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Home Counties League
The Home Counties League was a women's football league which was the highest level of play for teams in South East England. The league was established in 1970, on the initiative of the Amersham Angels team, which left the South East of England League. Other founding members included the Crystal Palace, Queen's Park Rangers, and Swindon Spitfires Women. Reading Ladies and Red Star Southampton joined for the 1971/72 season, with Southampton becoming the league's dominant team, its main challenger in the early years being Thame Ladies. In later years, Southampton moved to the Southern Regions League, and Friends of Fulham became a leading club in the league, winning the Home Counties League Cup on six consecutive occasions. For the 1991/92 season, the Women's Football Association reorganised the league system, with top teams moving to the new WFA National League Premier Division, and most others to the new Southern Region Women's Football League The Southern Region Women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Football In England
Women's football has been played in England for over a century, sharing a common history with the men's game as the country in which the Laws of the Game were codified. Women's football was originally very popular in the early 20th century, but after being banned by the men's Football Association, its popularity declined. It took until the 1990s for the number of female players and spectators to increase, culminating in England hosting the Women's European Championships in 2005. History Origins It is impossible to locate the precise moment at which women started playing football, just as much of the history of the men's game is uncertain. While football in the medieval era is generally believed to have been a men's game, limited evidence suggests that women were occasionally involved. Sir Philip Sidney briefly mentioned female involvement in his 16th Century poem ''A Dialogue Betweene Two Shepherds'', meanwhile Mary Queen of Scots was known to have been a spectator of the sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South East Of England League
The South East of England League was an early women's football league. The league was founded for the 1968–69 season, on the initiative of Patricia Gregory and the White Ribbon football team. The league grew rapidly, but suffered a split in 1970, when the Amersham Angels founded the rival Home Counties League The Home Counties League was a women's football league which was the highest level of play for teams in South East England. The league was established in 1970, on the initiative of the Amersham Angels team, which left the South East of England L ....{{cite web , last1=Lewis , first1=Rhett , title=Swindon Spitfires: Women's Football Club Established 1967 , url=https://historyofsoccer.info/swindon-spitfires , website=History of Soccer , access-date=22 August 2022 In 1975–76, Lowestoft Ladies joined the league, and then won it each year until 1978–79. The league disbanded at the end of the 1981/82 season.''Football She Wrote'', pp83–94 References Defunct women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's Park Rangers L
Queens is a borough of New York City. Queens or Queen's may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * Queens (group), a Polish musical group * "Queens" (Saara Aalto song), 2018 * ''Queens'' (novel), by Stephen Pickles, 1984 * "Queens", a song by Caravan Palace from ''Panic'', 2012 * ''The Queens'', the third novel in a planned trilogy in the Ender's Game series * ''Queens'' (film), 2005 * ''The Queens'' (film), a 2015 Chinese romance film based on the novel of the same name * ''Queens'' (American TV series), an American musical drama television series 2021–2022 * ''Queen's'' (TV series), 2007 * ''The Queens'' (TV series), a 2008 Chinese historical drama * '' Queens: The Virgin and the Martyr'', a Spanish and British historical drama television series * Queen's Theatre (other) Places * Queens, West Virginia, U.S. * Queens (electoral district), the name of several Canadian districts * Queens County (other) * Region of Queens Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swindon Spitfires F
Swindon () is a town and unitary authority with borough status in Wiltshire, England. As of the 2021 Census, the population of Swindon was 201,669, making it the largest town in the county. The Swindon unitary authority area had a population of 233,410 as of 2021. Located in South West England, the town lies between Bristol, 35 miles (56 kilometres) to its west, and Reading, equidistant to its east. Recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as ''Suindune'', it was a small market town until the mid-19th century, when it was selected as the principal site for the Great Western Railway's repair and maintenance works, leading to a marked increase in its population. The new town constructed for the railway workers produced forward-looking amenities such as the UK’s first lending library and a ‘cradle-to-grave' health care centre that was later used as a blueprint for the NHS. After the Second World War, the town expanded dramatically again, as industry and people moved out from Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Star Southampton
