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In 1993, the FA took over the running of women's football in England from the WFA, replacing Bilton with Ted Copeland as national team manager. [5]: 105 England managed to qualify for UEFA Women's Euro 1995, having previously missed out on the last three editions, but were beaten 6–2 on aggregate over two legs against Germany. [16]
England won the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 final against Germany. The following tables show the England women's national football team's all-time international record. The statistics are composed of FIFA Women's World Cup and UEFA Women's Championship matches, as well as numerous international friendly tournaments and matches. [note 1]
The present national league system in women's football in England was created by the Women's Football Association. The WFA's Women's National League divisions played their first season in 1991–92. In previous decades, there had been women's Regional Leagues, [37] [38] which continue today.
This is a list of England women's international footballers – association football players who have played for the England women's national football team. This table takes into account all official England matches. Legacy numbers were introduced in November 2022 to mark the 50th anniversary of an official England women's team. [1]
The Women's Super League launched in 2011 is the nation's first professional women's football league, developed ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics hosted in London and inaugurated around the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. It restructured to become fully professional in 2018, making it the only fully professional league in Europe at the time.
The SFA was resisting pressure from UEFA to take over the administration of women's football. In 1971 the European member associations had voted 39–1 in favour of UEFA's motion that they take control of women's football, with Scotland voting against. [7] In Scotland football was traditionally seen as a working class, male preserve. A 1921 ban ...
England's UEFA Women's Championship Record includes reaching the UEFA Women's Championship final thrice, in 1984, 2009 and 2022, winning the latter tournament on home soil. England women have also been losing semi-finalists on three occasions, and got knocked out in the finals group stage three times.
Christine Sinclair of Canada is the all-time leading goalscorer for women's national teams. This page lists the top all-time goalscorer for each women's national football team. This list is not an all-time top international goalscorers list, as several countries have two or more players with more goals than another country's top scorer.