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Below are the rosters for the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup tournament in China. The 12 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 18 players, including at least two goalkeepers. Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.
The 1999 World Cup final, in which the United States defeated China, set a world attendance record for a women's soccer event of 90,185 in a sellout at the Rose Bowl in Southern California (until it was broken on March 30, 2022, with 91,553 people at the Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain in the second-leg of a UEFA Women's Champions League match). [114]
The team is fielded by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF), the governing body of soccer in the United States, and competes as a member of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF). The United States competed in their first international match on August 18, 1985, a 1–0 loss in the ...
The 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup was the first FIFA Women's World Cup, the world championship for women's national football teams. It took place in Guangdong , China from 16 to 30 November 1991. FIFA , football's international governing body selected China as host nation as Guangdong had hosted a prototype world championship three years earlier ...
November 21, 1991 Women's World Cup Group B Foshan, China: Japan: 3–0 Michelle Akers-Stahl (2), Wendy Gebauer [7] November 24, 1991 Women's World Cup Quarterfinal Foshan, China Chinese Taipei: 7–0 Michelle Akers-Stahl (5), Julie Foudy, Joy Biefeld [8] November 27, 1991 Women's World Cup semifinal Guangzhou, China: Germany: 5–2
In 1982, the year the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) started sponsoring women’s sports, across all three NCAA divisions 1,855 participated in women’s soccer on 80 teams ...
After graduating high school in Frisco, Texas, rather than try her hand at collegiate soccer, Shaw went straight to the pros. At 19, she is the youngest player on the U.S. Women’s Olympic roster.
Lineups in the first women's World Cup final. For the first World Cup Women's Championship, the United States qualified as the North and Central America Qualifications.At a tournament in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, they met in the first round Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, and Martinique (who, as a non-FIFA member, could not qualify for the World Cup).