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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Cristiane Rozeira de Souza Silva (born 15 May 1985), known as Cristiane ([kɾisˈtʃjɐni]), is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Flamengo and the Brazilian women's national team. A prolific forward, she was part of Brazil's silver medal-winning teams at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic football tournaments. In total she has participated in five FIFA Women's World Cups and four Olympics.
At club level, Cristiane has played professionally in France, Germany, Sweden, the United States, Russia and South Korea, as well as in her native Brazil. (Full article...)Selected image
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- ... 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 while football is the most popular women's sport in Gambia and the U-17 has played in a World Cup qualifier, the Gambia women's national football team has not played a FIFA sanctioned game? (10 May 2012)
- ... that Trabzonspor were the first Turkish soccer team entitled to participate in the UEFA Women's Champions League? (19 September 2009)
- ... that the Yemen women's national football team has four training sessions a week? (18 June 2012)
- ... that the Brunei women's national football team is forbidden from participating in the Olympic Games by its country's government? (23 June 2012)
- ... that Maribel Domínguez is captain and all-time leading scorer of the Mexico women's national football team and plays for the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League? (8 October 2013)
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- ... 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 Rashida Beal was named 2016 Big Ten Defender of the Year after the Minnesota Golden Gophers won that year's conference tournament?
- ... that the Nike Phantom Luna football boot considers women's anatomy and the playing style of women's football in its design?
- ... 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 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?
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