Portal:Women's association football

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Alex Morgan and Stefanie van der Gragt battle for the ball during the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final in Lyon, France

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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The 2019–20 season was Manchester United Women's second season since they were founded and their first in the FA Women's Super League, the professional top-flight women's league in England. The club also competed in the FA Cup and League Cup.

Following the departure of Alex Greenwood in August 2019, Katie Zelem was named as her successor as club captain. (Full article...)

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The United States women's national soccer team celebrate their 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup win during a ticker tape parade in New York City

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... that while Réunion women's national football team is not recognised by FIFA, the team has played full internationals against South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe? (20 June 2012)
... that Netherlands Antilles women's national football team faces development challenges because football is only the sixth most popular sport in the country? (26 May 2012)
... that American professional soccer player Camille Levin helped Swedish club Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC win the 2013 Svenska Supercupen Women? (12 October 2013)
... that the Central African Republic faced difficulties in playing in the Women's U-19 World Cup semi-final against South Africa because the country initially refused to grant players visas? (10 May 2012)

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... that Hannah Sharts played soccer for the UCLA Bruins over twenty years after her mother fought to create the NCAA team?

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The following are images from various women's association football-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Everton players with the FA Women's Cup trophy in 2010 (from Women's FA Cup)
Image 2Players 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)
Image 3Marta of Brazil is the all-time leading scorer of the senior FIFA World Cups. (from Women's association football)
Image 4Women's FA Cup (left) trophy on display beside the men's trophy (right). (from Women's FA Cup)
Image 5Sam Kerr with Australia during the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup quarterfinal against Japan in Edmonton, 2015 (from Women's association football)
Image 6The 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 7North team of the British Ladies' Football Club, 1895 (from Women's association football)
Image 8A Welsh women's football team pose for a photograph in 1959 (from Women's association football)
Image 9United States' Abby Wambach plays off a corner kick against Canada.
Image 10Arsenal and Charlton contest the 2007 FA Women's Cup final at the City Ground (from Women's FA Cup)
Image 11Japanese high-school girls playing football in their traditional hakama with one team wearing sashes (c. 1920) (from Women's association football)
Image 12Mia Hamm (left) battles with German defender Kerstin Stegemann (from Women's association football)
Image 13Florida State vs North Carolina, 2005 (from Women's association football)
Image 14Arsenal after winning the Women's FA Cup in 2007 (from Women's association football)
Image 15Megan Rapinoe speaks on equal pay in March 2021. (from Women's association football)
Image 16Olympique Lyonnais vs Paris Saint-Germain (from Women's association football)
Image 17Goalkeeper Zahra Khajavi of the Iran women's national football team (from Women's association football)
Image 18Striker 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 19Iran vs Turkey in 2010 Youth Olympics (from Women's association football)
Image 20FC de Rakt DA1 (2008/2009) (from Women's association football)
Image 21Portland Thorns traveling supporters at Seattle's Memorial Stadium (from Women's association football)
Image 22The Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies (from Women's association football)

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Birmingham City Women F.C. is an English women's football club affiliated with Birmingham City F.C. As founding members of the FA Women's Super League in 2011, the team currently plays in the second-highest division of women's football in England. The team plays their home games at St Andrew's, the home of Birmingham City F.C. (Full article...)

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Women's association football
Overview	Geography FIFA Women's World Player of the Year FIFA Team Rankings National teams Club/Association teams Player lists
Competitions	Women's World Cup Olympics Algarve Cup Cyprus Cup Four Nations Tournament SheBelieves Cup U-20 World Cup U-17 World Cup More...
Cinema	Bend It Like Beckham (2002) Dare to Dream (2005) Offside (2006) Gracie (2007) Her Best Move (2007) Football Under Cover (2008) SEC Storied (2013) An Equal Playing Field (2015)
Stage	Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical (2015)
Television series	Just for Kicks (2002) Nine for IX (2013) The Kicks (2015) Keeping Score (2016)
Video games	Mia Hamm Soccer 64 (2000) FIFA 16 (2015) FIFA 17 (2016) FIFA 18 (2017) FIFA 19 (2018)
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Top level women's football leagues of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean (CONCACAF)
North America	Canada Mexico United States NWSL USLS
Central America	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama
Caribbean	Bermuda Jamaica Puerto Rico Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago

Top level women's football leagues of Europe (UEFA)
Current	Albania Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Previous	Belgium & Netherlands Czechoslovakia England Soviet Union
Andorra, Liechtenstein and San Marino are the only UEFA member associations without a national league.