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| Full name | Girls Football Academy | ||
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| Founded | November 2011 | ||
| Dissolved | 31 August 2017 | ||
| League | Lebanese Women's Football League | ||
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Girls Football Academy, or simply GFA, is a women's football academy based in Beirut, Lebanon. They were founded in 2011 as the first exclusively female football academy in the Middle East.[1]
GFA's senior team were runners up three times in a row in the Lebanese Women's Football League, between 2012 and 2014, as well as in the 2015–16 Lebanese Women's FA Cup.[2] They withdrew their team in 2017, prior to the 2017–18 season.[3]
- ^ "First football academy exclusively for girls opens in Lebanon". www.dailystar.com.lb. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Lebanon - List of Women Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Lebanon (Women) 2017/18". RSSSF. Retrieved 28 February 2019.