Women's International Football Results

Context

This is a work-in-progress sister data set to the men's international football results dataset. If you're interested in helping out, submit a pull request here.

Content

Currently, the dataset includes 9,652 women's international football results. All major tournament results should be complete. Some international friendlies, particularly tournaments, are included. A LOT of results are not yet in the dataset.

results.csv includes the following columns:

• date - date of the match
• home_team - the name of the home team
• away_team - the name of the away team
• home_score - full-time home team score including extra time, not including penalty-shootouts
• away_score - full-time away team score including extra time, not including penalty-shootouts
• tournament - the name of the tournament
• city - the name of the city/town/administrative unit where the match was played
• country - the name of the country where the match was played
• neutral - TRUE/FALSE column indicating whether the match was played at a neutral venue

Acknowledgements

The data is gathered from several sources including but not limited to Wikipedia, fifa.com, rsssf.com and individual football associations' websites.

Inspiration

Some directions to take when exploring the data:

• Who is the best team of all time
• Which teams dominated different eras of football
• What trends have there been in international football throughout the ages - home advantage, total goals scored, distribution of teams' strength etc
• Can we say anything about geopolitics from football fixtures - how has the number of countries changed, which teams like to play each other
• Which countries host the most matches where they themselves are not participating in
• How much, if at all, does hosting a major tournament help a country's chances in the tournament
• Which teams are the most active in playing friendlies and friendly tournaments - does it help or hurt them

The world's your oyster, my friend.

Contribute

If you notice a mistake or the results are being updated fast enough for your liking, you can fix that by submitting a pull request on github.

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