Women's football in Switzerland
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| Women's football in Switzerland | |
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| Governing body | Swiss Football Association |
| National team(s) | Women's national team |
National competitions | |
Club competitions | |
International competitions | |
Champions League FIFA Women's World Cup (National Team) European Championship (National Team) Olympics (National Team) | |
Women's football in Switzerland was founded in with the Swiss Women's Super League on April 24, 1970.[1][2] Women in Switzerland experienced prejudice for playing football.
Switzerland is expected host the UEFA Women's Euro 2025.[3]
History
The first recorded instance of womens football in Switzerland was in 1923. The newspaper Le Sport Suisse reported on the organisational association of football-loving women in Geneva under the name Les Sportive on the initiative of Florida Pianzola.
In the 1960s, due to women being banned from planning football but participated in amateur football tournaments. In 1965, Monika and Silvia Stahel founded the football club FC Goitschel in Murgenthal.[4] They wrote to the Swiss Football Association asking them to be able to play football officially.[5] The Swiss FA responded with declined the sisters request, offered the ladies opportunity to become referees.[6]
Madeleine Boll became a media sensation in 1965 when she became the was the first licensed female footballer in Switzerland because the Swiss Football Association didn't realise Boll was female. She had first taken part in FC Sion's youth training and then applied for the license. With the license, she was able to take part in the pre-match of the first European Cup match between FC Sion and Galatasaray.[10] Boll's presence attracted media interest from all over the world, and Boll had her license was rescinded. Due to the media attention, Madeleine Boll was signed by Serie A team Gommagomma , and played from 1970 to 1974, then for Real Juventus. Boll's popularity sparked massive increase in participation of women's football in Switzerland.[11]
Club football
Swiss Women's Super League is the highest tier of women's football in Switzerland.[12][13]
On 21 February 1968, the first women's football club was founded in Zurich, the Damenfussballclub Zürich (DFC Zurich) which was founded by Trudy Moser and Ursula Moser.[14][15][16]
National team
Since the 21st Century Switzerland has seen an upsurge of success with the national team qualifying for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.[17][18]
References
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- ^ "Frauenfussball in der Schweiz: Der lange Kampf um Anerkennung". SRF (in German). Retrieved 6 July 2023.
- ^ "Switzerland to host Women's Euro 2025". SWI swissinfo.ch. 4 April 2023.
- ^ https://zeitlupe.ch/panorama/gesellschaft/anno-dazumal/frauenfussball-in-der-schweiz-wie-alles-begann/
- ^ "La longue marche du football féminin suisse - Le Temps". 8 June 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2024 – via www.letemps.ch.
- ^ "Un si long dribble - Le Temps". 8 June 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2024 – via www.letemps.ch.
- ^ Pepe, Saro (13 September 2018). "Foot féminin – seulement depuis 50 ans". Musée national - Blog sur l'histoire suisse. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
- ^ Pepe, Saro (25 July 2023). "En 1968, le football s'ouvrait enfin aux femmes". Retrieved 1 March 2024.
- ^ "Une Suisse, deux époques : Femmes de foot". rts.ch. 1 May 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
- ^ "La signora del calcio svizzero". rsi. 2 August 2022.
- ^ "FIFA 1904" (PDF). FIFA. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
- ^ "Women's football in Switzerland | Inside UEFA". UEFA.com. 9 July 2022.
- ^ "Un regard ouvert sur ce football technique". www.lagruyere.ch.
- ^ https://www.blick.ch/sport/fussball/frauenfussball-pionierin-trudy-streit-wir-mussten-die-alten-trikots-der-b-junioren-tragen-id16184955.html
- ^ https://www.blick.ch/sport/fussball/frauen-fussball/frauen-wm/auch-ohne-wm-teilnahme-im-frauenfussball-sind-wir-weltspitze-id15375133.html
- ^ "Was die ersten Fussballerinnen der Schweiz ertragen mussten". 20 February 2018.
- ^ "Switzerland relishing World Cup return". FIFA.com. 18 April 2023.
- ^ "Voss-Tecklenburg on Switzerland's 'moment'". UEFA.com. 7 June 2015.
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