| Full name | British Ladies' Football Club | |
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| Founded | 1895 | |
| Dissolved | c. 1897 | |
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The British Ladies' Football Club was a women's association football team formed in Great Britain in 1895. The team, one of the first women's football clubs, had as its patron Lady Florence Dixie, an aristocrat from Dumfries, and its first captain was Nettie Honeyball (real name likely Mary Hutson).[1]
The club's first public match took place at Crouch End, London on 23 March 1895, between teams representing 'The North' and 'The South'. The North won 7–1 in front of an estimated 11,000 spectators.[2] [3]The club and its associated teams under different names played matches regularly until April 1897.[4] It was briefly revived in 1902–03.[4]
- ^ "The Honeyballers: Women who fought to play football". BBC News. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ^ "Ladies' Football Match". The Standard. London. 25 March 1895. Retrieved 17 February 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "1895: Women's Football Makes its Official Debut in Hornsey". Hornsey Historical Society. 2019.
- ^ a b Patrick Brennan. "The British Ladies' Football Club". Donmouth. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022.