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2023 Women's FA Cup Final
The 2023 Women's FA Cup final was the 53rd final of the Women's FA Cup, England's primary cup competition for women's football teams. The showpiece event was the 29th to be played directly under the auspices of The Football Association (FA) and was named the Vitality Women's FA Cup Final due to sponsorship reasons. The final was contested between Manchester United and Chelsea, on 14 May 2023 at Wembley Stadium in London. Chelsea were the defending champions of the last two editions, and won their third consecutive cup on a 68th-minute Sam Kerr goal assisted by a Pernille Harder cross. The attendance of 77,390 broke the previous cup's record of 49,094, and also set a new world record for attendance to a match in a domestic women's competition, topping the 60,739 attendance to Atlético Madrid against Barcelona in the Primera División on 19 March 2019. VAR was not only used for the first time in the final but also the first time that it was used in an English women's co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022–23 Women's FA Cup
The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the Baseline (typography), baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the minus sign; the emdash , longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the horizontalbar , whose length varies across typefaces but tends to be between those of the en (typography), en and Em (typography), em dashes. History In the early 1600s, in Nicholas Okes, Okes-printed play (theatre), plays of William Shakespeare, dashes are attested that indicate a thinking pause, interruption, mid-speech realization, or change of subject. The dashes are variously longer (as in King Lear reprinted 1619) or composed of hyphens (as in Othello printed 1622); moreover, the dashes are often, but not always, prefixed by a comma, colon, or semicolon. In 1733, in Jonathan Swift's ''On Poetry'', the te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Barcelona FemenÃ
Futbol Club Barcelona FemenÃ, commonly referred to as Barça FemenÃ, is a Spanish professional women's association football, women's football team based in Barcelona, Catalonia. It's the women's football section of FC Barcelona and it competes in the Primera División (women), Primera División, the top tier of Women's football in Spain, Spanish women's football. Formed in 1970 by 18-year-old Immaculada "Imma" Cabecerán with the name Peña Femenina Barcelonista, but without belonging to FC Barcelona, the Peña Femenina Barcelonista was an establishing member of Spain's first recognized women's league, the Primera División (women), Primera División (founded as the Liga Nacional). Later Peña Femenina Barcelonistas was named as Club Femenà Barcelona. Although being closely associated with the club for decades, the team was not established as an official section of FC Barcelona until 2002, when the club definitively incorporated Club Femenà Barcelona into its sports structur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guro Reiten
Guro Reiten (born 26 July 1994) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a winger for English club Chelsea and the Norway national team. Before joining Chelsea in 2019, she played in Norway for Sunndal, Kattem, Trondheims-Ørn, and LSK Kvinner. She made her debut for Norway in 2014 and appeared with the team at the UEFA European Championship 2017, 2019 FIFA World Cup, and UEFA European Championship 2022. Club career Sunndal Born in Sunndalsøra, Møre og Romsdal, Reiten grew up in the village of Nordmøre and began her senior career with her local side Sunndal, then in the second division of the Norwegian football. Kattem At age 16, Reiten joined Toppserien side Kattem in 2011. During her year-and-a-half spell with Kattem, she made 35 league appearances and scored 11 goals in her second season, becoming the club's 2012 top scorer. Trondheims-Ørn After Kattem pulled out of the Toppserien, Reiten joined Trondheims-Ørn in 2013. During her four seasons with Tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren James
Lauren James (born 29 September 2001) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the England women's national team. Club career Arsenal James was scouted by Arsenal as a 13-year-old and trained with the boys' team, but within two years she began training with the first team. On 29 September 2017, James made her debut for Arsenal, coming on in the 67th minute, replacing Lisa Evans in a 2–0 win over Everton in the 2017–18 season. In doing so, she became the second-youngest player in Arsenal's history to make their debut. Manchester United On 13 July 2018, it was announced that James would be part of the first professional Manchester United squad due to compete in the newly restructured 2018–19 FA Women's Championship. She made her competitive debut for Manchester United in a 1–0 League Cup victory against Liverpool, on 19 August. She scored the opening two goals in United's first game of the 2018–19 Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erin Cuthbert
Erin Jacqueline Cuthbert (born 19 July 1998) is a Scottish footballer who plays for Chelsea in the FA WSL and is a member of the Scotland national team. She studied at University of the West of Scotland, combining graduation from the Open University with being a professional football player. Club career Scottish football Cuthbert played for five years at Rangers, making her Scottish Women's Premier League debut in September 2013 and being named the league's Young Player of the Year for the 2014 season. She transferred to Glasgow City in January 2015 and was part of the City team that won the domestic treble in 2015 then retained the SWPL title in 2016, though lost in both cup finals to Hibernian. Chelsea On 8 December 2016, Cuthbert left Glasgow City to join FA WSL club Chelsea. On 19 March 2017, she made her debut for the Blues in a 7–0 win over Doncaster Rovers Belles in the fifth round of the Women's FA Cup. On 30 April 2017, she made her league debut and scored the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Fleming
