Women's Football
As in Europe's advanced countries, Japanese women's association football is organized on a promotion and relegation basis. The top flight of women's association football is the semi-professional L. League (currently billed as the Nadeshiko League). Most clubs are independent clubs, although the recent trend is to have women's sections of established J. League clubs.
The national team is the reigning world champion, having achieved its greatest triumph ever by winning the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany.
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