The Matilda Effect: how our female footballers have taken centre

They were the first Australian sports team to ever visit North Korea, they were also the first side to pose nude for a calendar and they're the first Australian team – male or female – to reach the quarter finals of a FIFA World Cup, not once but three times.  This team is the Matildas. Their journey to global success hasn't been easy. Like women's football around the world, male football associations denied their existence for decades. 

Matildas player ratings as Sweden take bronze against the Women's World Cup hosts

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Matildas statue plan divides opinion after historic run at Women's World Cup - Yahoo Sport

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Fiona Crawford on LinkedIn: The Matilda Effect: Women's football as a lens for global gender equality…

Australia women prepare for home World Cup against backdrop of historical abuse allegations - BBC Sport

Australian National Dictionary Centre's 2023 Word of the Year inspired by our soccer stars — the Matildas - ABC News

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Book event: The Matilda Effect with Fiona Crawford and Grace Gill

Institute of Community Directors Australia (ICDA)

Lobbying, lamingtons and the long road to 88: early Matildas on the trial Women's World Cup, Matildas