Why does Great Britain not have a womens football team in the olympics?

Question

i find this very sexist as womens football is just as enjoyable to watch as mens. anyone with a valid reason please tell me why!!

Answer 1

i think its because they don't have an olympic committee for soccer or something like that

i'm positive its nothing to do with the players thing

Answer 2

Probably because they weren't good enough to qualify for the olympics....

Answer 3

Beacuse we have England womens national team so for the same reason we don't have a GB mens team.

Answer 4

Because team GB never enters Olympic Football, for men's, women's, or, as far as i'm aware, the Paralympics.

the three other FA's - Scottish FA, Welsh FA and Northern Irish FA - refuse to join and an all England team is, i believe, against the rules.

As we enter the Olympics as a group, the Football competitions would work on a quota system, so many English, so many Scottish, so many Welsh and so many Northern Irish players.

The Scottish and Welsh FAs refuse to join as they believe it would jepeordise their FIFA rankings and they also refuse because they believe that they would be pressured into joing a GB team for World Cups and European Championships as well, which would mean that their international representation would drop from 23 players to around 5 players, which is bad for their respective domestic leagues. FIFA have said they will stop these things from happening but the Scots and the Welsh are wary. The Northern Irish have not yet been approached because negotions with the Scots and the Welsh were the priority as they are the most problematic. Northern Ireland is expected to co-operate easily, so negotiations with them were left on the back burner.

This is the situation in the mens game, the womens game will probably be facing similar problems.

the solution may be that England should agree to participate in the Home Nations tournament that The Scots and Welsh were trying to instigate, if the Scots and Welsh join the Olympic team.

a womens team GB would be awesome though and i've got my fingers crossed for a compromise because the women would be very entertaining and would guarentee us at least one medal.

Answer 5

Mens footbal is far more entertaining and out rates womens football everytime it is shown.