Football club
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| Full name | Girls Football Academy | ||
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| Founded | November 2011 | ||
| Dissolved | 31 August 2017; 7 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.
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. They withdrew their team in 2017, prior to the 2017–18 season.
History
GFA was founded in November 2011 by former international footballer Nadia Assaf and her friend Walid Arakii, as the first private football academy for girls in the Middle East.
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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