Articles: Ladies Football

Women's football (soccer) is not new. In England the 'fairer sex' have been playing the 'beautiful game' since the nineteenth century and on Boxing Day, 1920 the premier women's football team of the day (Dick, Kerr Ladies) played another Lancashire team, St. Helen's Ladies, before a capacity crowd of 53,000 at Goodison Park with another 10 to 15,000 fans locked out.


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In the same year the Dick, Kerr Ladies toured the USA where they played eight games against male opposition, winning three and scoring 35 goals.However, female participation in football in England was actively discouraged by the Football Association until quite recently (the FA banned women from using it's grounds for fifty years between 1920 and 1970), and is still widely considered as a 'man's game' in which women are seen as marginal, both as players and even as spectators.

Yet by 2002 football had become the number one female participation sport in England. Today it is the country's fastest growing sport and the coverage of the England women's football team competing in Euro 2005 on prime time terrestrial television will surely result in more and more girls wanting to emulate their new-found sporting role models.

The scale and speed of this explosion of interest in English female football is demonstrated by the facts: in 1993 there just 80 girls teams. In England today there are more than 7,000 teams and over 100,000 registered players.

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