2020–21 Scottish Women's Premier League

Scottish Women's Premier League 2
Season	2020–21
Matches played	49
Goals scored	186 (3.8 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bayley Hutchison; (5 goals)
Biggest home win	Hamilton Academical 8–0 Stirling University; (29 November 2020)
Biggest away win	Boroughmuir Thistle 0–9 Aberdeen; (25 October 2020)
Highest scoring	Boroughmuir Thistle 0–9 Aberdeen; (25 October 2020); Aberdeen 8–1 St Johnstone; (10 November 2020)
Longest winning run	Six games:; Aberdeen
Longest unbeaten run	Six games:; Aberdeen; Dundee United
Longest winless run	10 games:; Stirling University
Longest losing run	Six games:; Stirling University
	← 2020 2021–22 → All statistics correct as of 13 December 2020.

	Champions; Qualification for the 2021–22 Champions League qualifying round
	Qualification for the 2021–22 Champions League qualifying round

Scottish Women's Premier League 1
Season	2020–21
Matches played	28
Goals scored	114 (4.07 per match)
Top goalscorer	Donna Paterson; (7 goals)
Biggest home win	Rangers 9–0 Motherwell; (6 December 2020)
Biggest away win	Heart of Midlothian 0–10 Celtic; (1 November 2020)
Highest scoring	Heart of Midlothian 0–10 Celtic; (1 November 2020)
Longest winning run	Six games:; Glasgow City
Longest unbeaten run	Six games:; Glasgow City
Longest winless run	Five games:; Heart of Midlothian
Longest losing run	Five games:; Heart of Midlothian
	← 2020 2021–22 → All statistics correct as of 13 December 2020.

The 2020–21 Scottish Women's Premier League, known as the Scottish Building Society Scottish Women's Premier League for sponsorship reasons,[1] is due to be the 20th season of the Scottish Women's Premier League, the highest division of women's association football in Scotland since its inception in 2002. The league is split into two divisions - SWPL 1 with eight teams and SWPL 2 with 10 teams.[2] Glasgow City are the defending champions, having won the last completed championship in 2019.

The 2020 season was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and was subsequently declared null and void. Following this cancellation, the league reverted to a winter season format and is due to start in October 2020 and end in June 2021.[3] On 12 October 2020, the league announced that it had been agreed that there would be no relegation from SWPL 1, and that there would be 10 teams in the top division in the following season.[4]

Teams

Locations of teams in the 2020–21 SWPL 1

Glasgow

Glasgow teams
Glasgow Women
Partick Thistle
Queen's Park

Locations of teams in the 2020–21 SWPL 2

SWPL 1

Team	Location	Head coach	Home ground	Capacity	2019 position
Celtic	East Kilbride	Fran Alonso	K-Park Training Academy	1,000	3rd
Forfar Farmington	Forfar	Ryan McConville	Station Park	6,777	7th
Glasgow City	Glasgow	Scott Booth	Petershill Park	1,000	1st
Heart of Midlothian	Edinburgh	Andy Kirk	Oriam	1,000	1st in SWPL 2
Hibernian	Edinburgh	Dean Gibson	Ainslie Park	3,000	2nd
Motherwell	Motherwell	Eddie Wolecki Black	Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility	1,000	6th
Rangers	Milngavie	Grégory Vignal	Rangers Training Centre	500	4th
Spartans	Edinburgh	Debbi McCulloch	Ainslie Park	3,000	5th

Source: [5]

SWPL 2

Team	Location	Head coach	Home ground	Capacity	2019 position
Aberdeen	Aberdeen	Emma Hunter	Aberdeen Sports Village	1,000	1st in SWFL 1 North
Boroughmuir Thistle	Edinburgh	Suzy Shepherd	Meggetland Sports Complex	1,000	5th in SWFL 1 South
Dundee United	Dundee	Gavin Beith	GA Engineering Arena	1,000	3rd
Glasgow Women	Glasgow	Craig Joyce	Petershill Park	1,000	6th
Hamilton Academical	Hamilton	Gary Doctor	New Douglas Park	6,018	2nd
Kilmarnock	Kilmarnock	Andy Gardner	Rugby Park	17,889	4th
Partick Thistle	Glasgow	John Doyle	Petershill Park	1,000	5th
Queen's Park	Glasgow	Mark Kirk	Lesser Hampden	1,000	4th in SWFL 1 South
St Johnstone	Perth	Jason McCrindle	McDiarmid Park	10,696	7th
Stirling University	Stirling	Craig Beveridge	Gannochy Sports Centre	1,000	8th in SWPL 1

Source: [5]

SWPL 1

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rangers	7	6	0	1	24	3	+21	18	Qualification for the Champions League First Round
2	Glasgow City	7	6	0	1	24	9	+15	18	Qualification for the Champions League First Round
3	Celtic	7	5	1	1	25	6	+19	16
4	Hibernian	7	3	0	4	15	12	+3	9
5	Spartans	7	3	0	4	7	8	−1	9
6	Forfar Farmington	7	2	1	4	11	19	−8	7
7	Motherwell	7	1	0	6	5	29	−24	3
8	Heart of Midlothian	7	1	0	6	3	28	−25	3

