The "Sports Girl" did not come into fashion until the 1920s when women started to form their own clubs.

Lotte Specht was one of the first female to form a women's only football club.

The DFB finally officially allowed women players on October 30, 1970, but there were modifications to the rules.

[6] On September 8, 1974, the first women's champion in football was awarded to TuS Wörrstadt.

[7] The first women's DFB Cup was held in 1981 with SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach defeating TuS Wörrstadt 5–0 in the final match in front of 35,000 spectators.

The women's national team (coached by Gero Bisanz) played its first game (as West Germany) on November 10, 1982, against Switzerland.

[6] This was the first women's football game broadcast live in Germany.

This was an attendance record for a German women's team that would last until May 24, 2008, when 27,460 spectators watched 1.

FFC Frankfurt defeat Umeå IK 3–2 in the UEFA Women's Cup.

As a result of the national team's success in the 1989 European Competition, in 1990 the DFB founded the first women's Bundesliga with twenty teams divided into two groups, a Northern Conference and a Southern Conference.