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The Women's World Invitation Tournament ( zh, 世界女子足球邀請賽), also known as the Chunghua Cup ( zh, 中華盃), was a triennial global invitational tournament for national and club teams in
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 t ...
. It was held four times, in
Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the ...
, Taiwan.


History

It was one of the most prestigious women's football events, prior to the advent of the Women's World Cup and Women's Olympic Football. The competitions were organised by the
Chinese Taipei Football Association Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA) is the governing body for football in the Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan). Its official name in Chinese is the Republic of China Football Association, but due to the political status of Taiw ...
and their success brought pressure on the global
governing body A governing body is a group of people that has the authority to exercise governance over an organization or political entity. The most formal is a government, a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make binding decisions in a taken ...
FIFA to organise its own women's football tournaments. SSG Bergisch Gladbach of West Germany was the most successful participant, with two titles. They signed Taiwan's Chou Tai-ying after the 1987 tournament.


Results


References


External links


RSSSF.com history page, with links to full results
{{Use dmy dates, date=October 2019 International association football competitions in Asia International association football competitions hosted by Taiwan Women's football in Taiwan Recurring sporting events established in 1978 International women's association football invitational tournaments