Southampton Saints Girls and Ladies Football Club, founded in 1979 as Red Star Southampton, was an English women's football club formerly affiliated with Southampton F.C.. At the end of the 2013–14 season the South West Combination WFL dissolved and the team moved into FA Women's Premier League - Division One South West. They finished 4th out of the 9 teams in the newly formed leagues' first season. The club was disbanded due to financial reasons in July 2019. History The club began in 1979 as Red Star Southampton, competing in the Home Counties League then the Southern Regions League. In 1991 Red Star won the Southern Region Division One and became founder members of the FA Women's Premier League National Division. In August 1991 the club were in Russia as guests of FC Spartak Moscow during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The first season at national level saw Red Star finish second in the League to Doncaster Belles and also lose the 1992 WFA Cup final 4–0 to the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friends Of Fulham
Fulham FC Women, previously known as Fulham LFC, WFC Fulham and Fulham FC Foundation Ladies, is a women's football club based in London, England. The team were dissolved as of 16 May 2006, but were later re-established with independence from Fulham F.C. The club dissolved for a second time in June 2010 when sponsors pulled out following a second successive relegation. The club reformed again in 2014. Fulham became the first Ladies' football team in Europe to turn full-time professional in April 2000; club chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed reverted the club to semi-professional status three years later, but the club reformed in 2014. History Fulham L.F.C. were seen as the successor club to Friends of Fulham, winners of the FA Women's Cup in 1985 and twice runners-up in 1989 and 1990. After they moved to become what is now AFC Wimbledon Ladies, Fulham F.C. re-established a women's team, with women's football becoming very popular by the early 1990s. Fulham L.F.C.'s debut came in 1993 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Football Association
The Women's Football Association (WFA) was the governing body of women's football in England. It was formed in 1969 and was disbanded in 1993, as responsibility for overseeing all aspects of the game of women's football in England passed to The Football Association. History On 1 November 1969, representatives of 44 clubs attended the inaugural meeting at Caxton Hall in London. Six months later seven regional Leagues were represented at the first AGM. Pat Dunn was initially elected chair of the newly formed Women’s Football Association (WFA) but her tenure was short: she was rapidly asked to resign in favour of a man, Pat Gwynne, who was preferred by the FA. Dunn did however serve as vice-chair from 1969 to 1971, and 1972–3. The first secretary was Arthur Hobbs, who was one of the founding members of the Women's Football Association; he had to leave up the post in 1972 due to poor health; he was succeeded by Patricia Gregory (1972–1982). In 1971, under pressure from U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFA National League Premier Division
The FA Women's Premier League National Division (originally WFA National League Premier Division) was a football division in England. From 1991 until 2010, the National Division functioned as the top league in English women's football. During its final three seasons, the division operated as the second level of the league pyramid from 2010 to 2013. The division was played on a home and away basis, with each team playing each other twice, and points being awarded in the standard football format. Below the National Division were simultaneously the Northern and Southern divisions and the remainder of the women's football pyramid. The terms ''Women's Premiership'' and ''Ladies' Premiership'' thus generally referred to the National Division alone. The women's National League Premier Division was conceived as the counterpart to the men's football First Division/Premier League. Founded in 1991 by the Women's Football Association, the league was taken over and renamed "Premier Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Region Women's Football League
The Southern Region Women's Football League is at the fifth and sixth levels of the English women's football pyramid, with the seven other Regional Leagues – Eastern, London & SE, South West, West Midlands, East Midlands, North East and North West. The Southern Region Women's Football League promotes teams directly into the FA Women's National League Division 1 South West, and lies above the Hampshire Women's League and Thames Valley Women's Football League The Thames Valley Counties Women's Football League is a women's association football competition in England covering the counties within the Thames Valley region. The League consists of seven adult divisions and two under 18 divisions. The Leag ... in the pyramid. The pyramid structure was founded in 1998. Below the Premier Division, the two Division Ones are split geographically with Division One East and Division One West. The 2019/20 season was expunged due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. 2022-23 season The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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