Women's Football

The Scottish Women’s Premier League got under way today, with no major upsets recorded. Current Champions Glasgow City maintained their excellent form of having won every single domestic match for over a year and a half with a comfortable 5-0 win over Forfar Farmington at Glasgow Green.
In windy conditions, City took charge of the match [...]

Glasgow City will begin the defence of the Premier League title tomorrow when they welcome Forfar Farmington and Sky Sports to Glasgow Green for the first League match of the new season.
This campaign, City are going for four titles in a row as the women’s game fully launches into their change of season, with all [...]

Dick, Kerr Ladies Football Club – True Pioneers

Great video about some true pioneers of the game. They had a truly awesome playing record. Of the 828 games they played they won 758, drew 46 and lost only 24. Unfortunately they were subject to some pretty awful discrimination by the footballing authorities despite in some cases drawing bigger crowds to their matches than their male counterparts. As well as the video above there’s some pretty amazing footage on the British Pathe site of the team playing an evening game under searchlights.

SOCCER BY SEARCHLIGHT

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Read more about this amazing football team at the official biographical website.

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Scotland’s top women’s team, Glasgow City FC, have appointed Lindsay Hamilton as their new Goalkeeping Coach. With a career in the senior game spanning 20 years and close on 500 appearances, which included spells at Rangers, St. Johnstone and Dunfermline, Lindsay brings with him a wealth of experience which will go a long way to [...]

It’s the first chance for honours this Saturday when Glasgow City face Hibernian in the Premier League Cup Final at Alloa and City striker Suzanne Malone, knows more than most what her team will be up against.
Having started her career with Hibernian, the Edinburgh born player, had a number of successful years with the Capital [...]

Glasgow City maintained their excellent run with a convincing 6-1 win over Spartans at Glasgow Green. With Spartans sitting third in the League, this fixture was always going to be a stern test for the Champions, but they got off to a fantastic start when midfielder Leanne Ross scored within 50 seconds. Striker Ruesha Littlejohn [...]

The Scotland Womens A Squad has been announced ahead of their friendly with Northern Ireland later this month. Four players from Glasgow City have been called up. Defender Rachel Corsie and midfielders Megan Sneddon and Leanne Ross are joined by striker Jane Ross in a 17 strong Scotland squad to face the Irish in Belfast [...]

With the Old Firm derby on Sunday, it was business as usual on Saturday for the rest of Scottish football. St. Mirren finally won at their new home ground to end all talk of a …

Glasgow City, Celtic, Hibernian and Aberdeen have all progressed to the Quarter Final draw of the League Cup, which will include Rangers, Kilmarnock, Dundee Utd and Forfar, who all received byes.
Glasgow City progressed to the …
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Everton lost the league title which was only 90 minutes away from being their own in a cruel defeat as Arsenal became the only team to defeat the Toffee’s this season in a 1-0 victory at the Stobart Stadium, Widnes.[...]
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