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Iraq Women's National Football Team
The Iraq women's national football team is the female representative football team for Iraq. History The Iraq women's team has its roots in futsal, a game with some similarities to football, played on an indoor court. Futsal has been more accessible to women in Iraq than football, and the Iraq Football Association has organized futsal tournaments with the intention to develop some of the players into football players. The team played its first international match in 2010. Iraq's first participation in a women's major football tournament was the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification. Results and fixtures The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled. ;Legend 2025 Coaching staff Manager history * Salah Radhi (20??–2024) *Abed ElWahab Abou Hil(2024–''present'') Players Current squad The following players were called up for the 2024 WAFF Women's Championship in February 2024 . ''Caps a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq and forms the eastern geographic boundary of the modern Middle East. Just beyond it lies southwestern Iran, where the region transitions into the Iranian plateau, Persian plateau, marking the shift from the Arab world to Iran. In the broader sense, the historical region of Mesopotamia also includes parts of present-day Iran (southwest), Turkey (southeast), Syria (northeast), and Kuwait. Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from around 10,000 BC. It has been identified as having "inspired some of the most important developments in human history, including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops, the development of cursive script, mathematics, astronomy, and agriculture". It is recognised as the cradle of some of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahra Alizadeh
Zahra or Zehra may refer to: Buildings and institutions *Alzahra University, female-only university in Tehran, Iran * Az-Zahraa Islamic Academy, school in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada * Al-Zahra Mosque, Sydney, Australia *Behesht-e Zahra, cemetery in Tehran, Iran * Ennejma Ezzahra ("Star of Zahra"), palace at Sidi Bou Said, northern Tunisia People * Zahra (name), female given name and surname, also spelt Zehra, Zohra, and other variants * Abd al-Zahra, male given name Places * Zahra, Ardabil, village in Iran * Zahra, Kuwait, an area in Kuwait * Žehra, village and municipality in Slovakia Other uses *'' Zahra'', film by Mohammad Bakri (2007) * Zahra Foundation Australia, anti-domestic violence organisation in Adelaide, South Australia *Zahrah, title character of Nnedi Okorafor's children's novel '' Zahrah the Windseeker'' See also * Al Zahra, neighborhood of Mecca, Saudi Arabia * Az Zahrah, village in San‘a’ Governorate, Yemen * Az Zuhrah District, in Al Hudaydah Gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2027 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup is scheduled to be the tenth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament will include 32 teams for the second time after FIFA announced the expansion of the tournament in July 2019. Spain are the defending champions, having won their first title in 2023. This will be the second and last edition of the tournament to be contested by 32 teams, with FIFA confirming an expansion to 48 teams for the next edition in 2031. On 17 May 2024, FIFA announced that Brazil won the hosting rights, making this the first FIFA Women's World Cup to be held in South America. Brazil will become the sixth country—after Sweden, the United States, Germany, France, and Canada—to host both the men's and women's World Cup, having hosted the former in 1950 and 2014. It is also the first country to host eight different FIFA competitions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's association football, football championship contested by List of women's national association football teams, women's national teams and organised by FIFA. The tournament, which took place from 20 July to 20 August 2023, was jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand. It was the first FIFA Women's World Cup with more than one host nation, as well as the first World Cup to be held across multiple List of football federations#Continental, confederations, as Australia is in the Asian Football Confederation, Asian confederation, while New Zealand is in the Oceania Football Confederation, Oceanian confederation. It was also the first Women's World Cup to be held in the Southern Hemisphere. This tournament was the first to feature an expanded format of 32 teams from the previous 24, replicating the format used for the FIFA World Cup, men's World Cup from 1998 FI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup was the eighth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international Women's association football, football championship contested by 24 List of women's national association football teams, women's national teams representing member associations of FIFA. It took place between 7 June and 7 July 2019, with 52 matches staged in nine cities in France, which was awarded the right to host the event in March 2015, the first time the country hosted the tournament. The tournament was the first Women's World Cup to use the video assistant referee (VAR) system. This was the second and last edition with 24 teams before expanding to 32 teams for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2023 tournament in Australia and New Zealand. The United States women's national soccer team, United States entered the competition as defending champions after winning the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2015 edition and successfully defended their title, with a 2–0 victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international soccer championship contested by the women's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Canada for the first time and by a North American country for the third time. Matches were played in six cities across Canada in five time zones. The tournament began on 6 June 2015, and finished with the final on 5 July 2015 with a United States victory over Japan. The 2015 tournament saw the World Cup expanded to 24 teams from 16 in 2011. Canada's team received direct entry as host and a qualification tournament of 134 teams was held for the remaining 23 places. With the expanded tournament, eight teams made