Talk:England women's national football team

A fact from England women's national football team appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 April 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the England women's national team played its first official association football match in 1972, 100 years after the men's team's first match?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/England women's national football team.

Wikipedia

England Mid‑importance

	England portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject England, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of England on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EnglandWikipedia:WikiProject EnglandTemplate:WikiProject EnglandEngland-related articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Football: England / Women's football Mid‑importance

	Association football portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Football, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Association football on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.FootballWikipedia:WikiProject FootballTemplate:WikiProject Footballfootball articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	English football portal This article is supported by the English football task force (assessed as Mid-importance).
	Women's association football portal This article is supported by the women's football task force (assessed as Mid-importance).

Women's History Low‑importance

	History portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women's history and related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women's HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject Women's HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Women's HistoryWomen's History articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Women's sport: WOSO Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's sport (and women in sports), a WikiProject which aims to improve coverage of women in sports on Wikipedia. For more information, visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.Women's sportWikipedia:WikiProject Women's sportTemplate:WikiProject Women's sportWomen's sport articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Women's association football portal This article is supported by the Women's football / soccer task force.

Untitled

Hope this is a helpful start (based on fr:Équipe_d'Angleterre_de_football_féminin. I'll try to improve it a bit myself... Rnt20 21:47, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oh god -- the English language football infoboxes look a nightmare. I think I'll quit for tonight! Rnt20 21:51, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've added the current squad as I found it on the offical website. Th e Halo (talk) 14:05, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dates?

The page states the team's finishing positions in international tournaments held in 1969, 1970 and 1971, but the infobox gives the date of the team's first international as 1972.....? - ChrisTheDude 12:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think the 1972 date refers to the first official international match. Exactly what counts as official, I don't know. --StuartBrady (Talk) 15:09, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Crest picture

The crest pictured in the infobox confuses me, does the team actually wear that crest (with the single star above)? Or is that just a copy from the men's team? For those who don't know what I'm talking about, national teams usually wear a star for each World Cup championship, and the England women's team have never won. --Xyzzyva 17:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Olympics

Do they compete?andycjp (talk) 05:46, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I believe in women's football it's a much more prestigious event, perhaps even up there with the World Cup. I'll try and find the past results... Yohan euan o4 (talk) 18:53, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, they can't compete because England doesn't have a NOC (Britain does), and Scotland/Wales/NI are unwilling to compromise their status as a national team. Yohan euan o4 (talk) 19:02, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not the case for the men's team where an English side will take part representing Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the 2012 games, so I'm assuming that the same will be possible for the women's team. Otherwise, it's true, they don't normally compete 8lgm (talk) 08:33, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Updates

I love the improvements to this article @User:Fuebaey - just some small suggestions: The names of the first goalscorers aren't in the source given and the November 2014 match was the first at new Wembley but not Wembley per se (Carolina Morace once scored four goals there against England). Kerry Davis and Hope Powell should be in the top goalscorer's list - and maybe Linda Curl, for all anyone knows - we're obviously jarring up against WP:OR a bit here! Thanks again for your great work. 94.0.26.47 (talk) 21:31, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate the feedback. It's my first major article overhaul - any suggestions are welcome - though still a work in progress, so please bear with me. Looking to research, then write (pushing myself to do this instead of lurking) and then attribute, which may explain why not everything is sourced at the moment. My next aim is to expand the early years under Powell and then start a section about team image (i.e. colours/stadium/managers) like other national teams.

The BBC reference mentions that Sylvia Gore scored the first England goal in that match but there's some debate about who scored the other goals; some state Pat Davies scored both, others attribute a goal to Jeannie Allott. I haven't yet found a reliable source for them so I'll replace the end of that sentence the next chance I get. The Wembley match points to the article for the new stadium but I can clarify that further (read somewhere that Gillian Coultard also got a cap for playing at the old stadium). Player records are mainly based on media reports (as far as I'm aware the FA doesn't maintain an online statistic database, unlike the DFB), so there may be some discrepancy. If I can source their goal tallies I'll add them. Fuebaey (talk) 13:22, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations

Congratulations on making it to today's listing on the "Did You Know..." section of Wikipedia Main Page. The process of making it the listing takes a bit of effort and involves the quick cooperation of many editors. All involved deserve recognition, appreciation, thanks and applause.

Best Regards,

Bfpage |leave a message 11:57, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kelly Smith also what?

"Players" section's subsection "Player records" has this strange sentence: Smith has also scored the highest number of goals for England, with 46 over a twenty year international career.
But Kelly Smith is not mentioned elsewhere in the article, except tables and sources. Infobox has her as the best goalscorer and above table as a "recent callup", but that's it. Seems that something has been removed from that chapter, since currently it doesn't make sense. 82.141.119.103 (talk) 01:55, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Potential Errors in Caps, Goals, and Recent Callups

The squad section has not been updated regularly, so there may be players missing and errors in caps & goals. (e.g., 2016 SheBelieves Cup squad may include players that were not called up for later matches, but because no one was actively maintaining it they could be missed.) Any source, etc., where someone could check for the accuracy of info listed here? mightytotems (talk) 18:24, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on England women's national football team. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20150402174809/https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/pitchside-europe/sleeping-rough-england-caps-record-inspirational-story-fara-194342852.html to https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/pitchside-europe/sleeping-rough-england-caps-record-inspirational-story-fara-194342852.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 06:34, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yellow cards in summaries

It is not normal in these summaries (for most major nations), nor inherently notable, to list Yellow Cards in matches. There has been some discussion and consensus on this in Wiki Project football in the past. This practice appears to have commenced only in the past few months. Whether the FA reports yellow cards as standard, and whether Wikipedia collects this information, are different things. Matilda Maniac (talk) 12:42, 2 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ella Toone

Why is Ella Toone classed as a midfielder, she plays as a forward for United. Even the FA shouldn't be trusted as a reliable source for this seen as they call her a forward and midfielder in the same article.^[1] Mn1548 (talk) 17:20, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ella Toone is a versatile player capable of playing as a midfielder and as a forward. Her Wikipedia page describes her as an attacking midfielder. Mattstan (talk) 17:50, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://www.thefa.com/england/womens-seniors/squad/ella-toone

1881 international Scotland v England

There seem to be many internet sites that talk of a Scotland v England international.for women. The game seems to have been won by Scotland. But I do not know If it would be official or a foorballnote. JOEYTHEVIMSANTEPOET (talk) 13:26, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I meant footballnote not foorballnote. JOEYTHEVIMSANTEPOET (talk) 13:27, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.thefa.com/england/womens-seniors/squad/ella-toone

[1]