Portal:Women's association football
The Women's Association Football Portal
Women's association football, more commonly known as women's football or women's soccer, is the team sport of association football played by women. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries, and 187 national teams participate internationally. The same rules, known as the Laws of the Game, are used for both women's and men's football.
After the "first golden age" of women's football occurred in the United Kingdom in the 1920s, with one match attracting over 50,000 spectators, The Football Association instituted a ban from 1921 to 1970 in England that disallowed women's football on the grounds used by its member clubs. In many other nations, female footballers faced similarly hostile treatment and bans by male-dominated organisations.
In the 1970s, international women's football tournaments were extremely popular, and the oldest surviving continental championship was founded, the AFC Women's Asian Cup. However, a woman did not speak at the FIFA Congress until 1986 (Ellen Wille). The FIFA Women's World Cup was first held in China in 1991 and has since become a major television event in many countries. (Full article...)
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The national federation was created in 1956 and became a FIFA affiliate in 1956. However women's football is not included in the country's FIFA coordinated Goals! project. By 2011, inside the Saudi Arabia Football Federation, there has been an effort to create women's football programs at universities. Input had been sought on how to do this from other national federations including ones from the United States, Germany, Brazil and the United Kingdom. (Full article...)
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Australian national team forward Samantha Kerr playing against the United States in Carson, California, 2012
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- ... that the only FIFA recognised matches Anguilla women's national football team have played in were against Antigua and Barbuda, US Virgin Islands, Barbados and Grenada? (13 May 2012)
- ... that among the challenges to developing the Niger women's national football team is shari'a law being used to ban women from the sport in some parts of the country? (16 June 2012
- ... that the Brunei women's national football team is forbidden from participating in the Olympic Games by its country's government? (23 June 2012)
- ... that Canada striker Christine Sinclair was named one of the 25 most influential people in Canadian sports before she turned 20?
- ... that while Réunion women's national football team is not recognised by FIFA, the team has played full internationals against South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe? (20 June 2012)
- ... that Maribel Domínguez is captain and all-time leading scorer of the Mexico women's national football team and plays for the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League? (8 October 2013)
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- ... that despite being the first women's football team in Northern Ireland to sign players on professional contracts, Cliftonville Ladies F.C. were not the first club to register them?
- ... that the Nike Phantom Luna football boot considers women's anatomy and the playing style of women's football in its design?
- ... that the 2012 Olympic women's soccer semifinal between the Canadian and the American national teams was called "the greatest knockout match in major-tournament football" since 1982?
- ... that soccer player Danielle Marcano scored four goals in back-to-back games that helped to send the University of Tennessee to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals for the first time in history?
- ... that first-team All-American soccer player Jordynn Dudley holds her high school's basketball scoring record?
- ... that at age 14, footballer Lara Esponda was the youngest goalkeeper to debut in the top division of women's football in Argentina?
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United States Abby Wambach plays off a corner kick against Canada. -
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A Welsh women's football team pose for a photograph in 1959 (from Women's association football) -
Sam Kerr with Australia during the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup quarterfinal against Japan in Edmonton, 2015 (from Women's association football) -
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Striker Cristiana Girelli and coach Rita Guarino of Juventus in 2019. Juventus is one of the most storied and successful football clubs in Italy. (from Women's association football) -
Iran vs Turkey in 2010 Youth Olympics (from Women's association football) -
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Arsenal in 2007 of the Women's FA Cup. (from Women's association football) -
Megan Rapinoe speaks on equal pay in March 2021. (from Women's association football) -
Iran women's national football team maintained a higher rank internationally. (from Women's association football) -
Japanese high-school girls playing football in their traditional hakama with one team wearing sashes (c. 1920) (from Women's association football) -
FC de Rakt DA1 (2008/2009) (from Women's association football) -
Arsenal and Charlton contest the 2007 FA Women's Cup final at the City Ground (from Women's FA Cup) -
Marta of Brazil is the all-time leading scorer of the senior FIFA World Cups. (from Women's association football) -
Portland Thorns traveling supporters at Seattle's Memorial Stadium. (from Women's association football) -
Players fighting for the ball during the match between Germany and Norway in UEFA Women's Euro 2009 in Tampere, Finland. (from UEFA Women's Championship) -
"North" team of the British Ladies' Football Club, 1895 (from Women's association football) -
Reception of Germany women's national football team, after winning the 2009 UEFA Women's Championship, on the balcony of Frankfurt's city hall "Römer" (from UEFA Women's Championship) -
The official record attendance for a women's football match was set at Camp Nou on 22 April 2022, with 91,648 people watching Barcelona defeat Wolfsburg 5–1 (pictured). (from Women's association football) -
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Players fighting for the ball during the match between Germany and Norway in UEFA Women's Euro 2009 in Tampere, Finland. (from Women's association football)
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Birmingham City Women F.C. is an English women's football club affiliated with Birmingham City F.C. As founding members of the FA Women's Super League in 2011, the team currently plays in the second-highest division of women's football in England. The team plays their home games at St Andrew's, the home of Birmingham City F.C. (Full article...)
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