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Resources

Websites / News

Africa

JWsports1, primarily but not limited to South Africa; WAFCON, African teams in international play, African players abroad; website is now defunct, Facebook is still active

Asia

Japan: WE League
- Japan Times (in English) (limited, infrequent coverage)
- WE League (in English) (first-party/non-WP:IS press releases, including matchweek reviews and box scores)

Australia: A-League Women

The Women's Game (primarily Australia, but some NWSL, Swedish Damallsvenskan)
Keep Up (first-party news source, not WP:IS)
The Guardian
Australia Football (aggregator of club sites and newspapers/news sites)

Europe

England: FA WSL
France: Division 1 Féminine, Coupe de France féminine
- Coeursdefoot (in French)
- footoféminin (in French)
Germany: Frauen-Bundesliga
- Soccerdonna (also covers other European competitions)
Scotland Women's Premier League
Sweden: Damallsvenskan
- Damfotboll (primarily Damallsvenskan, Elitettan, Sweden WNT)
- Aftonbladet/Sportbladet (primarily Damallsvenskan)
Women's EURO
- The Athletic

North America

United States: NWSL, WPSL, WPS (previous), WUSA (previous)
- The Equalizer (primarily NWSL; also Liga MX Fem, USWNT, NCAA, European leagues; archives include content on WUSA, WPS, WPSL-E, including inconsistent box scores)
- CBS Sports NWSL coverage
- On Her Turf (also NCAA, FIFA competitions)^[a]
- All for XI (SBNation; also NCAA, FIFA, European competitions)^[b]
- ESPN, ESPNW, major regional papers, Howler Magazine, Keeper Notes, Bleacher Report
- NWSL News (primarily NWSL)
- ~~Pitchside Report~~ ^{[dead link]}
- The Striker
- The Athletic
- Just Women's Sports Be careful.^[c]

Stats

General

women.soccerway.com (player/team/league/manager/referee/some NT stats; see also {{soccerway}}. Long-running and wide-reaching, but not comprehensive. Be careful.^[d]
FBref (player/team/league/manager/NT with advanced metrics for recent top-division club seasons in much of Europe (including UWCL) and U.S., plus international competitions. Third-party frontend to DSG and Stats Perform/Opta data. Also has lesser stats for several European leagues and U.S. NWSL 2013–2015. Club data goes back to 2013 only. Many data tables support CSV/XLS export. See also {{FBref}}. Be careful.^[e]
Playmaker Stats (player/team/league/manager/some NT stats, and a rare non-Soccerway source for referee stats in the women's game; global range but Europe-focused, see also {{Sports links}}. Be careful.^[f]
ESPN; ie. WSL, NWSL, plus NCAAW, CONCACAF W, UWCL, FA Cup, Copa de la Reina, ESP, NED, AUS. As close to a raw feed of Stats Perform/Opta data as is freely available. League stats page tabs provide league season infobox top scorer, win/unbeaten/losing/winless streaks, and attendance numbers at a glance. Match reports often include referee details or attendance numbers not shown on league reports.
Global Sports Archive (GSA). First-party frontend to Data Sports Group stats across sports. Includes many lower-division and lower-profile leagues, particularly FRA and GER second divisions. Navigation to women's leagues/players is difficult; use search.

Europe

France
- footoféminin stats (in French)
Germany: Frauen-Bundesliga
- DFB official website; standings, match reports, goalscorers only (in German)

North America

Mexico
- Liga MX Femenil official stats (in Spanish)
- Stats Perform (2018–19 Apertura only; fixtures, scores, managers, and player name/pos/height/birthdate/birthplace data only)
United States
- Keeper Notes NWSL Almanac, published annually. League, team, player records, kit evolutions, some player career data. Self-published source by a subject-matter expert; supporting sources for 2013–2015 information might no longer be available.
- RSSSF:
  - Be careful.^[g]
  - WPSL 1998–2010
  - USL W-League (1995–2010); nothing for 2011–2015
- SoccerStats.us, WUSA, WPS, WPSL-E, NWSL 2013–2014. Be careful.^[h]
- Stats Crew (WUSA, WPS, NWSL, player/team/season stats and standings; no match reports or separation of playoff/regular-season stats)

