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     • With almost three million active female players, football is the biggest Women’s team sport in England – but there is plenty of room for more people to get involved.
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   Is England a women's football team?

   • The England women's national football team, nicknamed the Lionesses, has been governed by the Football Association (FA) since 1993, having been previously administered by the Women's Football Association (WFA). England played its first international match in November 1972 against Scotland.

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   Is football a female sport?

   • The FA has made huge strides in creating opportunities for women and girls to play our national sport. Indeed, football is now officially the biggest female team sport in England. Last season over female 147,000 players competed in affiliated league and cup competitions – a figure which has risen from just 10,400 in 1993, when records started.

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   Are men more likely to play football than women?

   • Men are more than two and a half times likelier to have played football than women: While over 60% of men have played on a football team, under a quarter of women have (23.3%). Let’s take a look at the responses from just the women: The statistics show that:

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   How many girls play football in Europe?

   • Remarkably, that represents an increase of over 100,000 from the 2018 survey, which found 669,000 girls had played football in a formal setting on the week of the survey. It’s a safe assumption that the England Euro 2022 victory played a part in encouraging more girls to take up football. How Many Women and Girls Play Football in Europe?

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   How many people in the UK play football?

   • So in total, 41.40% of adults in the UK have, at some stage of their lives, played on a football team. But this (unsurprisingly) varies considerably when we look at men and women. Men are more than two and a half times likelier to have played football than women:

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   What happened to women's football?

   • Yet for a long time, women were excluded from the sport, and women’s football was overlooked, underfunded, and even outright banned for decades. Today, women’s football continues to grow and develop; since 2017 the number of women’s football teams in England has doubled.

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4. www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-england-68239308Lioness effect: England women and girls' football teams ... - BBC

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   There are now twice as many registered female football teams in England as there were seven years ago, BBC analysis has found.

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   Jan 24, 2024 · Around 1 in 7 women in the UK plays on a football team according to our figures. 1 in 20 women in the UK have taken up football for the first time in their lives as adults (never played as children) 777,000 girls play football in England as of December 2022. That’s an increase from 669,000 just four years earlier.

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   Sep 26, 2024 · England has a strong national football team, which ranked 4th in FIFA’s ranking of women’s football teams. The team, nicknamed the Lionesses, played its first international in 1972...

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   Indeed, football is now officially the biggest female team sport in England. Last season over female 147,000 players competed in affiliated league and cup competitions – a figure which has risen from just 10,400 in 1993, when records started.

9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › England_women's_nationalEngland women's national football team - Wikipedia

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   The England women's national football team, nicknamed the Lionesses, has been governed by the Football Association (FA) since 1993, having been previously administered by the Women's Football Association (WFA). England played its first international match in November 1972 against Scotland.

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    Sep 27, 2024 · ensures any talented girl, from any background, can be referred onto the England radar, while the 21 Professional Game Academies are delivering crucial work to prepare young players for senior football. The Adobe Women's FA Cup Final has attracted record crowds in the last two seasons.

11. www.itv.com › news › 2022/12/21Female players registered with the FA up by 12.5% post Euros ...

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    Dec 21, 2022 · The number of female players registered with the Football Association has risen by 12.5 per cent in the aftermath of England’s Euro 2022 triumph. Sarina Wiegman’s Lionesses made history in ...