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By 2004, there are 4,956 football clubs organized in Turkey, and a registered 4,775 professional and 136,823 amateur players with 233 women.
796 male and 20 femalefootball referees are licensed by the TFF.
Football, hugely popular in Turkey, was brought there in the second half of the 19th century when English tobacco and cotton traders visited the main harbour towns of the Ottoman Empire.
Women's association football (Women's soccer) is the most prominent team sport for women in many countries, and one of the few women's team sports with professional leagues.
Women's football first became popular on a large scale during World War I, when employment of women in heavy industry spurred the growth of the game via company teams, much as it had done for men fifty years earlier.
The Football Association, in England, banned women from playing the game on Association members' pitches, on the grounds that the game (as played by women) was distasteful.
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