Women Playing Football
Since 18th Century
Females Playing Sports were Frowned Upon

England's previous largest crowd was 29,092 at Etihad Stadium for a Euro 2005 victory over Finland.

The first women's DFB Cup was held in 1981 with SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach defeating TuS Wörrstadt 5-0 in the final match in front of 35,000 spectators.

The "Sports Girl" did not come into fashion until the 1920s when women started to form their own clubs. In 1955 the German Football Association declared that they would not permit women into the association stating that women were frail and unable to perform in the sport without injuring themselves. During the 1960s there was discussion about setting up a Woman's Football Association, but it never panned out.