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Women's association football, more commonly known as women's football or women's soccer, [a] [b] is the team sport of association football played by women. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries , and 187 national teams participate internationally . [ 4 ]
Originally called the United States Interregional Women's League, the USL W-League was formed in 1995 as the first national women's soccer league, [28] [29] [30] providing a professional outlet for many of the top female soccer players in the country. It also allowed college players the opportunity to play alongside established international ...
The WUSA Reorganization Committee was formed in September 2003, which led to the Women's Soccer Initiative, Inc. (WSII). The WSII's goal was "promoting and supporting all aspects of women's soccer in the United States", including a new professional league. [36] Initial plans were to play a scaled-down WUSA schedule in 2004.
Feeding on the momentum of their victory, the eight-team league formed in February 2000, the U.S. Soccer Federation approved membership of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) as a sanctioned Division 1 women's professional soccer league on August 18, 2000, and the league began playing its first season in April 2001. It would be the ...
The team played its first match at the Mundialito tournament on August 18, 1985, coached by Mike Ryan, in which they lost 1–0 to Italy.In March 2004, two of its stars, Mia Hamm (who retired later that year after a post-Olympic team tour of the US) and Michelle Akers (who had already retired), were the only two women and the only two Americans named to the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest ...
1996 – Women's soccer and women's softball became medal sports at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta for the first time; both events were won by US teams. [46] 1996 – The first baseball glove made to fit a woman's hand was sold by Spalding Sports. [46]
The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a women's professional soccer league at the top of the United States league system (alongside the USL Super League). [1] The league comprises 14 teams (16 in 2026). [2] Headquartered in New York City, [3] it is owned by the teams and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation. [4]
The 2015 Women's World Cup Final between the United States and Japan was the most watched soccer match, men's or women's, in American broadcast history. [105] It averaged 23 million viewers and higher ratings than the NBA finals and the Stanley Cup finals.