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Lots of women took up football during WW1 as a way to keep fit, but in 1921 a few years after the war had ended the FA decided that women's football was to be banned. The reason given by the FA was that "…the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged."
www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/59532731Until as recently as 1971, women in England were banned from playing football at the grounds of Football Association clubs. This was due to a ruling passed by the FA on 5 December 1921. The decisions came despite – or perhaps as a result of – women's football being extremely popular at the time.www.vice.com/en/article/jpwee3/throwback-thursda… - People also ask
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Women may have been playing football for as long as the game has existed. Evidence shows that a similar game (cuju, also known as tsu chu) was played by women during the Han dynasty (25–220 CE), as female figures are depicted in frescoes of the period playing tsu chu. Annual matches being played in Midlothian, Scotland are reported as early as the 1790s. In 1863, football gov…
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