Sport organizations are developing family-friendly spectator initiatives to boost engagement and sales to parents and children. While the number of women sport fans continues to grow, research has yet to explore how women, as mothers and fans, experience fandom. Informed by a maternal geography framework, this study explores women’s understanding of what does or does not make game-day experiences family-friendly by presenting the accounts of 15 women from North America and Australia who are sport fans and mothers. Interpretive phenomenological analysis is utilized to investigate how mothering as a spatially informed care practice shapes the perspectives of what constitutes a family-friendly sport spectating experience. Findings identify key components of the physical, structural, and social environments of women’s experiences of family-friendly sport fandom, as well as exposing that what is presumed to be family-friendly is not the same as mother-friendly.

体育组织正在制定适合家庭的观众计划，以促进对父母和孩子的参与和销售。虽然女性体育迷的数量持续增长，但研究尚未探索女性作为母亲和粉丝如何体验粉丝。在母性地理学框架的指导下，本研究通过介绍来自北美和澳大利亚的 15 名体育迷和母亲的女性的叙述，探索女性对什么使或不能使比赛日体验对家庭友好的理解。解释性现象学分析被用来调查母性作为一种空间知情的护理实践如何塑造构成家庭友好型体育观看体验的观点。调查结果确定了物理、结构、