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Brisbane team wore blue. The game was won by North Brisbane with a score of two to zero. Early football outfits for women were not that different from the outfits worn today: long socks, long-sleeved football jerseys, baggy shorts, and purpose worn football shoes. Originally, football was not played by girls at schools in Queensland. Instead, football was played by factory workers in Queensland.
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for medical reasons, the girls should probably not be allowed to participate in tennis, netball, lacrosse, golf, hockey, and cricket. Football was completely medically inappropriate for girls to play. It was medically appropriate for all girls to be able to participate in, so long as they were not done in an overly competitive manner, swimming, rowing, cycling and horseback riding.
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was held in 1991. Australia did not qualify, having been beaten by New
Zealand because of goal difference. In 1995, Australia did qualify and finished last in the tournament. In 1999, Australia finished eleventh out of sixteen. In 2003, Australia finished last in their group. The Matildas qualified
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In the W-League's first year in competition, it managed to attract a number of international players including ones from Canada, New
Zealand, Singapore and Sweden. Games had an average attendance of around 500 fans and games were televised nationally on free-to-air. The first season was won by the
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in 1921. Around that period, there were at least three active teams, with over 60 combined total players. In
September 1921, a game was played at the Brisbane Cricket Ground between a team from North Brisbane and a team from South Brisbane. The match had over 10,000 people in attendance. The North
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In 1996, soccer made its debut as a women's sport at the
Olympics. However, the IOC states otherwise, explicitly recognising the United States as the winner of the first gold medals in the women's sport in 1996. Four years later, Australia hosted the Olympics and Cheryl Salisbury scored the team's
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first
Olympic goal in their second match against Sweden. Australia finished seventh in that first Olympic appearance. The team also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics after qualifying by winning the Oceania qualifying tournament. Their next Olympic appearance did not come until the
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air travel and the same training conditions. This made
Australia the first country in which the men's and women's national teams have an equal share of the total revenue generated by both teams, with the two teams sharing 26% of the combined national income, apart from prize money.
892:"INVEST IN WOMEN'S SPORT. The Tillies effect 😤 In a record-breaking week one of the Finals Series, the A-League became the most attended season, of any women's sport, in Australia ever. Surpassing the AFLW 2023 cumulative attendance total for the regular season + finals series"
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heading up their women's football division, aims to achieve gender parity by 2027, but there are obstacles and challenges to women entering the sport at grassroots level. There is a lack of women's change facilities and toilets at many venues. Most clubs in the men's
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Girls can get anything they want out of soccer. It's a game that you can have individual as well as team achievements and it's a great environment. How many people can travel around the world and know people in so many countries?
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season set the record for the most attended season of any women's sport in
Australian history, with the season recording a total attendance of 284,551 on 15 April 2024, and finishing with a final total attendance of 312,199.
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on the perception of women's sport in
Australia. A video featuring 23 Matildas was released just before the tournament began, aiming to spread the message that women in other countries deserve parity in pay and conditions.
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have similar for girls. Women playing in the A-League earn a minimum wage and have to work at other jobs, often studying as well, while the top player in the men's A-League earns round
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Queensland Roar. Sydney FC won the second season. In the league's third season, international players competed from countries including New Zealand, Taiwan, Denmark and Canada.
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has been on the highest step of the podium - in 1996, in 2004 in Athens and in 2008 in Beijing. But this team was beaten by the
676:"'A bunch of ratbag, lesbian feminists': The coming-out story of the Adelaide Armpits, Australia's first LGBTQIA+ football club"
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898:. The Female Athlete Project
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1070:Olympic.org
952:, p. 4
924:. A-Leagues
846:. A-Leagues
628:, p. 7
613:, p. 6
476:Sarah Walsh
315:Hayley Raso
2796:Categories
2297:Queensland
2291:League One
2268:Levels 3–8
2245:Queensland
2061:Queensland
2055:Division 1
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2027:League One
1998:Levels 3–9
1950:Queensland
1830:Paralympic
1677:Ice hockey
1662:Basketball
1586:Kickboxing
1576:Gymnastics
1551:Cue sports
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1521:Athletics
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680:ABC News
507:See also
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265:W-League
255:playing
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164:Brisbane
104:Olympics
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2675:Vanuatu
2556:Records
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158:History
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