Great Britain and Northern Ireland women's Olympic football team
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| Association | The FA |
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| Head coach | Hope Powell |
| Captain | Casey Stoney |
| Most caps | 11 players (5) |
| Top scorer | Steph Houghton (3) |
| FIFA code | GBR |
| First international | |
 Great Britain 0–0 Sweden  (Middlesbrough, United Kingdom; 20 July 2012) |
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| Biggest win | |
Great Britain 3-0 Cameroon  (Cardiff, United Kingdom; 28 July 2012) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
Great Britain 0-1 Canada  (Coventry, United Kingdom; 3 August 2012) |
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| Olympic Games | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2012) |
| Best result | Quarter-finals, 2012 |
The Great Britain women's Olympic football team (also known as Team GB; or occasionally Great Britain and Northern Ireland) represents the United Kingdom in the women's football tournament at the Olympic Games. There is normally no team representing the United Kingdom at women's football: separate teams compete for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. With the 2012 Summer Olympics scheduled to take place in London, an Olympic football team was created to take the automatic qualifying place of the hosts. Following an agreement between the British Olympic Association (BOA) and The Football Association (FA), which operates the England team, the FA selected the British team, which could include players from across the United Kingdom.
When the Football Association (FA) was formed in 1863, its geographical remit was not clear: there was no specification of whether it covered just England, the entire UK or even the entire world. The question was answered when the Scottish Football Association (SFA) was founded in 1873. The third national football association, the Football Association of Wales was founded in 1876 and a fourth, the Irish Football Association, (IFA), was founded in 1880. Football therefore developed with separate national teams representing separate associations for each of the countries of the United Kingdom and no 'United Kingdom football association' was ever formed. Whilst a team selected by the FA, sometimes including players from outside England, did represent the UK at men's Olympic football between 1908 and 1972, the UK had stopped entering teams into the Olympic football tournament by the time of the first women's football competition at the 1996 Games.
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