Women's association football

Women's association football has been played for many decades, but was associated with charity games and
physical exercise in the past before the breakthrough of organized women's association football came in the 1970s.
Before the 1970s, football was basically seen as a men's game. Football is the most prominent team sport for
women in a few countries, and one of the few women's team sports with professional leagues.The growth in women's
football has seen major competitions being launched at both national and international level.
(For more information, see Women's association football around the world and International competitions in
women's association football respectively.) Women's football faced many struggles throughout its fight for right.
Although the women's football had its first golden age in the UK in early 1920s when some matches achieved
over 50,000 spectators,[1] but this was stopped on 5 December 1921 when England's Football Association voted to
ban the game from grounds used by its member clubs. The ban was cancelled in July 197