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The Women's Football Alliance (WFA) is a semi-pro full-contact Women's American football league that began play in 2009. It is the largest 11-on-11 football league for women in the world, and the longest running active women's football league in the U.S. Since 2016, the league has operated with three competitive levels: Pro, Division 2 and ...
The Dallas Elite Women's Football team is an American women's tackle football team playing in Division I of the Women's Football Alliance (WFA). The team, based in and around Dallas, Texas, was founded in 2014. The Dallas Elite reached the playoffs and national championship game three years in a row, 2015–2017.
The league was known as the "Women's Spring Football League" from 2009 to 2015. The USWFL played with 11-player and 8-player divisions from 2011 through 2013. In 2014, the league split into two leagues, with the 11-woman division retaining the WSFL name and the 8-woman division taking the name the Women's Eights Football League (W8FL). In 2016 ...
The Wisconsin Wolves are a Women's Football Alliance (WFA) team based in Wausau, Wisconsin. The team was founded in 2006 and play their home games at Lussier Stadium on the campus of Madison La Follette High School. The Wolves were the third Wisconsin WPFL franchise founded in the state (following the Wisconsin Riveters and the Kenosha Northern Ice
The WNFC played their inaugural season in 2019 with fourteen regular teams and one exhibition team. Five teams came to the WNFC from the Independent Women's Football League (which folded after the 2018 season), three from the WFA, two from the USWFL, and five were teams playing their inaugural season in the WNFC.
She’d already heard that women were making moves as coaches in the NFL: In 2020, former San Francisco 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers became the first woman to coach in a Super Bowl, and ...
Most leagues in the United States, such as the Women's Football Alliance, play by rules similar to men's tackle football. [1] Although women's flag football is emerging as a collegiate sport, [2] women playing gridiron football at the college level have historically joined men's teams, often (though not exclusively) as placekickers. [3]
The National Women's Football Association (NWFA) was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The league was founded by Catherine Masters in 2000, as the two benchmark teams, the Alabama Renegades and the Nashville Dream played each other six times in exhibition games.