CLIMATE change could pose a serious risk to more than three-quarters of pitches used by clubs in the top three tiers of English women’s football and the Scottish Women’s Premier League over the next 25 years, according to a new report.

Seventy-seven per cent of clubs — 46 out of 60 — are affected by multiple high or very high climate hazards in the medium term, modelling from the Green Football “Great Save” campaign and Zurich Resilience Solutions has found.

Across England, 77 per cent of clubs are projected to be exposed to high drought, 52 per cent to high levels of heatwave and 17 per cent to high levels of flooding by 2050, the report said.