Strange, I didn't think the 1st womens world cup took place until 1991?

they are good at it though; it sort of explains the license fee what with paying for all the think tanks & spin doctrines etc

1971..I had never heard of women's football????????????

me neither but apparently they all got sacked when returning home from their exploits

I did not think of football looking at women then I must admit

Played in front of 90,000 at the Aztec?

Anyone verify this?

We thought better use could be made of women....some of us still do

i've seen pics of crowd, SS but not the game

A whole Wikipedia on it, was a none fifa sanctioned event

Who knows if its all true or not, they can circulate anything on the net at any moment and people think its all true

But it could be so who knows

110,000 apparently attended the final

We just heard nothing of it until now

The whole story reads exactly like that a story

The mascot was a young girl in a kit, the goal posts were painted pink etc

Even now they can't fill stadiums but somehow managed to smash records back in the 70s?

Something stinks

The BBC are all for women now...particularly the les sort


If they had their way they would ban men

I don’t know anything about the event mentioned in 1971, but for those questioning the attendance figures... is it possible that it was staged as an undercard to some other prominent match?

That could be the answer Pokermonster

The World Cup(men) was held in Mexico in 1970.

The secret history of women's football
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/33064421/the-secret-history-of-womens-football

Women's matches pulled in enormous crowds
There was a huge growth in women's football during the war when women were called upon to do factory jobs left by the men who had gone to fight.

On Christmas Day in 1917, 10,000 spectators watched two women's teams playing at Preston.

And when Dick Kerr's Ladies played St Helen's Ladies on Boxing Day 1920 they pulled in a crowd of 53,000 at Everton's Goodison Park ground, with thousands more fans locked outside. Everton men's highest attendance this season (2014/15) was 39,000.


1970 unofficial World Cup
Women soccer 1970 (15.07) Denmark - Italy - 2-0 World Cup Final (unofficial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2L2CzrrnIE


1971 (05.09) Mexico - Denmark - 0-3 World Cup Final women (unofficial)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgy6FOz3-bY

Charlie is correct about the massive crowds, the ladies game was destroyed by the F.A. who banned any F.A. registered team from allowing a ladies game to be played in their stadium.