The FA's new contribution to women's football comes in the form of a £5m ($7.3m/B8m) investment in the Active Sports girls' football programme and an additional £6m ($8.7m/B9.6m) into the TOP Sports programme which provides schools with football equipment and teacher training.
The Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) in the US, which went professional in August, predicts that the game in England will be more successful than in the US.
Karen Doyle, the FA's head of women's football told a national newspaper: "It [women's football] has been so successful in America and gives our plans further credence."
