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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...)
The1999 FIFA Women's World Cup was the third edition of theFIFA Women's World Cup, the world championship forwomen's nationalsoccer teams. It was hosted as well as won by the United States and took place from June 19 to July 10, 1999, at eight venues across the country. The tournament was the most successful FIFA Women's World Cup in terms of attendance, television ratings, and public interest.
The 1999 edition was the first to field sixteen teams, an increase from the twelve in1995, and featured an all-female roster ofreferees andmatch officials. It was played primarily in largeAmerican football venues due to expected demand following the successful1996 Olympics women's tournament. The average attendance was 37,319 spectators per match and the total attendance was 1.194 million, a record that stood until2015. The tournament earned a profit of $4 million on its $30 million operating budget. (Full article...)
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TheZambia women's national association football team representsZambia inassociation football, participating in qualifying tournaments for the FIFA Women's World Cup and other African-based competitions. It made its debut in the2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, becoming the first landlocked nation in Africa to qualify for a senior World Cup in either men's or women's soccer. (Full article...)
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