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2020–21 West Ham United F.C. Women Season
The 2020–21 West Ham United F.C. Women season was the club's 30th season in existence and their third in the FA Women's Super League, the highest level of the Women's football in England#Pyramid, football pyramid. Along with competing in the WSL, the club also contested two domestic cup competitions: the FA Women's Cup, FA Cup and the FA Women's League Cup, League Cup. On 29 July 2020, the club announced they had signed a one-year deal with Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. to play at Victoria Road, Dagenham, Victoria Road for the season having previously played at the Rush Green training ground stadium. Manager Matt Beard departed the club by mutual consent on 19 November 2020 with the club sat in 9th place in the league. He had been in charge since the team joined the WSL in June 2018. Billy Stewart (footballer, born 1965), Billy Stewart assumed the role on an interim basis until Olli Harder, having most recently been assistant manager at Norwegian men's Norwegian First Division, sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''vest'' in Romanian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος Hesperus, hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin Occident, occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב (maarav) 'west' from עֶרֶב (erev) 'evening'. West is sometimes abbreviated as W. Naviga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Football In England
Women's association football, Women's football has been played in England for over a century, sharing a common history with the men's game in the country in which the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game were codified. Women's Association football, 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 2005 UEFA Women's Championship, 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 Centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nor Mustafa
Nor Mustafa (; born 29 November 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Saudi Women's Premier League club Eastern Flames. Born in Sweden, she plays for the Syria national team. Club career Mustafa joined West Ham in July 2020, becoming West Ham's fifth signing of the summer. Mustafa made her debut on 6 September coming on in the 81st minute in a 1–1 draw with Tottenham. She was transferred to French Division 2 Féminine club Le Havre in September 2021. International career On 12 February 2024, the Syrian Football Association announced that Mustafa had switched her FIFA nationality and became eligible to represent Syria at international stage. She joined the team for the 2024 WAFF Women's Championship, and made her debut on 13 February 2024, in a pre-tournament friendly 1–0 defeat against Lebanon. Personal life Mustafa is of Syrian Kurdish The Kurdish population of Syria is the country's largest ethnic minority, usually estimated at arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateřina Svitková
Kateřina Svitková (born 20 March 1996) is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Slavia Prague and the Czech Republic national team. She previously played for West Ham United and Chelsea. Early life Svitková was born in Plzeň and played with the boys' teams at Viktoria Plzeň. Club career Svitková was along Kirsten van de Ven the top assister of the 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League, where Slavia reached the quarterfinals. Svitková was named 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020 Czech Footballer of the Year (women). In the 2016–17 and 2017–18 season she was the top scorer of the Czech Women's First League. International career Svitková made her debut for the Czech national team in a February 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying 6–1 loss against Italy, and went on to lead the team's scoring in those qualifiers with 5 goals. Career statistics :''Scores and results list the Czech Republic's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leanne Kiernan
Leanne Kiernan (born 27 April 1999) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a Striker (association football), striker for Women's Super League club Liverpool F.C. Women, Liverpool and the Republic of Ireland women's national football team, Republic of Ireland national team. Early life Born in Bailieborough in County Cavan, Kiernan attended Bailieborough Community School, where she played for the girls futsal team. She played with Bailieboro Celtic and, at the age of 12, with the boys team at Kingscourt Harps, where she was spotted by Football Association of Ireland, FAI scout Mark Leavy and selected for their emerging talent programme. Outside of soccer, Kiernan had been an accomplished cross-country runner, winning the Ulster club juvenile cross-country championship four times with Shercock Athletic Club, and finishing fourth in the Irish U-13 cross-country championships in 2011. She also played Gaelic football for Cavan up to U-16 level. She lived with her family on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alisha Lehmann
Alisha Debora Lehmann (born 21 January 1999) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Juventus and the Switzerland national team. She is the most followed woman footballer in the world on Instagram. Club career BSC YB Frauen After beginning her career at age nine with FC Konolfingen, where she played from 2008 to 2011, Lehmann joined the U14 BSC YB team as a 12-year-old. She also trained with the U13 to U15 boys' teams three times a week and played in two matches on the male junior teams. Lehmann started her senior professional career at Swiss club BSC YB at age 17. In her first season, she scored a hat-trick in a 3–0 win against FC Staad. She was top scorer for her team that season with nine goals. She went on to score 25 goals in 52 league appearances during her time at the club. West Ham United Newly-professional FA Women's Super League club West Ham United signed Lehmann from BSC YB Frauen in August 2018. It was reported that We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (association Football)
