the most important championship in international football competition for women is the Women's World Cup. Organised by FIFA - the sport's largest governing body - its first tournament was held in 1991, sixty-one years after the first one for men.Although established not long ago, the Women's World Cup is growing in popularity. Its first championship was hosted in China with 12 teams sent to represent their countries. Eight years later, over 650,000 spectators attended the finals, and nearly a billion viewers from 70 countries watched them on TV. And by the fourth tournament in 2003, the number of finalists had increased to 16.As FIFA estimates, the current 40 million girls and women playing football around the world will equal the number of men by 2010.
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