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The Scotland women's national football team represents Scotland in international women's football competitions. Since 1998, the team has been governed by the Scottish Football Association (SFA). Scotland qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time in 2019 , and for their first UEFA Women's Championship in 2017 .
The Scotland women's national football team represents Scotland in international women's football competitions. Since 1998, the team has been governed by the Scottish Football Association (SFA). [1] Scotland qualified in the FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time in 2019, and qualified for their first UEFA Women's Euro in 2017.
Women's association football in Scotland has an organised history including the first international women's match in 1881, [1] [2] the president of the British Ladies' Football Club in 1895, Lady Florence Dixie, [2] [3] the Edinburgh–Preston "World Championship" in 1937 [4] and 1939, [5] [6] and the Scottish Women's Cup founded in 1970.
A women's section was established in June 2007 when Celtic took over Arsenal North L.F.C., [3] founding a Girls and Women's Football Academy at the same time. [4] [5] Celtic reached the 2008 Scottish Women's Cup final (doing so in their inaugural season, as the men's team had done 119 years earlier), losing 3–1 to Hibernian after extra time.
Dundee United Football Club Women is a Scottish women's association football club based in Dundee that is affiliated with the professional men's club Dundee United F.C. Founded in 2015, they play in Scottish Women's Premier League 1, the first tier of the national league system, after winning promotion from the second tier in 2021–22 and third tier in 2018.
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