Girls Football Academy
Women's association football club from Lebanon
Football club
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Full name | Girls Football Academy | ||
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Founded | November 2011 | ||
Dissolved | 31 August 2017; 6 years ago (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]
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
- Lebanese Women's FA Cup
- Runners-up (1): 2015–16
See also
- Lebanese Women's Football League
- Women's football in Lebanon
- List of women's association football clubs in Lebanon
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Haytham Pictures Agency | Football girls of Beirut". www.haythampictures.com (in French). Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ^ "DISCOVER FOOTBALL: Nadia Assaf Lebanon". www.discoverfootball.de. Archived from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
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