Women's Football – 37 Vintage Photos of First Ladies' Soccer Teams Ever

By | October 19, 2016

Let's take a look at these rarely historic photos to see the beginning days of women's football teams in the late 19th to early 20th centuries.

The British Ladies' Football Club (North team), also known as the first women's football team ever, 1895
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The British Ladies' Football Club (South team), 1895
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Rosy Rapids FC, Wheatley Hill, County Durham, 1909
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Lancashire United Transport Ladies FC, Atherton, Lancashire, 1915
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North Eastern Marine Ladies, 1915
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Wallsend Slipway Ladies, 1917
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Whitehaven Ladies, 1917
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Mossband Munition Girls, Mossband, Cumberland, 1917
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Derwent Mills Ladies, Cockermouth, 1917
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Pratchitt's Ladies, Carlisle, 1917
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Vulcan Shell Girls, Vulcan Foundry and Railway Works, Newton-le-Willows, 1917
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Workington Ladies FC, 1917
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Armstrong's Elswick Factory, 1917
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Government Rolling Mills Ladies (Woolston, Southampton), 1917
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Ramsey Girls FC, 1917
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Ramsey Girls FC, 1917
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Barnsley Shell Factory, 1917
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Rudge Ladies, Coventry, 1918
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White and Poppe's Ladies, Coventry, 1918
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Humber Ladies, Coventry, with the Coventry Sportsmen's Challenge Cup, 1918
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Birtley Cartridge Case Factory, 1918
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Barrow YMCA Ladies FC, 1918
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Hood Haggies Munition Girls, 1918
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Armstrong's No. 43 Shell Shop, Scotswood, Newcastle, 1918
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Blyth Spartans Munition Girls - Munitionette Cup Winners, 1918
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Bolckow, Vaughan (Middlesbrough) Ladies - Munitionette Cup Runners-up, 1918
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Carlisle Munition Girls 1918
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Swansea National Shell Factory, 1918
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Bucknall Reserve Ladies at Queen's Park, Longton, Staffordshire, 1918
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West of Scotland Ladies, 1918
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Wallsend Slipway Ladies F.C., 1918
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Lever Brothers Ladies - Port Sunlight, 1918
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Darlington North Eastern Railway Workshops, 1918
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Brown's Sawmills, Hartlepool, 1918
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Marconi Ladies, 1918
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Dainty Dinahs, Chester-le-Street, 1918
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Lancaster Ladies FC, 1919
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H/T Vintag.es