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Monday 30th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Sunderland’s magnificent season keeps going from strength to strength and they regained the leadership of the National Division with a 2-0 victory over Chelsea.
Following on from their win…
Sunday 29th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Stoke City grabbed a place in the Third Round of the F.A.Women’s Cup with a late winner in an exciting match against Copsewood (Coventry).
Emma Sanders scored an 88th minute goal to decide a…
Saturday 28th November 2009
from Essex FA
by Polly C
Fairlop Oak Powerleague was brimming with activity this November thanks to the launch of the Essex County Football Association’s Girls Disability Central Venue League, with up to 50 girls from…
Friday 27th November 2009
by Demi Yates
Is there any 16-18 year old girls who live in the wolverhampton area who are lookin to play for an uder 18’s football team ?? if there is any send me an email plz an i will get back to you…
Friday 27th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Glasgow City are celebrating a hat-trick of Scottish Women’s Premier League title successes following their 4-1 victory over Hibernian on Sunday and Jane Ross feels that it is getting tougher for…
Friday 27th November 2009
from Give Me Football
by Polly C
Givemefootball’s Ian Clarkson speaks to Esther Slater, player-assistant manager of Stratford Town in the West Midlands League Premier Division.
With England ladies reaching the final of the…
Thursday 26th November 2009
from The Times
by Polly C
Everything is relative. Women’s football in England is viewed as a niche interest with scant profile, but there are 150,000 registered players. That is half as many women as those who play the…
Thursday 26th November 2009
from The Guardian
by Polly C
Injuries, illness, work and family commitments have conspired to severely restrict the team selection options of the England coach Hope Powell for tomorrow’s World Cup qualifier against Turkey in…
Thursday 26th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Jess Thomas
England women scored three goals in the last 13 minutes to earn what in the end was a comfortable World Cup qualifying victory over Turkey in Izmir.
Hope Powell was scathing in her criticism of…
Thursday 26th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Kelly McDougall has urged her Sunderland team mates to build on their 2-1 victory over Arsenal at the weekend.
The midfielder became the first player to score a match winning goal against the…
Wednesday 25th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
England have been forced to make three changes to their squad for this week’s FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifying match against Turkey.
Carly Telford has been drafted into the squad in place of…
Wednesday 25th November 2009
by Polly C
Slough Ladies FC are delighted to announce the arrival of Tony Milstead as new 1st Team Manager/Coach, bringing with him a wealth of experience at both Junior and Senior level. He has been at QPR…
Tuesday 24th November 2009
by michael wallace
hi, we are beechfield utd under 13s girl based in manchester. we would like £800 to fund our winter training at a cost of £40 per week and to buy training jackets and sports bags as we would like…
Tuesday 24th November 2009
from Crystal Palace LFC
by Polly C
Crystal Palace Ladies FC and the Priory School Girls Football Development Centre are recruiting now for September 2010.
Courses are available for Year 12 and 13 students (ages 16-19) and…
Tuesday 24th November 2009
from Essex FA
by Polly C
Demand was extremely high for places at a girls’ 4v4 football festival on Sunday at Clacton Leisure Centre to encourage new teams to take part in a number of games for the very first time, with…
Monday 23rd November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Sunderland came from behind to record a shock 2-1 victory over Champions Arsenal and cause one of the Premier League’s biggest surprises in many seasons.
The Gunners had won 5-1 when the sides…
Monday 23rd November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
On a day when the only other Premier League unbeaten record was unexpectedly swept away on Wearside, Liverpool did an efficient job of maintaining their 100% Northern Division tally at bottom of…
Monday 23rd November 2009
from The FA
by Polly C
New referees benefit from local college link-up.
This initiative is fully endorsed and supported by The FA and delivered in partnership with the Hampshire County FA.
As part of the Btec…
Sunday 22nd November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Top of the league Chelsea extended their lead to three points with a 4-2 victory over Bristol Academy on Thursday evening at Metropolitan Police F.C.
After the Blues had stunned their West…
Sunday 22nd November 2009
from The Yorker
by Polly C
On Wednesday, the University of York’s Women’s Football 1sts travelled to Hull to play their first, and unfortunately last, BUCS cup match. York were hoping for a successful match, however were…
Sunday 22nd November 2009
from Bolton News
by Polly C
Bolton Wanderers Ladies believe they can capitalise on the success of the women’s national team by moving their club to the next level.
