The Lionesses are the England women's senior national football team. Formed in 1972, they won their first major tournament at ...

The trailblazing sporting heroes, who wore T-shirts with the slogan '1972 ... Football's coming home.' Many of those queuing were die hard England fans who support both the women and men's team.

England's first official women's team did not receive caps from the Football Association for playing in their inaugural international match on 18 November 1972 - a 3-2 win over Scotland.

Members of England's inaugural team of 1972 will line up with the current ... The FA banned women's football in 1921, a time when the women's game was attracting crowds of 53,000, and it wasn ...

Sheila Parker, 75, led the side to victory over Scotland in 1972, a year after a ban on women’s football was lifted. But it’s only now that her original England team members have been properly ...