stating “the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged.” The ban meant the women’s game was side-lined to being played in public parks for nearly 50 years.

A number of high-profile injuries have occurred in women's football in recent years. BBC Sport looks at whether the type of ...

A council said women and girls would get priority access to a new £1m all-weather football pitch. Construction is getting under way at the site in Kettering, where the existing pitch was condemned as ...

Playing conditions at the stadium ... It made free-flowing football near impossible for both Arsenal and Real Madrid, with both sets of players covered in mud by full-time. Former England ...