This paper addresses the performativity of gendered identities and spaces with respect to their mutual constitution. It asks, how are gender regimes spatially organized and how can they be renegotiated? The paper adopts an anti-essentialist understanding of processes that are constitutive of embodied subjects. In doing so, the paper relies on the concept of doing gender and on Butler’s theory of performativity. These theoretical considerations are illustrated by film sequences and the history of women’s football. The paper also discusses the intersectionality of identity categories. It further emphasizes the importance of spatial practices in general and the appropriation of spaces in particular. The paper concludes with Doreen Massey’s reflections on space regarding conceptual considerations of intersectional and performative aspects.