Girls Football Academy  Girls Football Academy, or simply GFA, was a Lebanese women's association football club based in Beirut. Founded in 2011 as the first exclusively female football academy in the Middle East, GFA were runners up three times in a row in the legue, between 2012 and 2014, as well as in the 2015–16 FA Cup. They withdrew their team in 2017, prior to the 2017–18 season.