Who says playing soccer is only for men? Well, you must be wrong since lots of women are also engaging to this particular sport nowadays. There are also a number of soccer parents-- even soccer mom-- who send their players to soccer training. They even send their girls to this healthy sport activities.



Anybody who thinks that women's soccer is a new idea could not be more wrong. Women have been playing this particular sport for as long as it has existed. Long before Premiership leagues and cup contests were established, women were thought to have played the sport in some of the most ancient of civilizations-- as early as during that time. There is evidence that a version of football was played by women in the Han Dynasty in China-- in the far east. This just implies the sport was possibly played as early as 25-250CE.

The women Europe were the next to take on the challenge. It is believed that French women played the soccer sport as early as the 12th century. This would have been an integrated part of local folk festivals and celebrations. There is evidence of an annual soccer competition being played in the highlands of Scotland from about 1790.

In 1863 there came an essential rule change in the sport of soccer all together. The governing bodies established rules prohibiting violence on the pitch. That had little effect on women at first however soon soccer was seen as something that was socially acceptable for women players to play. In Scotland, the first recorded and official soccer game for women was in 1892 and in England 1895.

In 1894 a woman named Nettie Honeyball established the women's football league in England. It was an effort to emancipate women from men. She had very clear views and worked to recognize women from the idea that they were nothing but useless things for men to look at. The women's football league was frowned upon but continued on even in the absence of any support from British football associations.

Women's football continued to grow in popularity. As a matter of fact some of the crowds rivaled those of men's teams. In 1921 both the English and Scottish football leagues both banned women from playing on pitches owned by the FA. It was thought that this move was in part due to jealousy of the overwhelming success women achieved in football.

The said ban on women playing on member grounds was not lifted until 1971. But, there was a lot of interest in the sport brewing before that. In 1966, England had won the world cup. This ignited all kinds of new interests and development of the sport. One of these was women's football. All over Europe women's professional teams were beginning to for.