The Women's Association Football Portal
Women's association football, simply women's football, is the team sport of association football when played by women only. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries throughout the world and 176 national teams participate internationally. The history of women's football has seen competitions being launched at both the national and international levels.
Although 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 initiated a ban in 1921 in England that disallowed women's football games from taking place on the grounds used by its member clubs. That ban remained in effect until July 1971.[globalize]
The inaugural FIFA Women's World Cup was held in China in 1991. Since then, the sport has gained in popularity. The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final in Canada was the most watched football game in United States history and over 1.12 billion people worldwide watched the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France. (Full article...)
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Marta Vieira da Silva (born 19 February 1986), commonly known as Marta ([ˈmaɾtɐ]), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the Brazil national team. Marta is often regarded as the greatest female footballer of all time. She has been named FIFA World Player of the Year six times, five of them being consecutive (from 2006 through 2010) and the latest award coming in 2018.
Marta holds the record for being Brazil's top international goalscorer of any gender, with 115 goals. With 17 goals, Marta also holds the record for most goals scored in the FIFA World Cup tournament (women's or men's). Moreover, she is the first footballer of any gender to score at five World Cup editions, a feat matched by Christine Sinclair in 2019, and also the first female footballer to score at five consecutive Olympic Games. She was a member of the Brazilian national teams that won the silver medal at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. She was also awarded the Golden Ball (MVP) at the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship and won both the Golden Ball award as the best player and the Golden Boot award as the top scorer in the 2007 Women's World Cup after leading Brazil to the final of the tournament. (Full article...)Selected image
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Mercedes Pereyra playing against Brazil at the 2014 Copa América Femenina.
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- ... that the Togo women's national football team participated in the 2007 Tournoi de Cinq Nations in Ouagadougou but was disqualified after the first match for sending a club team? (2 May 2012)
- ... that Birgit Prinz leads Germany in goals scored and caps.
- ... 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 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)
- ... 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 the Zanzibar women's national football team has few women's teams to play against and has beaten men's teams? (29 April 2012)
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- ... that the name of the women's soccer team Racing Louisville FC is inspired by Louisville's famous horse races?
- ... that in 2012, French women's football club Arras FCF were promoted to the country's top division and reached the semi-finals of the French Cup?
- ... that English women's footballer Shameeka Fishley scored a hat-trick in her newly-established Turkish team's first match?
- ... that Rashida Beal was named 2016 Big Ten Defender of the Year after the Minnesota Golden Gophers won that year's conference tournament?
- ... that North Carolina Courage teammates Ryan Williams and Cari Roccaro made training videos for other teammates to follow during socially distanced training?
- ... that Turkish television and film actress Serenay Aktaş was once a women's footballer?
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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)
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)
Ceremony before the UEFA Women's Euro 2009 final (Germany vs. England) at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, 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)
Japanese high-school girls playing football in their traditional hakama with one team wearing sashes. (c. 1920) (from Women's association football)
"North" team of the British Ladies' Football Club, 1895 (from Women's association football)
FC de Rakt DA1 (2008/2009) (from Women's association football)
Everton players with the FA Women's Cup trophy in 2010 (from Women's FA Cup)
Alex Morgan and Stefanie van der Gragt battle for the ball during the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final in Lyon, France (from Women's association football)
Kuopion Mimmifutis (KMF), a women's football club of Kuopio, Finland in 2006 (from Women's association football)
A Welsh women's football team pose for a photograph in 1959 (from Women's association football)
Iran vs Turkey in 2010 Youth Olympics (from Women's association football)
Mia Hamm (left) battles with German defender Kerstin Stegemann. (from Women's association football)
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