They have set the ultimate goals of becoming fully…
Sunday 22nd November 2009
by Dave Maslen
Barking FC 0- 7 West Ham UTD
West Ham Ladies under 10 squad travelled to Barking Ladies today and gave an impressive performance with a 7-0 win making it seven games…
Friday 20th November 2009
from Goole Courier
by Polly C
PLAYING a side only two divisions off the top of the women’s football pyramid, Goole Town Vikings put in a battling performance and made the Northern Combination League side fight all the way for…
Friday 20th November 2009
from Doncaster Rovers Belles
by Polly C
FREE-scoring Doncaster Belles are in eleventh heaven…
And they will be hoping to avoid being brought back down to earth with a bump against Premier League pacesetters Chelsea on…
Thursday 19th November 2009
from Fair Game
by Polly C
Liverpool right back Sam Chappell has been called up to the England squad for the first time in her career, writes Kelly Cornwell.
Chappell will meet up at a training camp with the England…
Thursday 19th November 2009
from Derby Telegraph
by Polly C
DERBY County will be at full strength for the first time this season as they prepare for a crucial game against Curzon Ashton on Sunday.
Victory for the Rams would see them pull further away…
Thursday 19th November 2009
from Moulton College, Northamptonshire FA
by Polly C
The Football Academy is a partnership between Moulton College, Northampton Town FC and Northamptonshire FA and is open to girls who wish to study for a national qualification and improve their…
Wednesday 18th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Bitton manager Steve Jones is delighted with his team’s performances in the opening weeks of the season as they sit on top of Division Two in the Gloucestershire County Women’s League.
However…
Wednesday 18th November 2009
from Sunderland WFC
by Polly C
Great news!
Sunderland are offering a promotion voucher for their National Division match at home to Arsenal this Sunday.
There will be a FREE admission voucher for a child for the game,…
Tuesday 17th November 2009
from FIFA
by Polly C
With Marta heading home for the maiden Copa Libertadores, Europe’s best competing for Germany 2011 berths and the world’s top club teams jostling for position, it has been another exciting and…
Tuesday 17th November 2009
from Local News Glasgow
by Polly C
The Great Britain Women’s Deaf Football Team came within an ace of medal placings at the 2009 Deaflympics in Taipei, Taiwan, this summer, only to be beaten into fourth by a controversial Russian…
Tuesday 17th November 2009
by Justine Currell
I run 2 girls self-funding football teams. We’re now in our fourth year of playing and the girls are doing extremely well. We have a constant battle to meet the costs of paying for training…
Monday 16th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Cardiff City striker Natasha Harding is hoping to become the next Gabby Logan, as she is carving out a career as a television presenter.
20-year-old Welsh international Natasha is currently at…
Monday 16th November 2009
from The Guardian - Catherine Bennett
by Polly C
A few years back, the president of Fifa, a Mr Sepp Blatter, proposed a novel way of making women’s football more popular. Why, he suggested, did the players not wear “tighter shorts … to create a…
Monday 16th November 2009
from Sunderland Echo
by Polly C
Sunderland lost their place at the top of the league after a heavy defeat at champions Arsenal. The Gunners maintained their 100 per cent start to the season with their sixth successive win, and…
Sunday 15th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Chelsea returned to the top of the National Division with a 5-3 victory over Everton, ending the Toffees' winning start to the season.
Everton were forced to field midfielder Emily Westwood in…
Sunday 15th November 2009
from The Guardian
by Polly C
Five years ago, Hope Powell sat down with calendar, squad sheet, and a list of all the young footballers emerging through the ranks of English women’s football, and did some algebra. Take a…
Sunday 15th November 2009
from an anonymous blogger (understandably!)
by Polly C
We found this rather amusing account of the incomprehensible thoughts of a guy (who is ever so slightly, er, sexist) and some of his replies. Thought you might like to comment:
“Seriously…
Saturday 14th November 2009
from CNN
by Polly C
Al Ram, West Bank (CNN) — The Faisal al Husseini football stadium was packed, two hours before kick off, with a noisy sea of Palestinian flags and white hijabs.
