![Two female footballers training behind the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich, March 1968.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/2018/09/Frauenfussball_Titel-300x188.jpg)
Football for all – but only for the last 50 years
1968 marked a turning point in the history of Swiss football. It was the year the sport finally became accessible to everyone: on 28 February, with the establishment of ‘Damen-Fussball-Club Zürich’ (DFCZ), Switzerland’s first women’s football club was founded.
![First team photo of Zurich Women’s Football Club. Taken in March 1968.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/2018/09/Damenfussballclub_Zuerich-300x191.jpg)
![Article about the new women’s team in the Tribune des Sports.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/2018/09/FCZ_Frauen_Artikel-218x300.jpg)
![Photos of reportage about Zurich Women’s Football Club. The pictures were taken in March 1968 by the photo agency ASL, and were the first of their kind in Switzerland.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/2018/09/Frauenfussball_Training-300x199.jpg)
![Women footballers training at Letzigrund.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/2018/09/DFC_Zürch_Training-300x201.jpg)
![In the focus of press photography for the first time: women's football.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/2018/09/Goalie_Frauenfussball-300x198.jpg)