Burnley FC Women has bagged 1m views of its TikTok LIVEs, just two years after the club announced a multi-season partnership with TikTok. The Clarets became the first UK football team to stream games live on the platform – an unprecedented move for a club in the FA Womens National League – with TikTok also becoming the clubs first shirt sleeve sponsor.

Since the start of the partnership, football fans around the world have rallied behind Burnley FC Women by tuning into their matchday TikTok LIVEs, with thousands of viewers per game.

The teams success on TikTok has helped Burnley FC Women engage both existing and new fans, while helping the club reach new TikTok communities outside football. This has contributed to commercial benefit off the pitch, including greater financial investment from Burnley FC, with a brand-new state-of-the-art gym currently being built specifically for the Womens team.

As part of the tie-up, TikTok also delivered special training for the Burnley FC Women players to help them get the most out of the platform and showcase their personalities, creating the first creator football team. This has seen viral content from Burnley players, ranging from Lauren Bracewell’s goalkeeping masterclass in catching the ball, to the team hosting a TikTok takeover of the UEFA Womens Football account during the Womens EUROs. Several TikTok creators have also collaborated with the team, including @you1stlondon, who took on a fitness challenge with the squad.

Beyond helping Burnley FC Women to grow its own fanbase, the partnership marked TikToks first major move into womens sport in the UK, paving the way for its Title Sponsorship of the TikTok Womens Six Nations and partnership with UEFA for the Womens EURO 22 It also helped to drive further buzz around womens sport, with the #WomensFootball hashtag now standing at over 3bn views.

“We are so proud to achieve this amazing milestone in partnership with TikTok,” said Marcus Mellor, Head of Commercial at Burnley FC. “We have a long-term aim of making Burnley FC Women a fully professional team, and in line with this, have just announced we will be increasing investment in our women’s team and amalgamating our social media channels with the men’s team. Working with TikTok to bring a whole new product in football broadcasting not only helps us in achieving greater awareness of our women’s team, but will hopefully contribute to the continued growth of women’s sport.”