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 about 200 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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Gamla Ullevi (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɡâmːla ˈɵ̂lːɛˌviː], lit. 'Old Ullevi') is a football stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden, that opened on 5 April 2009. The stadium replaced the city's previous main football stadium, also called Gamla Ullevi, and is the home ground of GAIS, IFK Göteborg and Örgryte IS. It is also the national stadium for the Sweden women's national football team. The new stadium was built on the ground of the now-demolished old stadium. The construction of the stadium was surrounded by controversy, regarding the cost of the project, the alleged low standard of the finished stadium, as well as its name.
The first competitive match at the stadium on 5 April 2009 was also an Allsvenskan derby between Örgryte IS and GAIS, attracting 17,531 spectators. GAIS won, 5–1. The current attendance record of 18,276 was, however, set about a week later when IFK Göteborg played their first game at Gamla Ullevi against Djurgårdens IF. The stadium hosted the 2021 UEFA Women's Champions League Final between Chelsea and Barcelona. (Full article...)
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Marta Vieira da Silva waves to the crowd after a group stage match at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup between Brazil and Norway, 3 July 2011.More did you know -
- ... that the only team Guinea-Bissau women's national football team has played a FIFA-recognised match against is Guinea (1 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 Emilia Appelqvist was the captain of the Swedish team at the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup? (8 July 2013)
- ... 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, in 1969, British sports journalist Julie Welch became the first female in Fleet Street to report on a football match? (16 June 2011)
- ... that despite FIFA recognition and twice-weekly training sessions, the Madagascar women's national football team has yet to play in a single FIFA-recognised match? (20 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 sisters Talia and Tori DellaPeruta, college teammates at North Carolina, play soccer professionally for Sampdoria?
- ... 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 first-team All-American soccer player Jordynn Dudley holds her high school's basketball scoring record?
- ... that Ellaisa Marquis has been called the "marquis player" of women's football in Saint Lucia?
- ... that in 2022, Julia Dorsey helped North Carolina win a national lacrosse championship and reach the national soccer final?
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Iran women's national football team maintained a higher rank internationally. (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) -
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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Japanese high-school girls playing football in their traditional hakama with one team wearing sashes (c. 1920) (from Women's association football) -
A Welsh women's football team pose for a photograph in 1959 (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) -
Megan Rapinoe speaks on equal pay in March 2021. (from Women's association football) -
FC de Rakt DA1 (2008/2009) (from Women's association football) -
"North" team of the British Ladies' Football Club, 1895 (from Women's association football) -
United States' Abby Wambach plays off a corner kick against Canada. -
Everton players with the FA Women's Cup trophy in 2010 (from Women's FA Cup) -
Arsenal in 2007 of the Women's FA Cup (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) -
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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Marta of Brazil is the all-time leading scorer of the senior FIFA World Cups. (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 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)
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The Zambia women's national association football team represents Zambia in association football, participating in qualifying tournaments for the FIFA Women's World Cup and other African-based competitions. It made its debut in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, becoming the first landlocked nation in Africa to qualify for a senior World Cup in either men's or women's soccer. (Full article...)
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