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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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Lilian Parr (26 April 1905 – 24 May 1978) was an English professional women's association football player who played as a winger. She is best known for playing for the Dick, Kerr's Ladies team, which was founded in 1917 and based in Preston, Lancashire.
In 2002, she was the only woman to be made an inaugural inductee into the English Football Hall of Fame at the National Football Museum. (Full article...)Selected image
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- ... 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 Izetta Wesley, a female football administrator, believes the government of Liberia is insincere in how they treat the Liberia women's national football team? (27 June 2012)
- ... that Clare Taylor represented England in the World Cup at both football and cricket? (13 February 2011)
- ... that Canada striker Christine Sinclair was named one of the 25 most influential people in Canadian sports before she turned 20?
- ... 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 even though the Saudi Arabia women's national football team does not exist, women in the country have created, coached and played for their own club team outside the sight of men? (21 June 2012)
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- ... that first-team All-American soccer player Jordynn Dudley holds her high school's basketball scoring record?
- ... that the Nike Phantom Luna football boot considers women's anatomy and the playing style of women's football in its design?
- ... that horses were responsible for delaying the deciding match of the Barcelona women's football team's 1973 winning season?
- ... that sisters Talia and Tori DellaPeruta, college teammates at North Carolina, play soccer professionally for Sampdoria?
- ... that in 2022, Julia Dorsey helped North Carolina win a national lacrosse championship and reach the national soccer final?
- ... 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?
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- Image 3Marta of Brazil is the all-time leading scorer of the senior FIFA World Cups. (from Women's association football)
- Image 5Reception 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)
- Image 6Japanese high-school girls playing football in their traditional hakama with one team wearing sashes (c. 1920) (from Women's association football)
- Image 7Striker 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)
- Image 8Arsenal and Charlton contest the 2007 FA Women's Cup final at the City Ground (from Women's FA Cup)
- Image 9Sam Kerr with Australia during the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup quarterfinal against Japan in Edmonton, 2015 (from Women's association football)
- Image 11Portland Thorns traveling supporters at Seattle's Memorial Stadium. (from Women's association football)
- Image 14The 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)
- Image 15Iran women's national football team maintained a higher rank internationally. (from Women's association football)
- Image 16Mia Hamm (left) battles with German defender Kerstin Stegemann (from Women's association football)
- Image 17FC de Rakt DA1 (2008/2009) (from Women's association football)
- Image 18A Welsh women's football team pose for a photograph in 1959 (from Women's association football)
- Image 19Players 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)
- Image 21Players 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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The Canada women's national soccer team (French: Équipe du Canada de soccer féminine) represents Canada in international soccer competitions. They are overseen by the Canadian Soccer Association, the governing body for soccer in Canada.
The team reached international prominence at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, losing in the bronze medal match to the United States. Canada qualified for its first Olympic women's soccer tournament in 2008, making it to the quarter-finals. Canada's most significant achievement has been winning the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The team is also two-time CONCACAF Women's Championship winners, and two-time Olympic bronze medallists. (Full article...)Topics
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