How can England's Euro 2022 win help grow the game?
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Euro 2022: Lionesses' victory party in Trafalgar Square
How can England's Euro 2022 triumph be harnessed to help grow the game?
After a number of false dawns in recent years when the Lionesses have made the semi-finals of major tournaments, it is a question the FA has been considering for some time.
The lesson of London 2012 - when the staging of a great event provided similar inspiration and record television audiences, but then failed to translate into a meaningful uplift in sports participation or activity levels across the country - seems to have been heeded by the governing body.
Plans to capture the enthusiasm generated by the hosting of this tournament have been in place for some time.
Ambitious targets have also been set with an aim of tripling current average WSL attendances - currently averaging below 2,000 - by 2024.
The celebratory and friendly atmosphere at Euro 2022 matches stood in stark contrast to the disorder that tainted the men's Euros final at Wembley last summer, and the pitch invasions that marred a growing number of Premier League and EFL matches last season.
That may well start to persuade more families to give WSL matches a chance next season, and already there seems to be signs of a surge in demand for tickets.
And an Ipsos online poll of 1,000 British adults this summer found, external 44% of the British public - and 64% of self-identified football fans - say they're more interested in watching women's football in the future.
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Amid disappointment that more big clubs were not interested in staging Euro 2022 matches when the bid was put together five years ago, there will now be pressure on more Premier League clubs to allow their women's teams to play in their main stadia. There will also be demands to make it easier for fans to buy tickets.
The FA will be asked to ensure women's league fixtures are more regular, with concerns the season schedule has been disjointed. Talks about the Premier League taking over the running of the WSL are ongoing, and there have been suggestions that private equity investors could look to buy the league.
But the concern is that at the grassroots, legacy still could be undermined by a lack of provision and facilities.
Only 44% of secondary schools currently offer equal access to football in PE lessons. In some parts of the country, women's and girls teams struggle to secure places to play.
The government has announced a review of the domestic women's game, and pledged a £230m investment to build or improve grassroots facilities but others point out that cuts to local authority budgets in recent years have meant a reduction in community pitches.
The FA says that by 2024, external it wants 75% of schools providing equal access for girls to play the game and 75% of all grassroots clubs offering at least one girls' team, with 1,000 clubs offering a complete accredited pathway for girls.
The FA hopes the Euros can create half a million extra opportunities for women and girls to play the game. At a time when more than half of all women in the UK do no exercise, the importance of this opportunity cannot be over-estimated.
"This presents an amazing opportunity for the country to really unite behind how sport can be used to drive positive social change, become more diverse and help to tackle deeply-embedded inequalities," said Hitesh Patel, director of the Sport for Development Coalition, a network of 250 sports charities.
"Not only will these players become role models to a generation of young women and girls, they can help to shine a light on how sport and physical activity is helping to support under-represented individuals and communities, especially in the wake of Covid-19 and in the face of a cost-of-living crisis.
"Getting more women and girls involved, and increasing diversity in sport, is just the first part of how sport can help to build a fairer future."
This is the moment the FA has been hoping for since 2009 when it awarded top women players central contracts, gave them a home at St George's Park, and started to offer the Lionesses unprecedented support. Those efforts led to Wembley on Sunday, and now a golden chance to change the landscape for women's sport, and wider gender equality has presented itself.
"The Lionesses' win is fuelling such an important conversation about equal access in sport, and in particular the place and value of physical education and sport in school for all young people" said Ali Oliver, chief executive of the Youth Sport Trust.
"We will do our bit to harness the demand that comes from not only the Euros, but also Birmingham 2022's 'Super Sunday' this weekend, when the finals of the Women's Cricket, Hockey and Netball competitions happen back to back at the Commonwealth Games, and then the Women's Rugby Union and League World Cups in the autumn."
Improving attendances and tackling inequalities over pay, prize money, coverage and sponsorship will be no quick-fix.
But this is an opportunity that the FA, clubs, the media, sponsors, and the government will be expected to seize.
And Baroness Sue Campbell, the FA's head of women's football, says that process must be managed "with great care".
She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I think there will be an influx of money, an influx of people who now see that it has commercial value, all of which is fine, great, we want a lot more support for the women's game, we want a lot more investment.
"But we all need to be responsible about how we manage the future and making sure we don't lose the essence and feel. People talk to me about how we've demonstrated that the beautiful game is back. This is how men's football used to be before it became too commercial. We want the women's game to retain that feel, to retain that essence as we move forward."
"I think equal doesn't mean the same and I think sometimes people confuse that. Equal means giving equal emphasis and I think what we're really proud of and anyone who was there at the game on Sunday and watched the players, watched tremendous football, also recognised what a wonderful atmosphere it was, what a very positive, inclusive, happy, joyful atmosphere.
"The culture around the women's game is different and as commerciality comes in, more money comes in, we've got to work very hard to preserve this wonderful culture that exists in the women's game.
"[The players] also want to make sure that this is managed growth, that we take this opportunity, that we build on it, that we do great things. The women are really keen to play their part in growing the game but we all want to do it in a way that preserves the very best of what's been fought for for many, many years by many people."