The captain of a association football, football/soccer 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. In the 2024/25 edition of the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, it was made mandatory for each team to have a captain and for each captain to be identified by the previously traditional but non-mandatory captain's armband. Responsibilities The only official responsibility of a captain specified by the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game is to participate in the Coin flipping, coin toss prior to Kick-off (association football), kick-off (for choice of ends or to have kick-off) and prior to a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out. Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilly Flaherty
Gilly Louise Scarlett Flaherty (born 24 August 1991) is an English former footballer who played as a centre-back. Flaherty began her career in the youth teams of Millwall Lionesses and Arsenal, and made her debut for the Arsenal Ladies senior team in 2006. She later played in the Women's Super League for Chelsea Women, West Ham United Ladies and Liverpool Women. Flaherty represented England at youth level before making her senior debut in October 2015. Flaherty previously held the record for the most appearances in the Women's Super League, playing in her record-breaking 176th game in November 2022 to overtake previous holder Jill Scott. She announced her retirement from football halfway through the 2022–23 WSL season. Early life Born in Rotherhithe / Bermondsey, Flaherty grew up in the London Borough of Southwark, located directly south of the River Thames. She was educated at Addey and Stanhope School, a secondary school located in New Cross, London, where she was a He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maz Pacheco
Mayumi "Maz" Pacheco (; born 25 August 1998) is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Women's Super League club Everton. A former England youth international, she received her first senior call-up for the Philippines in 2024. Club career Pacheco made a failed bid to join the youth team of FA WSL 1 side Liverpool in 2013 by participating in the club's trial. She managed to secure a place in the youth team the following year. Pacheco began her senior career with Liverpool in 2015. She made her club debut on 25 March in a league loss to Sunderland. 11 more appearances followed during the 2015 and 2016 seasons before Pacheco left to join Doncaster Rovers Belles on loan for the remainder of the 2016 campaign. She went onto make 12 appearances and score 1 goal prior to signing a permanent contract at the beginning of 2017. In July 2018, Pacheco signed for Reading, after helping Doncaster Rover Belles win the WSL 2 title. On 8 June 2020, Reading announced that Pache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilie Redisch Kvamme
Cecilie Redisch Kvamme (born 11 September 1995) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Toppserien club Brann and Norway. Kvamme was born in Norway and played youth football for Tertnes before starting her professional career with Arna-Bjornar just outside Bergen. After a short spell at Sandviken, she joined English WSL club West Ham West Ham is a district in East London, England and is in the London Borough of Newham. It is an inner-city suburb located east of Charing Cross. The area was originally an ancient parish formed to serve parts of the older Manor of Ham, a ... in 2019. She played two seasons with West Ham before returning to Sandviken in 2021. Kvamme currently has five caps for Norway. Career statistics Club ''As of 21 May 2021.'' References External links * 1995 births Living people Footballers from Bergen Norwegian women's footballers 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen Norway women's youth internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mackenzie Arnold
Mackenzie Elizabeth Arnold (born 25 February 1994), also known by her nickname Macca, is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for National Women's Soccer League club Portland Thorns FC and the Australia national team. She previously played for West Ham United in England's Women's Super League as well as Brisbane Roar, Perth Glory, Western Sydney Wanderers, and Canberra United in Australia's W-League and Arna-Bjørnar in Norway's Toppserien. Early life Mackenzie Arnold was born and raised on the Gold Coast. She played junior football for Burleigh Heads as well as Robina City and attended Palm Beach Currumbin State High School in her teenage years. Club career Canberra United In 2012, Arnold joined Canberra United from Perth Glory ahead of the 2012–13 W-League. Western Sydney Wanderers FC Arnold joined Western Sydney Wanderers in 2013. However, she was later ruled out for a significant amount of the season after suffering a deep cut to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandnes Ulf
Sandnes Ulf is a Norwegian association football club from Sandnes, Rogaland, currently playing in the 2. divisjon, the third highest division in the Norwegian football league system. The club play their home matches at Øster Hus Arena. The club was founded on 1 June 1911 as SK Ulf, and today has over 80 registered teams, making it the largest football club in Rogaland. Sandnes Ulf play in light blue jerseys, white shorts and light blue socks. Sandnes Ulf is an open member association and the annual general meeting is the highest policy-making body. The meeting approves the accounts and elects the chairman and board. Stig Ravndal is the current chairman, elected in 2012. Daily operations are run by a managing director who liaises with the chairman. Sandnes Ulf's official fan club is known as Gaukereiret ("The Cuckoo's Nest"), reflecting on the nickname for people from Sandnes; Sandnes-cuckoos. History The sport of football came directly to Sandnes from its home country, Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
