Millwall Lionesses L.F.C.

Millwall Lionesses L.F.C.

Millwall Lionesses Ladies Football Club were founded in March 1972 by Patricia Maslin and Rita Bullions. In a time when women's football was almost unheard of the group of women who made up the Lionesses were at first snubbed by Millwall FC but went on to became the first women's football team to affiliate to a professional men's team, Millwall F.C. (aka The Lions). The Lionesses were pioneers of the "Football in the Community Scheme" which is now common in football, but unheard of in the early 1970s.