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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). [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.
Scotland hosted the first organised games of women's football in 1881, [1] and the sport became popular in the 1920s, attracting crowds of thousands. Women's football was banned from English Football Association grounds in 1921; the Scottish Football Association (SFA) did not follow suit, although it was not supportive.
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 .
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.
All women's leagues in Scotland are part of a pyramid structure, with the Scottish Women's Premier League being at the top. Leagues become more regional at the bottom. Clubs are allowed numerous teams in the Leagues, however, no club can be permitted to have more than one team in each of the top two divisions.
Spartans Football Club Women's and Girl's is a women's football team that plays in the Scottish Women's Premier League, the top division of women's football in Scotland.. Spartans F.C. Women is part of Spartans F.C. in North Edinburgh and play and train at the club's training facili
Association football (Scots: fitbaa, Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise) is one of the national sports of Scotland [1] and the most popular sport in the country. [2] There is a long tradition of "football" games in Orkney, Lewis and southern Scotland, especially the Scottish Borders, although many of these include carrying the ball and passing by hand, and despite bearing the name "football" bear ...