cup work in Dubai. 12+ years in finance.

Head of Tech

Julio César De Salvo

20+ years in enterprise software, big data and AI. Led the tech assessment behind the LaLiga Tech (now Sportian) acquisition. Regional projects with the Saudi Pro League, SAFF, the Saudi Ministry of Sport and the AFC.

The specialist network
Club operations Coaching & sport science Sponsorship Legal & governance Data & technology Community & marketing Finance
Point of view

Mixed football is a product, not a novelty.

Our thinking is grounded in FIFA/CIES award-winning research — already a published thesis and a live, growing community of people building the game differently.

Ongoing: the Sports Journey series — field notes from inside the projects we run.

Fit

Who this is for.

flick is for
  • Clubs, federations and brands serious about professionalising football.
  • Projects that want to be funded, measurable and built to last.
flick is not for
  • One-off logo placements.
  • “360 solutions” and vague, unaccountable mandates.
Contact

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