The FA hopes the Super League will stop England players crossing the Atlantic to play in the US Women's Professional Soccer League where they play as full-time professionals. Presently only 19 women in England are on full-time central contracts, all with the national team and paid around £16,000 a year, the equivalent average weekly wage of a mid-table men’s Premier League player.
"If the summer league takes off then we'll have to see how our best English players can become professional in this country. At the moment the cream are heading off to the States and we'd rather they were playing here, so we are keen to reverse the trend,” said FA chief executive Ian Watmore.
Earlier this month Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe called on the FA to introduce a professional women's Premier League "as quickly as possible".
The original start date of 2010 was controversially deferred earlier this year, due in part to financial uncertainty following the collapse of UK television pay-broadcaster Setanta.
