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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. The United States is the most successful nation in women's football, having won 4 Women's World Cups and 5 Olympic gold medals. The second most successful nation in women's football is Germany, with 2 Women's World Cups and 1 Olympic gold medal.

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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Saudi women’s football comprises several leagues and cup competitions. The top division is the Premier League, followed by the First Division and the Second Division. Major cup tournaments include the Super Cup and the Women's Cup.

There are also multiple Saudi Girls' youth football competitions aimed at developing young players. Collectively, these leagues and competitions form the structure of women’s football in Saudi Arabia. (Full article...)

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2007 FIFA World Player of the Year nominee Christiane controls the ball during the 2007 Pan American Games Gold Match. Brazil beat the United States 5-0 to win the competition for the second time.

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... that while the Oman women's national football team has yet to play a game, a club from Oman played matches against national teams from Jordan and Syria? (30 June 2012)
... that American professional soccer player Camille Levin helped Swedish club Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC win the 2013 Svenska Supercupen Women? (12 October 2013)
... 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 despite the Seychelles women's national football team having played only two games up to June 2012, a national football tournament for women has been around in the country since the late 1990s? (22 June 2012)
... that Canada striker Christine Sinclair was named one of the 25 most influential people in Canadian sports before she turned 20?
... 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)

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... that the Nike Phantom Luna football boot considers women's anatomy and the playing style of women's football in its design?
... that when Swedish soccer player Beata Olsson transferred from Florida to Florida State, she said that she did not really know about the schools' rivalry?
... that at age 14, footballer Lara Esponda was the youngest goalkeeper to debut in the top division of women's football in Argentina?
... that first-team All-American soccer player Jordynn Dudley holds her high school's basketball scoring record?
... that despite being the first women's football team in Northern Ireland to sign players on professional contracts, Cliftonville Ladies F.C. were not the first club to register them?
... that defending champions Bermuda did not compete in the women's football tournament at the 2015 Island Games?

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

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

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The Japan women's national football team (Japanese: サッカー日本女子代表, Hepburn: Sakkā Nippon Joshi Daihyō), commonly known as Nadeshiko Japan (なでしこジャパン), represents Japan in women's association football and is run by the Japan Football Association (JFA). One of the two countries to win every FIFA competition and the most successful women's national team in the Asian Football Confederation, its highest ranking in the FIFA Women's World Rankings is 3rd, achieved in December 2011.

Nadeshiko Japan defeated the United States in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, thus claiming their first FIFA Women's World Cup title, becoming the first Asian team to do so and only the fourth women's world champions. It won silver medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, making it the only Asian team to have three combined medals from international championships. It also won gold medals at the 2014, 2018 and 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cups, the 2010 and 2018 Asian Games, and the 2008, 2010, and 2019 EAFF Football Championships. (Full article...)

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