Portal:Women's association football
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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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Abby Wambach is a retired professional soccer player who competed as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team from 2001 to 2015. In 255 appearances for the senior national team, she scored 184 goals and is second in the world for goals scored at the international level by both female and male soccer players. The previous record holder was Mia Hamm who scored 158 international goals during her career, also for the United States. Wambach broke Hamm's record on June 20, 2013, as she completed a hat trick against South Korea, in a friendly match at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey.
Wambach scored her first international goal in the seventh minute of a friendly against Finland on April 27, 2002, in her second game for the national team. She scored her first international hat trick during a friendly against Scotland leading the national team to an 8–2 win in her fourth appearance for the team. Her first international goal scored during a competitive match occurred on November 2, 2002, during the national team's 9–0 win over Panama in the 2002 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup. During her first FIFA Women's World Cup tournament, she scored three goals in six games. Wambach completed her international career having scored a total of 14 goals in her 25 World Cup match appearances, placing second on the all-time World Cup scoring list behind Marta. (Full article...)Selected image
Members of the Qatar women's national football team line up prior to a friendly match against Kuwait, 2012.More did you know -
- ... that women in Kenya created the Kenya women's national football team independent of Football Kenya Federation? (2 July 2012)
- ... that Canada striker Christine Sinclair was named one of the 25 most influential people in Canadian sports before she turned 20?
- ... 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)
- ... that Trabzonspor were the first Turkish soccer team entitled to participate in the UEFA Women's Champions League? (19 September 2009)
- ... that Japanese international footballer Aya Sameshima worked at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants prior to the disaster there? (10 July 2011)
- ... that despite São Tomé and Príncipe gaining independence in 1975, the women's national football team did not play their first FIFA recognised match until 2002? (11 June 2012)
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- ... that English women's footballer Shameeka Fishley scored a hat-trick in her newly-established Turkish team's first match?
- ... that in 2022, Julia Dorsey helped North Carolina win a national lacrosse championship and reach the national soccer final?
- ... that Ellaisa Marquis has been called the "marquis player" of women's football in Saint Lucia?
- ... 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 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) -
"North" team of the British Ladies' Football Club, 1895 (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) -
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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) -
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) -
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) -
Everton players with the FA Women's Cup trophy in 2010 (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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The British Ladies' Football Club was a women's association football team formed in Great Britain in 1895. The team, one of the first women's football clubs, had as its patron Lady Florence Dixie, an aristocrat from Dumfries, and its first captain was Nettie Honeyball (real name likely Mary Hutson).
The club's first public match took place at Crouch End, London on 23 March 1895, between teams representing 'The North' and 'The South'. The North won 7–1 in front of an estimated 11,000 spectators. The club and its associated teams under different names played matches regularly until April 1897. It was briefly revived in 1902–03. (Full article...)Topics
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