Women's football has enjoyed a surge in popularity during the year and Barrow's own Georgia Stanway is excited to have been a part of it.

The women's game has been played in front of unprecedented crowds this season, with Stanway involved in a couple of landmark days for club and country, and the interest off the back of last summer's World Cup has a permanent feel to it.

On the opening day of the Women's Super League season, Manchester City faced Manchester United in front of 31,213 at the Etihad Stadium - a far cry from when attendances in the league struggled to reach four figures in its early days.

It was a record WSL crowd at the time - it has since been surpassed by the 38,262 who witnessed Tottenham v Arsenal - but both these figures were dwarfed by the 77,768 inside Wembley for England's friendly against Germany last month.

Stanway said: "I feel like if we can entertain the fans and get them to know who we are and what we're here to do we can show that it's not just men and women's football, it football in general.

"We're looking to just open people's eyes as well because people would never really think that women could play football because of the past and basically not having the ability to watch it.

"The fact that most of our game's are streamed online and there's an opportunity to watch them on the FA Player, who show every game, and now there are many live games on BT Sport.

"It's important that people watch as many games as possible and almost jump on the bandwagon."

Stanway herself had a false start to her campaign after a hamstring injury suffered during City's Champions League tie with Lugano in September kept her out for six weeks.

Since coming back, she gone past 100 appearances for her club - no mean feat considering she's still only 20 - and is determined to help Nick Cushing's side fight on three fronts for the remainder of the campaign.

Last season's PFA Women's Young Player of the Year said: "We've started the season well - unfortunately, we got knocked out of the Champions League [by Atletico Madrid], which was a bit of a blow, but I think it means we can concentrate on the other three trophies that are up for grabs within our league.

"I think the league is getting so much more competitive and so much more exciting for people to watch and for us to be a part of it. I'm looking forward to carrying on the season as it's started.

"It was unfortunate to take that injury earlier in the season, but it's just one of those things. It's just part of the game and I made sure I was fitter and stronger, coming back after that.

"We've done well so far, we've gone into Christmas with a win [against Brighton]. We've now got a little bit of time away from football before we come back in the new year."