If you look hard enough you can find information on the Web about women’s football but there is barely a mention of the story of the Women’s Football Association from its inception in the late 1960s until the decision was made in 1993 to hand over the organisation of this burgeoning sport to The Football Association.
The information on this site has been drawn in the main from the collection of WFA minutes and newsletters which were collated by the late David Marlowe who served the association in various capacities, notably as Chairman, Rules Co-ordinator and Company Secretary. These documents, plus others from his collection, have been donated by his widow, Pam Marlowe, to The British Library to ensure that they are held in a place of safety and will be available in the future for those interested in the history. In the compilation of this site supplementary information has sometimes been from personal records/recollections of those who were involved and will be added to from time to time.
Even though we are now well into the twenty-first century the WFA hardly merits a mention on The FA website and there has been no record of the successes of the first official England national team or the beginnings of the national Cup competition. Underlying everything we did – or could not do – in those early years was the lack of money. Every volunteer, upon whom the sport relied, was in some measure supporting their club, league or the association. In some cases all three.
This site is designed to record the work of so many volunteers over those formative years of the sport until 1993. It would be wrong for their efforts to continue to go unnoticed for without their devotion women’s football in England would not hold the position it enjoys in the twenty-first century.
History of the Women's Football Association 