Notes

^ NBC redesigned its website in June 2023, which broke all existing links without working redirects. For example, the URL https://onherturf.nbcsports.com/2021/11/23/2021-nwsl-timeline-five-male-coaches-ousted-allegations-of-abuse/ is now https://www.nbcsports.com/on-her-turf/news/nwsl-teams-pause-games-this-is-not-business-as-usual .
^ Some SBNation club-/market-specific sites, all of which are now shuttered, are still up and retain stories from the WPS era to early 2023. A few, such as Angels on Parade, have taken over their old SBNation sites' domains to continue operating, but in the process have broken all existing links to the former content, which might now be lost if not archived.
^ JWS's original reporting is often WP:IS but the pub has a tendency, especially on social media, to reuse others' content without proper attribution or re-run press releases.
^ Soccerway sometimes unexpectedly combines stats for separate competitions, such as regular season/playoff or league/cup, and its career stats for players might silently omit teams in leagues it doesn't cover. Match report data might be inconsistent with surviving or archived contemporary reports, and Soccerway does not cite all match data sources.
^ Sports Reference hides some data, such as playoff statistics for NWSL player seasons, unless you view a player's match reports. Match report data may be incomplete or inaccurate, particularly player birthdate/place details and managers for specific matches in seasons where a manager is fired or suspended mid-season, and kickoff dates/times for matches that were postponed. Its career stats for players may silently omit stats for teams in leagues it doesn't cover, and its data for the NWSL from 2013–2015 is sometimes inaccurate, incomplete, or duplicated in other player records due to a lack of consistency or data in upstream sources. (Opta/Stats Perform has no NWSL data prior to 2016.)
^ Playmaker accepts user contributions and might not be a reliable source for all types of data. Suggest confirming data with at least one other independent source.
^ RSSSF sometimes cites Wikipedia as a sole source for league or season stats. Review sources listed on each page.
^ SoccerStats.us sometimes cites Wikipedia as its sole source. Review sources as indicated by the ☢ icons at the bottom of match pages.

Books

Akers, Michelle (2000), The Game and the Glory, Zondervan Publishing Company, ISBN 0310235294
Caudwell, Jayne (2011), Women's Football in the UK: Continuing with Gender Analyses, Routledge, ISBN 041556087X
Chastain, Brandi (2005), It's Not About the Bra: Play Hard, Play Fair, and Put the Fun Back Into Competitive Sports, Harper Perennial, ISBN 006076600X
Carlson Berne, Emma (2016), What a Kick: How a Clutch World Cup Win Propelled Women's Soccer, Capstone, ISBN 0756554144
Christopher, Matt (2009), In the Goal With ... Briana Scurry, Little, ISBN 0316093904
Crawford, Fiona, and McGowan, Lee (2020), Never Say Die: The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Football, NewSouth, ISBN 978-1742236667
Culvin, Alex, and Bowes, Ali (2023), Women's Football in a Global, Professional Era, Emerald Publishing, ISBN 978-1800710535
Donaldson, Chelsea (2014), Christine Sinclair, Pebble Plus, ISBN 1491419784
Dure, Beau (2013), Enduring Spirit: Restoring Professional Women's Soccer to Washington, Beau Dure, ASIN B00FW93SWQ
Elsey, Brenda (2019), Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America, University of Texas Press, ISBN 978-1477310427
Fair, Lorrie (2003), Fair Game, McGraw Hill Professional, ISBN 0071426892
Foer, Franklin (2010), How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, Harper Perennial, ISBN 061978051
Foudy, Julie (2017), Choose to Matter: Being Courageously and Fabulously YOU, Disney/ESPN, ISBN 1368009948
Grainey, Timothy F. (2012), Beyond Bend It Like Beckham: The Global Phenomenon of Women's Soccer, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 978-0-8032-3470-3
Gregg, Lauren (1999), The Champion Within, J T C Sports Inc, ISBN 1887791078
Hamm, Mia (2013), Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life, Harper Collins, ISBN 0062275771
Hong, Fan and Mangan, J.A. (2004), Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation: Kicking Off a New Era Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0714684082
Jacobs, Barbara (2004), The Dick Kerr's Ladies, Constable and Robinson, ISBN 1-84119-828-5
Kassouf, Jeff (2011), Girls Play to Win Soccer, Norwood House Press, ISBN 1599534649
Knijnik, Jorge, and Costa, Ana (ed., 2022), Women’s Football in Latin America: Social Challenges and Historical Perspectives, vol. 1, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-3031079757
Lisi, Climente A., (2010), The U.S. Women's Soccer Team: An American Success Story, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 0810874156
Lloyd, Carli (2016), When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 054481455X
Longman, Jere (2001), The Girls of Summer: The U.S. Women's Soccer Team and How It Changed the World, Harper Perennial, ISBN 0060934689
Menayo, David (2013), Vero Boquete, La Princesa del Deporte, Cydonia Editorial, ISBN 8493806498
Miller, Marla (1999), All American Girls: The USA National Soccer Team, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, ISBN 0671035991
Murray, Caitlin (2019), The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer, Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 978-1419743016
Newsham, Gail J. (1994), In a League of their Own! The Dick, Kerr Ladies 1917–1965, Pride of Place UK Limited, ISBN 1-85727-029-0
Oxenham, Gwendolyn (2018), Under the Lights and In the Dark: Untold Stories of Women’s Soccer, Icon Books, ISBN 978-1785783197
Powell, Hope (2016), Hope: My Life in Football, Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 1472925580
Scraton, S., Magee, J., Caudwell, J. (2008), Women, Football and Europe: Histories, Equity and Experience (Ifi) (Vol 1), Meyer & Meyer Fachverlag und Buchhandel GmbH, ISBN 1841262250
Smith, Kelly (2012), Footballer: My Story, Corgi, ISBN 055216643X
Solo, Hope (2012), Solo: A Memoir of Hope, Harper, ISBN 0062136747
Stewart, Barbara (2003), Women's Soccer: The Passionate Game, Greystone Books, ISBN 1553650050
Tate, Tim (2013), Girls with Balls - The Secret History of Women's Football. John Blake, ISBN 978-1-7821-9429-3
Trecker, Jim (1999), Women's Soccer: The Game and the FIFA World Cup, Universe, ISBN 0789302705
Wambach, Abby (2016), Forward: A Memoir, HarperCollins, ISBN 0062467018
Williams, Jean (2003), A Game for Rough Girls?: A History of Women's Football in Britain, Routledge, ISBN 0415263387
Williams, Jean (2007), A Beautiful Game: International Perspectives on Women's Football, Berg, ISBN 1-84520-674-6
Williams, Jean (2013), Globalising Women's Football, Peter Lang AG, ISBN 3034313152
Williams, Jean (2022), The History of Women's Football, Pen & Sword History, ISBN 978-1526785312
Williamson, David J. (1991), Belles of the Ball: Early History of Women's Football, R&D Associates, ISBN 978-0951751206
Wrack, Suzanne (2022), A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer, Triumph Books, ISBN 978-1629379333

