Girls Football Academy Explained
| Clubname: | GFA |
| Fullname: | Girls Football Academy |
| Founded: | November 2011 |
| 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
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: First football academy exclusively for girls opens in Lebanon. www.dailystar.com.lb. 15 March 2019. 3 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130103031634/http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Sports/Football/2011/Nov-12/153872-first-football-academy-exclusively-for-girls-opens-in-lebanon.ashx. dead.
- Web site: Lebanon - List of Women Champions. RSSSF. 15 March 2019.
- Web site: Lebanon (Women) 2017/18. RSSSF. 28 February 2019.
- Web site: Haytham Pictures Agency Football girls of Beirut. 2020-12-17. www.haythampictures.com. fr.
- Web site: DISCOVER FOOTBALL: Nadia Assaf Lebanon. 2020-12-17. www.discoverfootball.de. 21 May 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220521123046/http://www.discoverfootball.de/projekte/sonstige-projekte-seit-2009/kampagne-2014-moving-perspectives-brasilien/ausstellung/nadia-assaf-lebanon/. dead.
