The History of Women's Football.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Jean.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2022.

Summary:

A complete history of womens football, from its Victorian games beginning in 1881, to the plans for England to host the Euro Finals in England 2022. The author demonstrates how womens football began as a professional sport, and has only recently returned to these professional roots in the UK. This is because there was a fifty-year Football Association ban on women playing on pitches affiliated to the governing body in England. The other British associations followed suit. Why was womens football banned in 1921? Why did it take until 1969 for a Womens Football Association to form? Why did it take until 1995 for England to qualify for a Womens World Cup? Answers to these key questions are supplemented across the chapters by personal accounts of the players who defied the ban, at home and abroad, along with the personal costs, and rewards, of being footballing pioneers.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Honeyballers and Lady Florence Dixie

Chapter 2 Banned

Chapter 3 The Corinthians and Nomad Globe Trotters Ladies Football Club of Manchester

Chapter 4 Harry Batt's Touring Teams 1968-1972

Chapter 5 The Women's Football Association and the Women's National Team

Chapter 6 The First England Women Captains 1972-2000

Chapter 7 Professional Pioneers 1972-2022

The Future of Women's Football

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5267-8534-X

1-5267-8532-3

OCLC:

1321802637