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.[1]
| Full name | Girls Football Academy | ||
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| Founded | November 2011 | ||
| Dissolved | 31 August 2017; 4 years ago (31 August 2017) | ||
| League | Lebanese Women's Football League | ||
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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.[2] They withdrew their team in 2017, prior to the 2017–18 season.[3]
GFA was founded in November 2011 by former international footballer Nadia Assaf and her friend Walid Arakii,[4] as the first private football academy for girls in the Middle East.[5]
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