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  2. Women's Football Alliance - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Football Alliance was established in 2009 and began its inaugural season with 36 teams. Many of the teams were already established teams from other leagues such as Women's Professional Football League, Independent Women's Football League and National Women's Football Association, while others began their inaugural season of play in the WFA.

  3. Women's Professional Football League - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Professional American Football League (WPFL) was a women's professional American football league in the United States. With teams across the United States, the WPFL had its first game in 1999 with just two original teams: the Lake Michigan Minx and the Minnesota Vixens. Fifteen teams nationwide competed for the championship in 2006.

  4. Women's American football in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Professional Football League operated again between 1999 and 2007. A second league, the Independent Women's Football League was founded in 2000. In 2009 were founded the Women's Football Alliance and The X League. In 2010, Katie Hnida became the kicker for the Fort Wayne FireHawks in the Continental Indoor Football League.

  5. Prominent women's sports leagues in the United States and ...

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    After eight years of research and planning, combined efforts resulted in the launch of the first women's professional softball league in United States history in May 1997, the "Women's Pro Fastpitch (WPF) league. In 1986 and 1987 the United States women's national softball team won gold medals in the Pan American Games. Jane Cowles formulated a ...

  6. United States Women's Football League - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Women's gridiron football - Wikipedia

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    Patricia Palinkas is on record as being the first female professional football player, having played for the Orlando Panthers of the Atlantic Coast Football League in 1970. [14] Palinkas was a placekick holder for her placekicker husband.

  8. Professionalism in women's association football - Wikipedia

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    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. [62 ...

  9. Women's National Football Conference - Wikipedia

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    The Women's National Football Conference (WNFC) is a semi-pro full-contact Women's American football league in the United States. With teams across the United States, the WNFC had its first game in 2019 with fourteen regular teams and one exhibition team.