The Egyptian Women's Premier League ( ar, الدوري المصري الممتاز للسيدات) is the top flight of
women's association football
Women's association football, more commonly known simply as women's football or women's soccer, is a team sport of association football when played by women only. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries and 176 national te ...
in
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
. The competition is run by the
Egyptian Football Association
The Egyptian Football Association ( ar, الاتحاد المصري لكرة القدم) is the governing body of football in Egypt. A member of FIFA since 1923 and a founding member of CAF, the EFA has jurisdiction for the Egyptian football lea ...
.
History
The championship was created in 1998. Maaden LFC won the first championship as well as the next three. The competition was stopped from 2003 to 2007. The championship was dominated after by
Wadi Degla with ten consecutive titles from 2008 to 2018. The championship will be abandoned during the 2010–2011 season due to the
Egyptian revolution of 2011
The 2011 Egyptian revolution, also known as the 25 January revolution ( ar, ثورة ٢٥ يناير; ), began on 25 January 2011 and spread across Egypt. The date was set by various youth groups to coincide with the annual Egyptian "Police ho ...
but returned one season after.
Champions
The list of champions and runners-up:
Most successful clubs
* Rq:
:''Goldi LSC (ex. El Maaden LSC)''
See also
*
Egyptian Women's Cup
References
External links
EFA official website
{{Top level women's association football leagues around the world
Women's association football leagues in Africa
Women's football competitions in Egypt
Women
A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or Adolescence, adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female hum ...
1998 establishments in Egypt
Sports leagues established in 1998
Football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...