The national federation was created in 1956 and became a FIFA affiliate in 1956. However women's football is not included in the country's FIFA coordinated Goals! project. By 2011, inside the Saudi Arabia Football Federation, there has been an effort to create women's football programs at universities. Input had been sought on how to do this from other national federations including ones from the United States, Germany, Brazil and the United Kingdom. (Full article...)

Christiane in action at the 2007 Pan American Games

• ... that the female footballer Bilgin Defterli decided to go to Germany because she saw no chance to play football in Turkey due to the dissolution of women's football leagues in 2003? (19 December 2013)
• ... that Cambodia women's national football team faces several challenges including women's football not being popular in Cambodia and, as of 2006, no teams for women to play on? (1 July 2012)
• ... that Netherlands Antilles women's national football team faces development challenges because football is only the sixth most popular sport in the country? (26 May 2012)
• ... that Sydney Leroux (pictured) represented Canada before deciding to play for the United States women's national soccer team? (February 16, 2014)
• ... that despite São Tomé and Príncipe gaining independence in 1975, the women's national football team did not play their first FIFA recognised match until 2002? (11 June 2012)
• ... that, in 1969, British sports journalist Julie Welch became the first female in Fleet Street to report on a football match? (16 June 2011)

• ... that Rashida Beal was named 2016 Big Ten Defender of the Year after the Minnesota Golden Gophers won that year's conference tournament?
• ... that English women's footballer Shameeka Fishley scored a hat-trick in her newly-established Turkish team's first match?
• ... that soccer player Danielle Marcano scored four goals in back-to-back games that helped to send the University of Tennessee to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals for the first time in history?
• ... that the Nike Phantom Luna football boot considers women's anatomy and the playing style of women's football in its design?
• ... that the 2012 Olympic women's soccer semifinal between the Canadian and the American national teams was called "the greatest knockout match in major-tournament football" since 1982?
• ... that in 2012, French women's football club Arras FCF were promoted to the country's top division and reached the semi-finals of the French Cup?

The British Ladies' Football Club was a women's association football team formed in Great Britain in 1895. The team, one of the first women's football clubs, had as its patron Lady Florence Dixie, an aristocrat from Dumfries, and its first captain was Nettie Honeyball (real name likely Mary Hutson).

The club's first public match took place at Crouch End, London on 23 March 1895, between teams representing 'The North' and 'The South'. The North won 7–1 in front of an estimated 11,000 spectators. The club and its associated teams under different names played matches regularly until April 1897. It was briefly revived in 1902–03. (Full article...)