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1790's |
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Annual match in Mid-Lothian ?
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1870's |
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Women were an uncommon site as spectators at football matches,
where they were often allowed in for free.
Indeed in Sheffield one letter
writer complained that he had to PAY for his wife to see a local association
match.
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1892 |
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First match within Scotland Football Association guidelines at Shawfield's Ground.
The
Scottish Sport considered it "..the most degrading spectacle we have ever witnessed in
connection with football."
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March 23rd 1895 |
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The first recorded women's football match in England was played. It was between a northern
and a southern side, the north winning 7-1.
Match played in Bradford.
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1902 |
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The FA banned its teams from playing against ladies teams.
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1917-19 |
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During the First World War women's teams began to spring up, using the games to raise
money for charity.
With the absence of men in this era women assumed many of what
had traditionally been men's roles and a number of teams were based around war
factories.
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April 30th 1920 |
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The first international game was held between two women's teams.
Dick Kerrs Ladies
beat a France representative side 2-0 in front of 25,000.
This was one of a series of
games held for charity.
Dick Kerrs was a munitions factory in Preston.
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1920 |
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Dick Kerrs Ladies represented England against a Scottish XI - which finished 22-0 to
England.
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Dec. 26th 1920 |
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The biggest crowd ever recorded for a women's game, 53,000 people, watched a Cup
Final at Goodison.
Dick Kerrs Ladies (from Preston) beat their closest rivals, St Helen's
Ladies, 4-0.
After the war crowds for women's games began to increase to levels greater
than the lower ranking men's games.
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1921 |
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In the return international with Scotland played at Celtic Park, England ( represented by
Dick Kerrs Ladies) only manage to score 9 times in front of a crowd of 6000.
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1921 |
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Following the above match, Dick Kerrs Ladies made a tour of Scotland, playing at
Edinburgh, Kilmarnock, Aberdeen, Dundee and Dumfries before a total of 70,000
spectators.
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Dec. 5th 1921 |
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The FA banned women from playing on Football League ground.
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1937 |
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Dick Kerrs Ladies met Edinburgh Ladies for what was billed as "The Championship of
Great Britain and The World".
Dick Kerrs Ladies won 5-1, however the result was
reversed one year later.
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