England women's national football team Batt's team also participated in two FIEFF World Cups held in Italy (1970) and Mexico (1971). Following an UEFA recommendation in 1972 for national associations to incorporate the women's game, the Football Association (FA) rescinded its fifty-year ban on women playing on Football League grounds. Shortly after, Eric Worthington was tasked by the WFA to assemble an official women's national team. England competed in its first international match against Scotland in Greenock on 18 November 1972, almost 100 years after the first men's international. The team overturned a two-goal deficit to defeat their northern opponents by 3 goals to 2,
Ivory Coast women's national football team Ivory Coast women's national football team The Ivory Coast women's national football team represents Ivory Coast in international women's football and it is controlled by the Fédération Ivoirienne de Football. They played their first international match in 1988. They are currently ranked 64th in the FIFA Women's World Rankings and the 6th best team in CAF. In 1985, almost no country in the world had a women's national football team, including Côte d'Ivoire who did not play their first FIFA recognised match until 1988 when they participated in the Women's FIFA Invitational Tournament 1988. The country was in Group A.