their Women's World Cup debut. All previous Women's World Cup finalists qualified for the tournament, with defending champions Japan and returning champions Germany (2003, 2007) and the United States (1991, 1999) among the seeded teams. The 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup was the first FIFA Women's World Cup, the world championship for women's national football teams. It took place in Guangdong, China from 16 to 30 November 1991. FIFA, football's international governing body selected China as host nation as Guangdong had hosted a prototype world championship three years earlier, the 1988 FIFA Women's Invitation Tournament. Matches were played in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, as well as in Foshan, Jiangmen and Zhongshan. The competition was sponsored by Mars, Incorporated, maker of M&M's candy. With FIFA still reluctant to bestow their "World Cup" brand, the tournament was officially known as the 1st FIFA World Championship for Women's Football for the M&M's Cup. It was won by the United States, whose captain April Heinrichs formed a forward line dubbed the " Triple-Edged Sword" with Carin Jennings and Michelle Akers-Stahl. Jennings was named player of the tournament while Akers-Stahl's ten goals won t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA Women's World Cup
The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior list of women's national association football teams, women's national teams of the members of the FIFA, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's international governing body. The competition has been held every four years and one year after the men's FIFA World Cup since 1991, when the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup, inaugural tournament, then called the FIFA Women's World Championship, was held in China. Under the tournament's current format, national teams vie for the remaining 31 slots in a three-year qualification phase. The host nation's team is automatically entered as the first slot. The tournament, called the ''World Cup Finals'', is contested at venues within the host nation(s) over about one month. The nine FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments have been won by five national teams. The United States women's national soccer team, United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Zawraa SC
Al-Zawra'a Sports Club () is an Iraqi professional sports club based in Utayfia, Karkh District (near Tigris River), Baghdad. Their football team competes in the Iraq Stars League, the top-flight of Iraqi football. Al-Zawra'a have won the most major honours of any club in Iraq, having won 14 league titles, 16 Iraq FA Cups and 5 Iraqi Super Cups—all record totals. Al-Zawra'a also won the Baghdad Championship a joint-record three times. Al-Zawra'a have won the domestic double a record eight times and became only the second Iraqi team to win the domestic quadruple in the 1999–2000 season. In 2022, Al-Zawra'a opened the new all-seater Al-Zawraa Stadium which replaced the club's old ground at the same site. Al-Zawra'a finished fourth at the 1996–97 Asian Club Championship and were runners-up of the 1999–2000 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. Al-Zawra'a have competed in the AFC Champions League group stage three times and have reached the knockout rounds of the AFC Cup three ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Hilal SFC (women)
Al Hilal Saudi Women Football Club, commonly known as Al Hilal Ladies (), is a Saudi professional women's football club based in the capital Riyadh. The club is currently playing in the top division of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Women's Premier League. The club won the first women's football competition, the Kingdom Women's Community Football League in 2020. History Founded in 2007 as Challenge Women's Football Club. The team was the second-ever women's team in the country after Eastern Flames FC. In 2022 the team joined Al Hilal SFC. The first season under the new name was in 2022–23 which ended with Al Hilal finishing second to Al Nassr, scoring 76 goals the most goals in the season, with Al Hilal's Iraqi Shokhan Salihi finishing as the top scores with 42 goals in total. Players Current squad Notable Former players * Anastasiya Linnik * Mayara Gonçalves * Eman Hassan * Elizabeth Addo * Cynthia Konlan * Direen Mulla Bakr * Dima Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollstanäs SK
Bollstanäs SK is a Swedish professional football club located in Upplands Väsby in Stockholm County. Background Bollstanäs Sportklubb was formed in May 1922 and is one of the largest sports clubs in the Greater Stockholm area running a total of 93 teams (82 of which are youth teams) in football, basketball, handball and bandy. The first sections were basketball for girls and football for boys. The club has around 2,000 members and the current breakdown of teams is as follows: ;Men's Football * 27 youth teams * 2 senior teams ;Ladies Football * 11 youth teams * 3 senior teams ;Basketball * 16 youth teams * 2 senior teams ;Handball * 13 youth teams * 2 senior teams ;Bandy * 14 youth teams * 2 senior teams Since their foundation Bollstanäs SK has participated mainly in the middle and lower divisions of the Swedish football league system. The club currently plays in Division 3 Norra Svealand which is the fifth tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naft Al-Shamal SC
Naft Al-Shamal Sport Club (), is an Iraqi football team based in Kirkuk, that plays in the Iraqi First Division League. History The original Sharikat Naft Al-Shamal team (Northern Oil Company) was established in 1948, and its name was later changed to Al-Amaliyat Al-Naftiya Al-Mahdouda. Naft Al-Shamal SC was founded in 1977, and its name was later changed to Wahid Huzairan. In 2017, it returned to the name Naft Al-Shamal. In addition to the fact that the club has a team that plays in the Iraqi Second Division League, it also has another team that plays in the Kurdistan Premier League, and a women's team that plays in the Iraqi Women's Football League. Honours Women's team *Iraqi Women's Football League The Iraqi Women's Football League () is the league competition for women's football in Iraq. It is run by the Iraq Football Association and was first played in the 2015–16 season. The league currently consists of seven teams. The current champ ... **Winners (1): 2020–21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
