Portal:Women's association football
Women's association football (women's soccer) is the most prominent team sport played by women around the globe. It is played at the professional level in numerous countries throughout the world and 176 national teams participate internationally.
The history of women's football has seen major competitions being launched at both the national and international levels. Women's football has faced many struggles throughout its history. Although its first golden age occurred in the United Kingdom in the early 1920s, when one match achieved over 50,000 spectators, the Football Association initiated a ban in 1921 that disallowed women's football games from the grounds used by its member clubs. The ban stayed in effect until July 1971. The same year, UEFA recommended that the women's game should be taken under the control of the national associations in each country.
At the beginning of the 21st century, women's football, like men's football, has become professionalised and is growing in both popularity and participation. From the first known professional team in 1984, to the hundreds of thousands of tickets sold for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, support of women's professional football (soccer) has increased around the globe. However, as in other sports, women have struggled for pay and opportunities equal to male football players. Major league and international women's football enjoys far less television and media coverage than the men's equivalent. In spite of this, the popularity and participation in women's football continues to grow.
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The UEFA Women's Champions League is the first international women's association football club competition for teams that play in UEFA nations. Initially known as the UEFA Women's Cup, the competition has been re-branded since the 2009-2010 edition as the UEFA Women's Champions League. Since then, the winner has been decided in a new one-off final in the same city as UEFA Champions League final, as opposed to the two-legged ties in previous years.
1. FFC Frankfurt is the most successful club in the competition's history, winning the title 3 times. The reigning champions of the competition are VfL Wolfsburg, after beating Olympique Lyon 1-0 in the 2013 Final. And so far, Germany is the only country, which has clubs who have won two UEFA Champions Leagues for men and women in the same year.
Kim Little (born 29 June 1990) is a Scottish footballer and a leading scorer on the Scotland women's national football team. She is currently signed to Seattle Reign FC in the National Women's Soccer League and previously played for FA WSL club Arsenal Ladies. During her time with Arsenal, the team won five league titles, two WSL Continental Cups, three FA Cups and one Premier League Cup. Prior to her six years with Arsenal, Little played for Hibernian L.F.C. in the Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL). During her 18 months with the club, they won the SWPL championship title, Scottish Cup, and the Premier League Cup.
Little has represented Scotland at the senior international level since 2007. She was one of two Scots selected for the Great Britain squad that reached the quarterfinals of the 2012 London Olympics. In 2010, she was named the FA's Women's Player of the Year. In 2013, she became the first recipient of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Women's Player of the Year award.
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. The Canada women's national soccer team represents Canada in international Women's soccer, and is directed by the Canadian Soccer Association. Canada will host the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
The team reached international prominence at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, losing in the Third Place match to the United States. Canada qualified for its first Olympic women's soccer tournament in 2008, making it to the quarterfinals. In November 2010, Canada defeated the Mexico to win the CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifier. The team finished the tournament with a 5–0–0 record and did not concede a goal, earning a spot at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
The team won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, defeating France 1-0 in Coventry, England.
Canadian women’s soccer fans are also closely linked to the U-20 team (U-19 prior to 2006), partly due to Canada hosting the inaugural FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship in 2002 and winning silver in front of 47,784 fans at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta.
- December 17: Wikinews interviews former Matilda's player Sarah Walsh about Australian women's soccer
- December 7: Wikinews interviews academic Steve Redhead about Australian women's soccer
- January 7: Abby Wambach wins FIFA World Player of the Year
- November 19: Canberra United lose first game since January 2011
- July 27: London Olympics organizers apologize after North Korea flag gaffe
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