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Women's association football, more commonly known aswomen's football orwomen's soccer, is theteam sport ofassociation football played bywomen. It is played at the professional level inmultiple countries, and about 200 national teams participateinternationally. The same rules, known as theLaws 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 andbans by male-dominated organisations.
In the 1970s, international women's football tournaments were extremely popular, and the oldest surviving continental championship was founded, theAFC Women's Asian Cup. However, a woman did not speak at theFIFA Congress until 1986 (Ellen Wille). TheFIFA Women's World Cup was first held in China in1991 and has since become a major television event in many countries. (Full article...)
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Asisat Lamina OshoalaOON (born 9 October 1994) is a Nigerian professionalfootballer who plays as astriker forSaudi Women's Premier League clubAl Hilal and theNigeria national team. She is widely regarded as one of the best female players inwomen's football of her generation. She is one of the most celebrated African female footballers of all time, having wonAfrican Women's Footballer of the Year a record six times.
Oshoala previously played for English clubsArsenal andLiverpool, Chinese clubDalian, and Nigerian clubsRivers Angels andFC Robo. She won the2015 FA Women's Cup with Arsenal; two league championships and a cup title with Dalian; and the2019–20 Copa de la Reina and2019–20 Supercopa de España Femenina with Barcelona. In 2019, she became the first African player to score a goal in aUEFA Women's Champions League final. On 16 May 2021, Oshoala became the first African woman to win theUEFA Champions League, after Barcelona defeated Chelsea 4–0 in thefinals. The following season, she became the first African woman to win thePrimera División'sPichichi Trophy, and in August 2022 became the first African woman nominated to theBallon d'Or Féminin. In 2024, she became the first African player to win the UEFA Champions League three times. (Full article...)
Members of theKuwait women's national football team line up prior to their friendly match againstQatar, 2012.
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TheCanada women's national soccer team (French:Équipe du Canada de soccer féminine) representsCanada in internationalsoccer competitions. They are overseen by theCanadian Soccer Association, the governing body forsoccer in Canada.
The team reached international prominence at the2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, losing in the bronze medal match to theUnited States. Canada qualified for its firstOlympic women's soccer tournament in2008, making it to the quarter-finals. Canada's most significant achievement has been winning the gold medal at the2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The team is also two-timeCONCACAF Women's Championship winners, and two-time Olympic bronze medallists. (Full article...)
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