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The Women's Super League ( WSL ), known as the Barclays Women's Super League ( BWSL) for sponsorship reasons, is the highest league of women's football in England. Established in 2010, it is run by the Football Association and features twelve fully professional teams. The league replaced the FA Women's Premier League National Division as the ...
List of England women's international footballers. This is a list of England women's international footballers – association football players who have played for the England women's national football team. This table takes into account all official England matches. Legacy numbers were introduced in November 2022 to mark the 50th anniversary ...
History See also: History of women's football in England Early years The success of the men's national football team at the 1966 FIFA World Cup led to an upsurge of interest in football from women within England. The Women's Football Association (WFA) was established in 1969 as an attempt to organise the women's game. That same year, Harry Batt formed an independent English team that competed ...
The decision to exclude women was only reversed from 1969 when, after the increased interest in football caused by England's 1966 World Cup triumph, the Women's Football Association was founded, although it would take a further two years – and an order from UEFA – to force the (men's) Football Association to remove its restrictions on the playing rights of women's teams.
English expatriate women's footballers (98 P) Pages in category "English women's footballers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 560 total.
Lists of women's association football players. The following are lists of people who play women's football (soccer) . List of women's footballers with 100 or more international goals. List of women's footballers with 100 or more international caps. List of top international women's football goal scorers by country.
Sunderland Association Football Club Women [1] is an English women's football club that plays in the Women's Championship. They play their home games at the Eppleton Colliery Welfare Ground in Hetton-le-Hole, in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear . Sunderland won the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division in 2004–05 to reach the top ...
UEFA Women's Champions League. Women's football has been played in England for over a century, sharing a common history with the men's game in the country in which the Laws of the Game were codified. [1] Women's football was originally very popular in the early 20th century, but after being banned by the men's Football Association, its ...