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 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup was the third edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the world championship for women's national soccer teams. It was hosted as well as won by the United States and took place from June 19 to July 10, 1999, at eight venues across the country. The tournament was the most successful FIFA Women's World Cup in terms of attendance, television ratings, and public interest.
The 1999 edition was the first to field sixteen teams, an increase from the twelve in 1995, and featured an all-female roster of referees and match officials. It was played primarily in large American football venues due to expected demand following the successful 1996 Olympics women's tournament. The average attendance was 37,319 spectators per match and the total attendance was 1.194 million, a record that stood until 2015. The tournament earned a profit of $4 million on its $30 million operating budget. (Full article...)
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Members of the Kuwait women's national football team line up prior to their friendly match against Qatar, 2012.
More did you know -
- ... 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 Clare Taylor represented England in the World Cup at both football and cricket? (13 February 2011)
- ... that the female footballer Bilgin Defterli decided to go to Germany because she saw no chance to play football in Turkey due to the dissolution of women's football leagues in 2003? (19 December 2013)
- ... that despite having few registered women players and their team never playing a FIFA-recognised match, Burundi has an under-20 women's national team? (7 May 2012)
- ... that Marta met the Sierra Leone women's national football team in 2011 as part of the United Nations Development Programme? (15 June 2012)
- ... that two-time Olympic gold medalist Carli Lloyd is the only player to score the game-winning goal in two consecutive Olympic gold medal soccer matches? (March 4, 2014)
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- ... that horses were responsible for delaying the deciding match of the Barcelona women's football team's 1973 winning season?
- ... that in 2022, Julia Dorsey helped North Carolina win a national lacrosse championship and reach the national soccer final?
- ... that at age 14, footballer Lara Esponda was the youngest goalkeeper to debut in the top division of women's football in Argentina?
- ... that Rashida Beal was named 2016 Big Ten Defender of the Year after the Minnesota Golden Gophers won that year's conference tournament?
- ... 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?
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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) -
A Welsh women's football team pose for a photograph in 1959 (from Women's association football) -
Portland Thorns traveling supporters at Seattle's Memorial Stadium. (from Women's association football) -
Everton players with the FA Women's Cup trophy in 2010 (from Women's FA Cup) -
FC de Rakt DA1 (2008/2009) (from Women's association football) -
United States Abby Wambach plays off a corner kick against Canada. -
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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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)
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"North" team of the British Ladies' Football Club, 1895 (from Women's association football) -
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) -
Megan Rapinoe speaks on equal pay in March 2021. (from Women's association football) -
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) -
Arsenal in 2007 of the Women's FA Cup. (from Women's association football) -
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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) -
Iran women's national football team maintained a higher rank internationally. (from Women's association football) -
Iran vs Turkey in 2010 Youth Olympics (from Women's association football) -
Marta of Brazil is the all-time leading scorer of the senior FIFA World Cups. (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) -
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Arsenal and Charlton contest the 2007 FA Women's Cup final at the City Ground (from Women's FA Cup)
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