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 Damallsvenskan, known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is one of the best women's leagues in the world, and was founded in 1988.
The division consists of a league of 14 teams. From 2013, the Damallsvenskan began operating on a system of promotion and relegation with the Elitettan. The two lowest placed teams are relegated to the Elitettan, and the two highest placed teams from the Elitettan are promoted in their place. Starting with the 2022 season the league has been expanded from 12 to 14 teams. (Full article...)Selected image
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Mercedes Pereyra playing against Brazil at the 2014 Copa América Femenina.
More did you know -
- ... that even though the Saudi Arabia women's national football team does not exist, women in the country have created, coached and played for their own club team outside the sight of men? (21 June 2012)
- ... that by making her debut in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup at the age of 16, Cecilia Santiago became the youngest-ever goalkeeper to appear in a World Cup? (7 July 2011)
- ... that the Yemen women's national football team has four training sessions a week? (18 June 2012)
- ... that while FIFA inquired about the creation of a Sudanese women's national football team, the Islamic Fiqh Council in Sudan issued a fatwa forbidding it? (29 April 2012)
- ... that the Netherlands reached the final of the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2019 in only their second appearance at the tournament, having made their debut 4 years earlier.
- ... that the Côte d'Ivoire women's national football team is Africa's sixth best women's football team while women's football is the fourth most popular sport in the country? (28 June 2012)
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- ... 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 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 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 English women's footballer Shameeka Fishley scored a hat-trick in her newly-established Turkish team's first match?
- ... that horses were responsible for delaying the deciding match of the Barcelona women's football team's 1973 winning season?
- ... 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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Yuki Ogimi (17) scores for Japan against the United States off a pass from Homare Sawa (10) as Kelley O'Hara (5) defends and Hope Solo (1) attempts to save. (from Women's association football) -
A Welsh women's football team pose for a photograph in 1959 (from Women's association football) -
"North" team of the British Ladies' Football Club, 1895 (from Women's association football) -
Iran vs Turkey in 2010 Youth Olympics (from Women's association football) -
Players fighting for the ball during the match between Germany and Norway in UEFA Euro 2009 Women's European Championship in Tampere, Finland. (from UEFA Women's Championship) -
Arsenal and Charlton contest the 2007 FA Women's Cup final at the City Ground (from Women's FA Cup) -
Abby Wambach and England captain Steph Houghton shake hands before kick off on February 13, 2015 (from Women's association football) -
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Marta wearing the Brazil number 10 during a match in the 2007 Pan American Games (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) -
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)
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