Swansea City Ladies F.C.

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. The ladies were recently crowned champions after the 2019-20 season was cut short.

Swansea City
Full nameSwansea City Ladies Football Club
Nickname(s)The Swans
Founded2002
GroundLlandarcy Academy of Sport
Neath, Wales
Capacity2,000
ManagerColin Staples
League Welsh Premier Women's League
2019–201st
WebsiteClub website

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 Women's 4–2 in the FAW Women's Cup.

Thu 28 Apr 2016 Swansea beat PILCS in the Welsh Premier Women's 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.

Current squad
As of 31 July 2020.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF  WAL Ria Hughes
— DF  WAL Shaunna Jenkins
— DF  WAL Alicia Powe (captain)
— DF  WAL Ellie Lake
— DF  WAL Nieve Jenkins
— DF  NED Phoebe Ware
— DF  WAL Jess Williams
— DF  WAL Kelly Adams
— DF  WAL Tjia Richardson
No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK  WAL Gemma Border
— MF  WAL Emma Beynon
— MF  WAL Sarah Adams
— MF  WAL Katy Hosford
— MF  WAL Lauren Smith
— MF  WAL Cerys Bevan
— FW  WAL Stacey John-Davies
— FW  WAL Chloe Chivers

Honours

Record in UEFA Women's Champions League

Summary
Pld W D L GF GA Last season played
9 2 0 7 6 39 2017–18

By season
Season Round Opponent Home Away Agg
2010–11 Qualifying round Bardolino 0–7[15] 3rd of 4[16]
Krka 0–4[17]
Baia Zugdidi 2–1[18]
2011–12 Qualifying round Lehenda-ShVSM 0–2[19] 3rd of 4[20]
Apollon Limassol 0–8[21]
Progrès Niederkorn 4–0[22]
2017–18 Qualifying round Hibernian 0–5[23] 4th of 4[24]
Olimpia Cluj 0–3[25]
Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv 0–9[26]

Club officials
PositionName
ChairmanLeigh Dineen
ManagerColin Staples
CoachChris Church
Goalkeeper Coach

References
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