Football is a male dominated sport, but if there’s enough interest, Selma could have its own adult women’s flag football league this fall.

Venecia Eaton, the city’s youth and senior citizen planning coordinator, said she is researching whether or not there’s enough interest to get a women’s football league started in Selma.

In Alabama, where college football rarely takes a backseat to anything, Eaton expects many to be excited about playing.

“It should work. Selma is a football, baseball town so [it would be] doing something adults love to watch on TV and making it happen in real life,” Eaton said.

The project is still in the early stages.

Right now, Eaton is focused on forming a committee of people that know the rules of football and understand the game. The committee would be tasked with planning Selma’s involvement in women’s flag football, whether that be a single team or a league of multiple teams.

“I think that’s the most important thing — getting a committee formed so we can get everything in order,” Eaton said.

In the meantime, she’s doing her own research as well.

Eaton has a friend that plays in a league in Birmingham, which has multiple teams. She’s looking to that league for guidance.

“I’m trying to set up a meeting now with one of the coaches in Birmingham to see how they got started and see which way I need to go,” Eaton said.

For a league to start in Selma, she said there would need to be more than four total teams so that there’s a variety on the schedule.

“If we don’t have enough teams to have our own league, then we could travel to Birmingham and play that team in Birmingham,” Eaton said. “We can travel to play someone else.”

To join the committee, contact Eaton at 874-2105.