Updated to match(es) played on 13 December 2020. Source: [6]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological progress, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Rangers	1	3	2	3	3	2	1
Glasgow City	3	1	1	1	1	1	2
Celtic	7	4	3	2	2	3	3
Hibernian	4	2	4	4	4	5	4
Spartans	5	6	6	6	5	6	5
Forfar Farmington	2	5	5	5	6	4	6
Motherwell	6	7	7	7	7	7	7
Heart of Midlothian	8	8	8	8	8	8	8

Source:

Results

Matches 1 to 14

Home \ Away	CEL	FOR	GLA	HOM	HIB	MOT	RAN	SPA
Celtic		2–2						1–0
Forfar Farmington				3–0		4–2	1–3
Glasgow City	2–0	8–1		5–0	3–2		0–5
Heart of Midlothian	0–10				1–0	0–3		1–2
Hibernian	2–6	3–0					0–1	2–1
Motherwell	0–5		0–3		0–6			0–2
Rangers	0–1			5–1		9–0
Spartans		1–0	1–3				0–1

Updated to match(es) played on 13 December 2020. Source: [6]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 15 to 21

Home \ Away	CEL	FOR	GLA	HOM	HIB	MOT	RAN	SPA
Celtic
Forfar Farmington
Glasgow City
Heart of Midlothian
Hibernian
Motherwell
Rangers
Spartans

First match(es) will be played on 2021. Source: [6]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

SWPL 2

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Aberdeen	10	9	0	1	43	10	+33	27	Promotion to SWPL 1
2	Dundee United	10	6	2	2	23	14	+9	20	Promotion to SWPL 1
3	Hamilton Academical	10	6	1	3	27	11	+16	19
4	Partick Thistle	10	6	1	3	23	12	+11	19
5	St Johnstone	9	5	1	3	19	17	+2	16
6	Queen's Park	10	4	1	5	14	21	−7	13
7	Glasgow Women	9	3	1	5	12	13	−1	10
8	Boroughmuir Thistle	10	3	0	7	11	27	−16	9
9	Kilmarnock	10	3	0	7	5	23	−18	9
10	Stirling University	10	0	1	9	9	38	−29	1	Qualification for the play-offs

Updated to match(es) played on 13 December 2020. Source: [7]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored

Positions by round

	Promotion to 2021–22 SWPL 1
	Qualification for the play-offs

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological progress, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Aberdeen	4	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Dundee United	7	7	6	6	8	6	4	3	2	2
Hamilton Academical	3	2	2	2	2	3	5	4	3	3
Partick Thistle	2	3	5	7	5	4	2	2	4	4
St Johnstone	6	5	4	4	4	7	8	7	7	5
Queen's Park	9	6	8	8	3	2	3	5	5	6
Glasgow Women	1	4	3	3	6	5	6	6	6	7
Boroughmuir Thistle	8	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	8
Kilmarnock	5	8	7	5	7	8	7	8	8	9
Stirling University	10	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10

Source: [7]

Results

Home \ Away	ABE	BOR	DUN	GLW	HAM	KIL	PAR	QPA	STJ	STI
Aberdeen			4–3			3–0		5–1	8–1
Boroughmuir Thistle	0–9		1–2			0–1	1–0	1–3	3–2
Dundee United		4–1		2–2	2–1					3–1
Glasgow Women	0–1	3–1					1–4			4–0
Hamilton Academical	0–1	3–1		1–2						8–0
Kilmarnock	0–5		0–4	1–0	0–3[lower-alpha 1]		1–2			2–1
Partick Thistle	5–1		1–1	1–0	1–3				2–3
Queen's Park			3–1	2–0	0–2	2–0	0–3		0–3
St Johnstone			0–1		2–2	3–0		3–0
Stirling University	0–6	0–2		3–3	2–4		1–4		1–2

Updated to match(es) played on 13 December 2020. Source: [7]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

Scottish Women's Football awarded Hamilton Academical a technical 3–0 victory after Kilmarnock fielded an ineligible player in their match on 25 October 2020. The match had originally finished 1–0 to Hamilton Academical.[8]

Statistics

Scoring

SWPL 1

As of 15 November 2020

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Donna Paterson	Forfar Farmington	6
2	Kirsty Howat	Glasgow City	4
3	Zoe Ness	Rangers	3
4	13 players		2

Source:

SWPL 2

As of 17 November 2020

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Bayley Hutchison	Aberdeen	9
2	Francesca Ogilvie	Aberdeen	4
	Eva Thomson	Aberdeen
	Robyn Smith	Dundee United
5	6 players		3

Source:

SWPL 1

No.	Player	For	Against	Date	Score	Ref
1	Zoe Ness	Rangers	Heart of Midlothian	18 October 2020	5–1	[9]
2	Kirsty Howat	Glasgow City	Forfar Farmington	1 November 2020	8–1	[10]
3	Donna Paterson	Forfar Farmington	Heart of Midlothian	8 November 2020	3–0	[11]