Films and videos

Abby Head On (ESPN Films)
Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team (HBO Films)
Dick Kerr's Ladies Football Aka Good Luck - Girls! (1922) (British Pathé)
Football Under Cover (2008) (Flying Moon)
Keeping Score (2016) (Full Screen)
Offside (2011) (Sony Classics)
HERoics - 6 short films about women's soccer (ESPN Films)
The incredible growth of women's soccer (FIFATV)
Nine for IX: The 99ers (ESPN Films)
Ninetieth Minute, The (Jun Stinson)
Raising Their Game: An introduction (Part I) (FIFATV)
Raising Their Game: Passing the Test (Part II) (FIFATV)
Veil of Dreams (2011) (Oak3 Films)
Women Footballers (1920) (British Pathé)

Photos w/ appropriate license for Wikipedia

NWSL (USA)

Copa Catalunya (Spain)

(with thanks to User:Coentor)

International-level Matches

Sweden WNT vs Brazil
US WNT vs Ireland
Sweden WNT vs Germany WNT Euro 2013 semi-final
Poland WNT vs Warta Poznan (men) (and more Poland WNT here if anyone can put names to faces...)

[1] NBC redesigned its website in June 2023, which broke all existing links without working redirects. For example, the URL https://onherturf.nbcsports.com/2021/11/23/2021-nwsl-timeline-five-male-coaches-ousted-allegations-of-abuse/ is now https://www.nbcsports.com/on-her-turf/news/nwsl-teams-pause-games-this-is-not-business-as-usual .

[2] Some SBNation club-/market-specific sites, all of which are now shuttered, are still up and retain stories from the WPS era to early 2023. A few, such as Angels on Parade, have taken over their old SBNation sites' domains to continue operating, but in the process have broken all existing links to the former content, which might now be lost if not archived.

[3] JWS's original reporting is often WP:IS but the pub has a tendency, especially on social media, to reuse others' content without proper attribution or re-run press releases.

[4] Soccerway sometimes unexpectedly combines stats for separate competitions, such as regular season/playoff or league/cup, and its career stats for players might silently omit teams in leagues it doesn't cover. Match report data might be inconsistent with surviving or archived contemporary reports, and Soccerway does not cite all match data sources.

[5] Sports Reference hides some data, such as playoff statistics for NWSL player seasons, unless you view a player's match reports. Match report data may be incomplete or inaccurate, particularly player birthdate/place details and managers for specific matches in seasons where a manager is fired or suspended mid-season, and kickoff dates/times for matches that were postponed. Its career stats for players may silently omit stats for teams in leagues it doesn't cover, and its data for the NWSL from 2013–2015 is sometimes inaccurate, incomplete, or duplicated in other player records due to a lack of consistency or data in upstream sources. (Opta/Stats Perform has no NWSL data prior to 2016.)

[6] Playmaker accepts user contributions and might not be a reliable source for all types of data. Suggest confirming data with at least one other independent source.

[7] RSSSF sometimes cites Wikipedia as a sole source for league or season stats. Review sources listed on each page.

[8] SoccerStats.us sometimes cites Wikipedia as its sole source. Review sources as indicated by the ☢ icons at the bottom of match pages.

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