Jessie Alexandra Fleming (born March 11, 1998) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for FA Women's Super League club Chelsea and the Canada national team. Fleming previously played collegiate soccer in the United States with the UCLA Bruins from 2016 to 2019. She was a member of Canada's gold medal-winning side at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she scored the team's only regular time goal in the final on a penalty kick, as well as the first goal in the penalty shoot-out. Early life Fleming was born in London, Ontario to Michaele and John Fleming, who are both originally from Toronto. She has an older brother, Tristan, and a younger sister, Elysse. Growing up, she competed in soccer, hockey (including in a full-contact boys' league), track and field, and cross-country. She started playing soccer at the age of three for the London-based Nor'West Optimist Soccer Club, where she remained until 2016. Fleming attended Ryerson Public School for elemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Leupolz
Melanie Leupolz (born 14 April 1994) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the Germany national team. Club career Leupolz started her career with TSV Ratzenried and TSV Tettnang, then she joined Freiburg in 2010. In 2010–11 season, Freiburg was promoted to Bundesliga. In the following season, she made her Bundesliga debut on 21 August 2011 and scored a goal in a 2–2 away draw against SC 07 Bad Neuenahr. In 2014, she joined Bayern Munich. She made her debut on 31 August 2014 for Bayern in a 1–1 draw against 1. FFC Frankfurt, then she scored her first goal in a 4–0 win over Bayer 04 Leverkusen on 2 October 2014. Later on, she managed to win two Bundesliga titles in her first two seasons with Bayern, in 2014–15 and 2015–16. In 2018, she extended her contract until 2020. On 23 March 2020, Leupolz signed for Chelsea. On 29 August 2020, she won the FA Community Shield, to be her first title with Chels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niamh Charles
Niamh Louise Charles (born 21 June 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the England women's national team. Early career Charles grew up on the Wirral in Merseyside and spent her youth career at the West Kirby Wasps. Excelling when playing with boys up to the age of 14, where she was regularly the only female player on the pitch, after a successful trial, she became a member of Liverpool's youth setup, which she chose over rivals Everton. Club career Liverpool After impressing in the academy, Charles made her senior debut in April 2016 in a draw against Sunderland. Following her excellent 2016 season with Liverpool and the England U-17s, she was nominated for the Women's Rising Star award at the Northwest Football Awards. Chelsea Following Liverpool's relegation at the end of the 2019–20 season, Charles signed for Chelsea and won the double in her first season. She also started in the Champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (association Football)
The team captain of an association football team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game or has good leadership qualities. The team captain is usually identified by the wearing of an armband. Responsibilities The only official responsibility of a captain specified by the Laws of the Game is to participate in the coin toss prior to kick-off (for choice of ends or to have kick-off) and prior to a penalty shootout. Contrary to what is sometimes said, captains have no special authority under the Laws to challenge a decision by the referee. However, referees may talk to the captain of a side about the side's general behaviour when necessary. At an award-giving ceremony after a fixture like a cup competition final, the captain usually leads the team up to collect their medals. Any trophy won by a team will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalena Eriksson
Magdalena Lilly Eriksson (also Ericsson, born 8 September 1993) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Chelsea Women in the English Women's Super League as well as for the Swedish national team.Magdalena Eriksson . nbcolympics.com A and , she used to play for , |
Maren Mjelde
Maren Nævdal Mjelde (born 6 November 1989) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Chelsea and captains the Norway national team. She previously played for Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC of the Swedish Damallsvenskan, Turbine Potsdam of the Frauen-Bundesliga and both Arna-Bjørnar and Avaldsnes IL of the Norwegen Toppserien. Club career Mjelde was born in Bergen. She joined the Norwegian club, Arna-Bjørnar, as a 15-year-old in 2005. The club finished the 2012 Toppserien league in third place, earning the bronze medal that year. She transferred to the German club Turbine Potsdam before the 2013 season. She played all the club's matches in the latter part of the season, when they reached the runner-up position in the German Cup and League competitions. On 22 November 2016, Mjelde signed for Chelsea Ladies on a deal until 2018. On 16 November 2019, Mjelde scored the only goal in Chelsea Women's historic win versus Manchester United Women, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ève Périsset
Ève Josette Noelle Périsset (born 24 December 1994) is a French professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the France national team. Club career Périsset started her professional career at Lyon in 2012. In 2016, she moved to Paris Saint-Germain. On 19 June 2020, Bordeaux announced the signing of Périsset on a two-year deal. On 8 June 2022, Périsset joined FA WSL club Chelsea on a three-year deal. International career Périsset participated in several French youth teams. In 2014, she was part of the squad that finished third at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Canada. Périsset made her senior team debut on 16 September 2016 in a 1–1 draw against Brazil. In 2017, she was among the 23 women who represented France at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 The 2017 UEFA European Women's Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Women's Euro 2017, was the 12th edition of the UEFA Women's Championship, the quadrennial internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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