Football matches are always a…
Friday 13th November 2009
from FIFA
by Polly C
Every week on the Arsenal bench, there sits a man who has revolutionised English football, achieved huge success and earned a reputation for developing exceptional talent. Beside him sits Arsene…
Friday 13th November 2009
from Essex FA
by Polly C
Football Association Ambassador and referee, Lorraine Deschamps, returned to the Essex County Football Association’s Female Sevens League this October, one year on from attending last year’s event…
Friday 13th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
OOH Lincoln have secured the signature of centre half or centre midfielder Jade Radburn.
Jade has represented both the English and Great Britain Universities squads – the latter at the world…
Thursday 12th November 2009
from Northop Hall Girls FC - click here to get in touch!
by Polly C
Live in North Wales? Fancy some women’s football?
Northop Hall Girls FC are looking to build an open age side ready to play competitive football starting next summer (2010-11).
NORTHOP HALL…
Thursday 12th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Arsenal 2 (Heroldova og 31, Little 55) Sparta Prague 0
Arsenal won 5-0 on aggregate.
Arsenal eased into the quarter finals of the UEFA Women’s Champions League as a goal in each half saw…
Thursday 12th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Dudley Utd’s superb F.A.Women’s Cup run continued with a 2-1 victory over TNS Ladies, which takes the West Midlands League Division One South team into the Second Round.
Next up for Dudley…
Thursday 12th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Bristol Academy moved off the bottom of the National Division with a 1-0 victory over Birmingham City on Thursday night.
Captain Grace McCatty scored what turned out to be the only goal of the…
Thursday 12th November 2009
from Chester Chronicle
by Polly C
A CHESTER schoolteacher has become the most capped player in the history of Welsh women’s football .
Cheryl Foster, a PE teacher and head of year at Bishops’ High School, won her 52nd cap in…
Wednesday 11th November 2009
from YouTube - click here to watch it!
by Polly C
Once the darlings of American sport for their global success, women’s football players are now internet video hits thanks to a hair-pulling harridan and a set of US teen girls gone…
Wednesday 11th November 2009
from The Guardian
by Polly C
The recent takeover of Birmingham City by the Hong Kong businessman Carson Yeung should bring huge benefits to the Blues women’s team, who for the first time since their formation 41 years ago are…
Tuesday 10th November 2009
from Nouse, York Uni
by Polly C
When the pre-match huddle is used as an eleventh hour opportunity to learn your teammates’ names, it’s fair to say that your chances of success hang by a thread. And so it proved for the women’s…
Monday 9th November 2009
from Nottingham
by Polly C
Forest footballer Lyndsey Cunningham has been picked to play for England – and is backing Nottingham’s World Cup bid for a chance to play at the Wembley for Women.
The 18-year-old is the…
Monday 9th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Chelsea’s hopes of going back on top of the National Division were shattered as Arsenal fought back from two goals down to beat them 3-2.
Chelsea got off to a flying start with Lianne…
Monday 9th November 2009
from Northamptonshire FA
by Polly C
Sheffield & Hallamshire FA Girls 9 v 0 Northamptonshire FA Girls Sunday 8th November 09 – Midland Youth Championship
Following a sparkling performance against Leicestershire, expectations…
Monday 9th November 2009
from Isle of Wight - Sport England
by Polly C
GIRLS’ football is better off to the tune of £8,000 after the IW Council’s sports unit secured a grant from Sport England.
The aim of the grant is to encourage football clubs to form…
Monday 9th November 2009
by Dave Maslen
West Ham 2-0 Loass
West Ham’s under 10 girls battled their way to a 2-0 victory away to Loass today in a game that saw new goalkeeper Sindi Kanto pull off some great saves giving a excellent…
Sunday 8th November 2009
from Northumberland Gazette
by Polly C
LUCY Staniforth and her Sunderland Ladies colleagues have gone top of the Women’s National Premier League for the first time in the club’s history. The Lady Black Cats came from a goal down to…
Sunday 8th November 2009
from Sport Sister
by Polly C
We recently discovered this gem of a magazine, and thought that Girls in Football members might be excited by it too:
Sportsister.com was launched in April 2008 and it quickly became the home…
Sunday 8th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Glasgow City lifted the Scottish Women’s Premier League Cup on Saturday afternoon with a 3-1 win over Hibernian at Recreation Park, Alloa.
As Cup holders, City were determined to hold on to…
Saturday 7th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Three sisters are taking the phrase ‘keeping it in the family’ to a whole new level after impressing coaches at Blackburn Rovers' Centre of Excellence.