SWPL 2

No.	Player	For	Against	Date	Score	Ref
1	Bayley Hutchison	Aberdeen	Boroughmuir Thistle	25 October 2020	9–0	[12]

References

"LEAGUE START DATE ANNOUNCED WITH ENHANCED BROADCAST DEAL". Scottish Women's Football. 29 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
"New Senior Structure for 2020 and beyond". Scottish Women's Premier League. 19 September 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
Lewis, Jane (29 July 2020). "SWPL season declared null and void after one round of games". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
"SWPL: No relegation this season with top flight to expand to 10 teams". BBC Sport. BBC. 12 October 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
"Scottish Women's Premier League". Scottish Women's Premier League. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
"Summary - SWPL1". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
"Summary - SWPL2". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
"SWF Statement – Kilmarnock v Hamilton Academical". Scottish Women's Premier League. 4 November 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
"Rangers 5-1 Hearts". Scottish Women's Premier League. 18 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
"Glasgow City 8-1 Forfar Farmington". Scottish Women's Premier League. 1 November 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
"Forfar Farmington 3-0 Hearts". Scottish Women's Premier League. 8 November 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
"Boroughmuir Thistle 0-9 Aberdeen". Scottish Women's Premier League. 25 October 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.

External links

Official website

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[table_note_KIL_HAM0.61894307360935-9] Scottish Women's Football awarded Hamilton Academical a technical 3–0 victory after Kilmarnock fielded an ineligible player in their match on 25 October 2020. The match had originally finished 1–0 to Hamilton Academical.[8]

[1] "LEAGUE START DATE ANNOUNCED WITH ENHANCED BROADCAST DEAL". Scottish Women's Football. 29 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.

[structure-2] "New Senior Structure for 2020 and beyond". Scottish Women's Premier League. 19 September 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.

[3] Lewis, Jane (29 July 2020). "SWPL season declared null and void after one round of games". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 29 July 2020.

[4] "SWPL: No relegation this season with top flight to expand to 10 teams". BBC Sport. BBC. 12 October 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.

[teams-5] "Scottish Women's Premier League". Scottish Women's Premier League. Retrieved 24 February 2019.

[soccerway-6] "Summary - SWPL1". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 December 2020.

[soccerway2-7] "Summary - SWPL2". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 December 2020.

[8] "SWF Statement – Kilmarnock v Hamilton Academical". Scottish Women's Premier League. 4 November 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.

[10] "Rangers 5-1 Hearts". Scottish Women's Premier League. 18 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.

[11] "Glasgow City 8-1 Forfar Farmington". Scottish Women's Premier League. 1 November 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.

[12] "Forfar Farmington 3-0 Hearts". Scottish Women's Premier League. 8 November 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.

[13] "Boroughmuir Thistle 0-9 Aberdeen". Scottish Women's Premier League. 25 October 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.

2020–21 in Scottish football
« 2019–20 2021–22 »
Domestic leagues	SPFL Premiership Championship League One League Two Highland Lowland East of Scotland South of Scotland West of Scotland North Caledonian SJFA East Premiership SJFA North Superleague SPFL Reserve League 2020 Women's Premier League SWPL 1 SWPL 2 2020–21 Women's Premier League SWPL 1 SWPL 2 2020 Women's Championship North South 2020–21 Women's Championship North South
Domestic cups	Scottish Cup League Cup Group stage Final ~~Challenge Cup~~ South Region Challenge Cup Junior Cup Youth Cup Women's Cup Women's Premier League Cup
European competitions	Champions League Europa League Youth League
Related to national team	Results Men's Women's 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification 2020–21 UEFA Nations League UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying
Transfers	Summer 2020 Winter 2020–21
Club seasons
Premiership	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee United Hamilton Academical Hibernian Kilmarnock Livingston Motherwell Rangers Ross County St Johnstone St Mirren
Championship	Alloa Athletic Arbroath Ayr United Dundee Dunfermline Athletic Greenock Morton Heart of Midlothian Inverness Caledonian Thistle Queen of the South Raith Rovers
League One	Airdrieonians Clyde Cove Rangers Dumbarton East Fife Falkirk Forfar Athletic Montrose Partick Thistle Peterhead
League Two	Albion Rovers Annan Athletic Brechin City Cowdenbeath Edinburgh City Elgin City Queen's Park Stenhousemuir Stirling Albion Stranraer

2020–21 in European women's football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Faroe Islands '20 '21 Finland '20 '21 France Germany Gibraltar Iceland '20 '21 Italy Lithuania '20 '21 Moldova Netherlands Northern Ireland '20 '21 Norway '20 '21 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '20 '21 Romania Russia '20 '21 Scotland '20 '20–21 Spain Sweden '20 '21 Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Croatia England Germany Iceland '20 '21 Moldova Portugal Spain Sweden Wales
League cups	England Portugal Scotland
UEFA competitions	Women's Champions League qualifying rounds knockout phase Final
International competitions	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup UEFA qualification UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualification 2021 Women's Euro Under-19 qualification 2021 Women's Euro Under-17 qualification