This was the year football seemed to change: England actually did quite well in the World Cup, for a bit it even seemed as though it might be coming home, and then the Premier League appointed its first ever female chief executive.
As the one at the helm of an industry worth £3bn, Susanna Dinnage will become one of the few women at the top of British sport. But as she prepares to take over from Richard Scudamore, there are still questions to be answered as to why it has taken so long for women to enter higher positions in football.
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