Girls_Football_Academy

Girls Football Academy

Girls Football Academy

Women's association football club from Lebanon

This article is about the Lebanese women's football club. For other uses, see GFA.

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]

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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]

History

GFA was founded in November 2011 by former international footballer Nadia Assaf and her friend Walid Arakii,[4] as the first private football academy for girls in the Middle East.[5]

Honours

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "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.
  2. [2]
    "Lebanon - List of Women Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Lebanon (Women) 2017/18". RSSSF. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Haytham Pictures Agency | Football girls of Beirut". www.haythampictures.com (in French). Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  5. [5]
    "DISCOVER FOOTBALL: Nadia Assaf Lebanon". www.discoverfootball.de. Archived from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2020.


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