For Jas Elliott, 15, and her two younger…
Saturday 7th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
England Head Coach Hope Powell has named her 22-player squad for the upcoming World Cup Qualifying Group fixture against Turkey.
England currently sit in second place in Group Five after…
Saturday 7th November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
It is the first chance for honours in Scotland this Saturday when Glasgow City face Hibernian in the Scottish Women’s Premier League Cup Final at Alloa and City striker Suzanne Malone knows, more…
Friday 6th November 2009
from The FA
by Polly C
Upload your goals to enter The FA’s Goal of the Month competition.
The FA and Sky Sports TV pundit Chris Kamara have teamed up to ask amateur footballers from up and down the land to show off…
Friday 6th November 2009
from Mark Douglas, The Journal
by Polly C
The North East is bidding for one of eight berths in the soon-to-be-created women’s Super League – but it may not be straightforward for Sunderland and Newcastle. Mark Douglas reports
WOMEN’S…
Friday 6th November 2009
from Hampshire FA
by Polly C
Hampshire FA Join the Fight to raise over £2,000
Throughout October over 35 female teams and 18 referees in association with Hampshire FA made special efforts to raise money for Cancer Research…
Thursday 5th November 2009
from S1 Sports - click here to watch full video!
by Polly C
Casey Stoney and the England Ladies get their kit off in raunchy ‘protection’ ad for S1 Sport.
Click on the link above to watch the video in full.
S1 Sport makes specialist shin-pads and…
Thursday 5th November 2009
from The FA
by Polly C
The England Women’s Head Coach is named Sports Leader of the Year for 2009
England Women’s Head Coach, Hope Powell, has been named the Sunday Times Sports Leader of the Year for 2009….
Thursday 5th November 2009
from StreetStriker on Sky
by Polly C
The second series of ‘Coke Zero’ Presents: Wayne Rooney’s Street Striker returns to our screens this week on Sunday 8th November, across Sky1 HD and Sky 1, but this year there’s a record number of…
Wednesday 4th November 2009
from The Guardian
by Polly C
Full-time professionalism will be introduced to the English game when the eight-team Women’s Super League is launched in 2011, clubs have been told by the Football Association. The FA wants each…
Wednesday 4th November 2009
from North West Evening Mail
by Polly C
ENGLAND Women’s football star Fara Williams was on hand to pass on her skills to the next generation of Furness footballing talent last week.
Williams was one of the coaches at the FA Tesco…
Wednesday 4th November 2009
from UEFA
by Polly C
Arsenal LFC may have exited the UEFA Women’s Cup last season with a 6-0 quarter-final defeat at Umeå IK but they have taken to the new UEFA Women’s Champions League in style.
The 2006/07…
Wednesday 4th November 2009
from Crystal Palace LFC
by Polly C
Crystal Palace, of the FA Tesco Women’s Premier League Southern Division, are currently recruiting for a new First Team Manager, Senior squad Trainers and an Assistant First Team Coach.
The…
Tuesday 3rd November 2009
by Polly C
Last week saw the first female only JFO course run in Kettering at Southfields School.
The Junior Football Organisers Course is designed for 14 to 18 year olds who wish to get into coaching and…
Tuesday 3rd November 2009
from Soccer Tickets
by Polly C
Monday 21st December 2009 is a date to mark in your calendars. Once again the world’s best footballers both male and female will gather at the Zurich Kongresshaus for the 19th FIFA World Player…
Tuesday 3rd November 2009
from North Riding FA - click here for more info
by Polly C
How well do you know your young players? Do you really understand what motivates them, what they find difficult and how you can help to develop them? The FA Youth Award is a groundbreaking new…
Monday 2nd November 2009
from Women's Soccer Scene
by Polly C
Arsenal moved comfortably into the last four of the Premier League Cup with a 4-0 win over Southern Division opponents Keynsham Town on Sunday.
The Gunners were boosted by the welcome return…
Sunday 1st November 2009
by Polly C
West Ham UTD 2 – 2 Tottenham
West Ham UTD under 10"s were up againts a very strong Tottenham side today in a game that saw Tottenham go quickly into a two goal lead, not letting the…
Sunday 1st November 2009
from Portsmouth University
by Polly C
After the great result that the team achieved last week, the team went into their first away game with high hopes of coming away with three points. This week the women’s football team were given…
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