British Ladies' Football Club
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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]
Full name | British Ladies' Football Club | |
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Founded | 1895 | |
Dissolved | c. 1897 | |
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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] The club and its associated teams under different names played matches regularly until April 1897.[3] It was briefly revived in 1902–03.[3]