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Republic of Ireland Senior Women's Team manager Sue Ronan has announced a 20 strong squad for an international women's friendly against Austria at Tallaght Stadium on Tuesday June 18th 2013 (Kick-Off 19:30). The match is part of Ireland's  build up to the FIFA Women's World Cup…

Scottish Champions Glasgow City take on England’s best side Arsenal, this Sunday at Petershill, 2pm, in a unique Battle of Britain challenge match, sponsored by ng homes.

 

The game presents are rare chance to see two of Britain’s finest teams up against each other and a great opportunity for Scottish fans to see an Arsenal side who are littered with some of the world’s most famous and talented…

Ciara Grant, the Republic of Ireland’s most capped women’s player, has announced her retirement from international football.

Grant, who will be 35 in May, was captain of the senior team for the past seven years.

She won a record-breaking 105 caps and scored 11 goals during a 17 year period having made her debut as teenager in a 3-1 win over the Faroe Islands.

Her last appearance in an Ireland jersey was the 2-0 win away to Israel in a Euro…

Alex Morgan scored after just 44 seconds from the kick-off and midfielder Megan Rapinoe added a second goal seven minutes before halftime as the USA beat the Republic of Ireland 2 - 0 in the 7 match of the 2012 fan tribute tour.

USA 2 - 0…

The next stop of the 'Fan Tribute Tour' is the University of Phoenix Stadium; Glendale, Ariz, where the rematch between USWNT and Republic of Ireland will take place on Saturday 1st December 2012 at 7:30pm MT. 

These two teams played against each other on Wednesday 28th November 2012. USA…

The AFC annual awards 2012 took place today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to salute and honour excellence in sport in Asian football.

Recap on all of this…

FIFA have revealed the final nominees for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year award 2012 and the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football 2012 in a press conference today attended by FIFA President Joseph Blatter.

The three nominees for FIFA Women's Player of the Year are Abby Wambach (USA), Alex Morgan (USA) and Marta (Brazil)

They were selected from the …

US Soccer have announced the nominations for the Female Athlete of the Year 2012.

The five finalists are Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe and Hope Solo.

Voting is underway, you can register your vote at the official Facebook page of US Soccer. 

Good luck to all the nominees, who do you think deserves to win this award?…

USA play hosts to Republic of Ireland in the first of two international friendly matches on Wednesday as part of their 'Fan Tribute Tour', celebrating their Olympic gold medal win.

The game will take place at the JELD-WEN Field, Portland on Wednesday November 28th at 7pm (local time).

Sue Ronan has…

The final five games of the Fan Tribute Tour, presented by Panasonic are set as the U.S. Women's National Team will finish up an historic year with the second half of its tour to celebrate the 2012 Olympic gold medal.

The final five matches will take the USA through all…

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea – The national women’s soccer team of Equatorial Guinea, dubbed the Equatorial Guinea Girls by their fans in America, won the Cup of African Nations (CAN) 2012 yesterday.

The girls displayed a convincing win over South Africa with a score of 4-0.…

Republic of Ireland ladies manager Sue Ronan has named her squad that will travel to America at the end of the month for two friendly matches with the USA.

The 18 woman squad will link up in Dublin on November 25, and will travel…

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea – The national soccer team of Equatorial Guinea advanced into the semi-final match of the 8th edition of the African Cup of Nations on Saturday. The Equatorial Guinea Girls, dubbed by their fans in America won a convincing match against Senegal with a 5 to nil score.

Equatorial Guinea Girls reserved some of the injured players, but maintained the block, because if there is something the coach did not want was excessive confidence that…

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea – The national soccer team for Equatorial Guinea showed determination and grace during a convincing 6-0 win over the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday. The Equatorial Guinea Girls, dubbed by their fans in America play Senegal next in the Women's Cup of African Nations (CAN 2012). Captain Ayonman scored three goals and showed her best game against the Congolese team.

After the match, at a press conference, the coach of the Equatorial…

USWNT forward Alex Morgan was awarded the Sportswoman of the Year Award (Team Sport) last night at the 33rd Salute to Women in Sports Gala in New York.

The prestigious award was given to Alex Morgan for her exceptional performances in a team sport…

Should Girls Play Football ?

Why Not? Asks Miss Alice Kell, the Popular Captain of the Famous Preston Ladies' Team

There are few cleverer Soccer players than Miss Alice Kell, the captain of Dick Kerr's famous team of girl footballers. She is equally at home either at centre-forward,…

From 21st to 26nd August 2012, the city of Chernigov will host the international tournament "Cup of FFU" for women's junior national teams (U-17). It will bring together teams from: Ukraine, Belarus, Iran and Russia.

The tournament schedule:

August 21st

17.30 Official opening of the tournament

18.00 Ukraine - Ukraine…

Reach a wider audience of football, both the stands and the field continues to work towards reducing gender disparities Football Federation of Turkey is of special importance for the Women's Football. Director of Football Development League education and outreach efforts conducted by the Women's football as a result of important developments took place as soon as possible. Although not considered a short woman with a history…

Prince William, Prince Harry and the Duchess of Cambridge attended the launch of a project in South-East London that aims to train the next generation of sports coaches.

a very game Duchess of Cambridge attempts to dribble a football wearing her Pied-a-Terre wedged espadrilles  1

Duchess of Cambridge controls ball next to Prince William

Prince William kicks a…