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Article title: List of top-division women's football clubs in UEFA countries
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) is the organizing body for European football (soccer). The organization consists of 55 member associations, each of which is responsible for governing football in their respective countries.[1]
Clubs playing in each country's top-level league compete for the title as their nation's club champions. Clubs also compete in the league and national cup competitions for places in the following season's UEFA club competitions, the UEFA Women's Champions League and UEFA Women's Euro. Due to promotion and relegation, the clubs playing in the top-level league are different every season, except in San Marino and Gibraltar where there is only one level.[2]
All widely recognised sovereign states located within Europe are members of UEFA, with the exceptions of the United Kingdom, Monaco and Vatican City. Eight states partially or entirely outside Europe are also members: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Israel, Cyprus and Turkey.[1] The United Kingdom is divided into the four separate football associations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales; each association has a separate UEFA membership. The Faroe Islands, an autonomous country of the Kingdom of Denmark, also has its own football association which is a member of UEFA.[1] The football association of Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory, was approved as a member by UEFA in 2013.[3] Kosovo was approved as a member in 2016, even though it is claimed by Serbia and is not recognised by several other UEFA member states.