Talk:Women's association football

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Do we need this article?????? It's only links to external sites ATM. I wouldn't think 'female' football was sufficiently different to male football to deserve an entry. Not this stub anyway... KJ

If we had an article, yes I think we would need it. It is useful to know how and when women's involvement in the sport appeared. By the way, it some countries, it still goes under the name of Ladies football JtdIrL 01:50 Mar 4, 2003 (UTC)

The page needs some serious innput or else a trip to the dletion log. But I will try to work on it...(if I remember)

Antonio Shake Your Bon Bon Martin

I really think it should be Women's Football. -- Zoe

Women's Football sounds rightest to me. Google says 19,000 for Womens, 13,900 for Ladies, and 1,950 for Female, for what it's worth. -Nommo

i don't think anybody really cares about womens football.

• The 20,000+ people who attended the England games during the recent European Championships would disagree with you. And please put a name to your comments, thank you. Jess Cully 9 July 2005 01:22 (UTC)

• Should we even have to have this argument? Alistairjh (talk · contribs)

• I'm editing this page just to close this current thread as such (without any comment deletion). It's just that this page has had significant work done on it since some of these comments have been made. Some of the comments aren't dated so it might be a bit confusing to newcomers - Master Of Ninja 9 July 2005 07:59 (UTC)

Globalize This Article

Please continue to globalize this article. If someone wants to create it, we could use a "Wikipedia:To-do list" list here. Most immediately needed content: teams, leagues, players, coaches, competitions and history of women's football from countries beyond just the USA. Thanks to Wikipedians like User:Paulfurst who added Directory of Women's and Girl's football teams in England. -Deebki 01:39, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

New thread

Ordered disambiguation list in terms of popularity. Women's football soccer is on top because of its wider distribution, women's American football comes next because of the country it's associated with, and last comes Australia. I have no idea if we should include rugby as well, anyone? Surge79uwf 02:37, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Women´s footbal portall

I suggest create a Women´s footbal portal and include information in this article about Women's football pools. --HybridBoy 06:48, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree, there really should be a Women's Football (soccer) portal. Alistairjh (talk · contribs)

What's with the (but it should be known that women are still awful at the game of football.) in the 21st Century section of this article?? Casey Shelton 10-16-07 @11:11pm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.197.96.66 (talk) 03:09, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

lede

I just voted to keep this article in the specious AfD, but would like to point out a couple of deficiencies in the introductory section.

First, "Women's association football has been played for a long time" is vague and uninformative. The first sentence of the article should tell you what "Women's association football" is. This assumes you already know what "association football" is, and that this is just the women's version of it. I know nuttin' about sports, and after reading this introduction I still don't know what this is. The first sentence of association football, however, tells you what "association football" is. Keep in mind that people may come to this article because they see the phrase "women's association football" and want to know what that is; they may not read association football first, though if the sport per se is the same, you can summarize more briefly and cross-reference to the other article.

Second, although I don't question the following three assertions, you should not be surprised if you're asked to provide a source for each: "Before the 1970s, association football was mostly seen as a men's game. Association football is the most prominent team sport for women in a few countries, and one of the few women's team sports with professional leagues." Cynwolfe (talk) 17:37, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Hooliganism section...

Is unreferenced, uses weasel words, is poorly written and lumps South African fans in as one. There doesn't seem to be an obvious reference, the CAF website confirms it was abandoned (here), but nothing more, and the first results on google are all copied verbatim from the wiki article. On top of this the event doesn't seem to be of any significance with regards to womens football in general, and as such I'm going to remove it.. if anybody wants it back in please discuss it here first! BulbaThor (talk) 16:23, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Game

Why there is not a video game with woman soccer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.79.180.107 (talk) 13:05, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

"Women's footballers"

I notice there are many subcategories of Category:Women's association football players which use the phrase "women's footballers". This seems to me to be a grammatically confusing term: it could be interpreted as meaning "footballers who are owned by at least two women". (The first time I saw this, I thought it was a misprint for "women footballers", and it took me a long time to realise there was a grammatically correct way to interpret the phrase with its intended meaning, i.e. "players of women's football".) Does anyone else agree, and is there better terminology to use? -- Dr Greg  talk  21:35, 7 October 2011 (UTC)