Swansea City Ladies F.C.
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| Full name | Swansea City Ladies Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Swans | ||
| Founded | 2002 | ||
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Llandarcy Academy Of Sport Neath, Wales | ||
| Capacity | 2,000 | ||
| Manager | Ian Owen | ||
| League | Women's Welsh Premier League | ||
| 2016–17 | 1st | ||
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Swansea City Ladies Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed Merched Dinas Abertawe) is a ladies football club based in Swansea, Wales, currently playing in the Women's Welsh Premier League and South Wales Ladies Football League.
History
Formed in 2002, the team were members of the inaugural Welsh Premier Women's League in 2009/10 and came top of the Southern Conference, winning all six of their matches.
This set up a meeting with Northern winners, Caernarfon Town Ladies, with the winner clinching the title and becoming Wales' representatives in the UEFA Women's Champions League.
They beat the Canaries 4-0 at Haverfordwest to qualify for Europe for the very first time.[1] For the first time Swansea qualified to UEFA competitions in 2010 after winning the Welsh Premier League. As Wales is not in the top leagues by the UEFA coefficient for women, the team had to go through the qualifying stage of the UEFA Women's Champions League. Swansea City were drawn out in Group 5 and paired with ŽNK Krka (Slovenia) - who hosted the mini group - top seeds CF Bardolino Verona (Italy) and FC Baia Zugdidi (Georgia).[2] Swansea achieved one win in its group, beating Baia Zugdidi 2–1 and ended the group on place 3 of 4, thus failing to move on to the knockout stages.
They defended their title in 2011 again against Caernarfon with a 3–1 final win, thus would participate in the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League.
19 April 2015 Swansea Beat Cardiff City Womens 4-2 in the FAW Women's Cup.
Thu 28 Apr 2016 Swansea beat PILCS in the Welsh Premier Womens League Cup 4-0.
In the 2016/2017 they lost the first game of the season in a thrilling 5-4 contest at home to Abergavenny. They then went on to remain unbeaten the whole season, winning the league comfortably, and crowned champions after a 4-0 win against Cyncoed. Setting the girls up for a return to Europe. The girls headed to Cluj, Romania, where they played Hibernian, Olimpia Cluj and Zhytlobud-2.
Returning home after Champions League, the girls went on to secure second in the league after a tough campaign. They did win the FAW Cup, 2-1 with goals coming from Jodie Passmore and Katy Hosford to beat Cardiff City at the Cardiff City Stadium, bring the FAW cup home to the Liberty.
Honours
- Welsh Women's Premier League champions
- 2009-10, 2010–11, 2016–17[3]
- Welsh Women's Cup champions
- 2011, 2015, 2018
- Welsh Women's Premier League Cup winners
- 2016[4]
- South Wales Women's League champions
- 2006-07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2015-16
- South Wales Women's League Cup winners
- 2007, 2008
Current squad
- As of 25 June 2018.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Club officials
| Position | Name |
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| Chairman | Leigh Dineen |
| Manager | Ian Owen |
| Coach | Chris Church |
| Coach | Jack Spillets |
References
- ↑ "Ladies book European place". Swansea City A.F.C. 10 May 2010. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
- ↑ "Swans Ladies are Slovenia bound". Swansea City A.F.C. 22 June 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
- ↑ "Net draw hands Swansea Welsh title". shekicks.net. 17 April 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
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