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Swansea City
Full nameSwansea City Ladies Football Club
Nickname(s)The Swans
Founded2002
GroundLlandarcy Academy of Sport
Neath, Wales
Capacity2,000
ManagerCeri Phillips
LeagueAdran Premier
2023–24Adran Premier, 2nd of 8
WebsiteClub website

Swansea City Ladies Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed Merched Dinas Abertawe) is a women's football club based in Swansea, Wales, currently playing in the Adran Premier, the top level of female competition in Wales.

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.

On 28 April 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 women 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 Liberty Stadium in Swansea

As of August 2023, Swansea City Ladies F.C became Swansea City AFC Women semi-professional team.

2022-2023

Champions League

Swansea City were drawn against tournament hosts and Greek champions PAOK in the first round of the qualifying bracket.

Hosted by PAOK.

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
18 August
 
 
Greece PAOK2
 
21 August
 
Wales Swansea City0
 
Greece PAOK0
 
18 August
 
Scotland Rangers4
 
Hungary Ferencváros1
 
 
Scotland Rangers3
 
Third place
 
 
21 August
 
 
Wales Swansea City0
 
 
Hungary Ferencváros7

Despite a valiant effort, Swansea lost 2-0 against PAOK to bow out of the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League in the First Round of Qualifying.

Players

Current squad

As of 16 August 2022.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Wales WAL Claire Skinner
24 GK Wales WAL Chelsea Herbert
2 DF Wales WAL Alicia Powe
9 DF Wales WAL Nieve Jenkins
5 DF Wales WAL Ellie Lake
19 DF Wales WAL Lucy Finch
4 DF Wales WAL Shaunna Jenkins
23 DF Wales WAL Jessica Williams
17 DF Wales WAL Monet Legall
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF Wales WAL Phoebe Ware
7 MF Wales WAL Kelly Adams
15 MF Wales WAL Gwen Horgan
14 MF Wales WAL Chloe Tiley
3 MF Wales WAL Sarah Adams
22 MF Wales WAL Nia Rees
11 MF Wales WAL Katy Hosford
16 MF England ENG Emily Freeman
10 FW Wales WAL Chloe Chivers
40 FW Wales WAL Rachel Cullen
12 FW Wales WAL Stacey-John Davies

Honours

Adran Premier:

  • Champions (1): 2021-2022

Welsh Premier Women's League:

Record in UEFA Women's Champions League

Summary

Pld W D L GF GA Last season played
12 2 0 10 7 48 2022–23

By season

Season Round Opponent Home Away Agg
2010–11 Qualifying round Italy Bardolino 0–7[14] 3rd of 4[15]
Slovenia Krka 0–4[16]
Georgia (country) Baia Zugdidi 2–1[17]
2011–12 Qualifying round Ukraine Lehenda-ShVSM 0–2[18] 3rd of 4[19]
Cyprus Apollon Limassol 0–8[20]
Luxembourg Progrès Niederkorn 4–0[21]
2017–18 Qualifying round Scotland Hibernian 0–5[22] 4th of 4[23]
Romania Olimpia Cluj 0–3[24]
Ukraine Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv 0–9[25]
2020–21 Round 1 Cyprus Apollon Limassol 0–3[26]
2021–22 Round 1 Russia CSKA Moscow 1–4 (aet)[27]
2022–23 Round 1 Greece PAOK 0–2[28]

Coaching staff

Updated: August 15, 2022

Position Name
Head coach Wales Ceri Phillips
Assistant coach -
Assistant coach -
Goalkeeping coach -

References

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  2. ^ "Swans Ladies are Slovenia bound". Swansea City A.F.C. 22 June 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
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  9. ^ "Cardiff Met win FAW Women's Welsh Cup Final 2014". YouTube. 15 April 2014. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
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  11. ^ "She Kicks - News Section: Swans Exact Welsh Premier Cup Final Revenge". Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  12. ^ "PILCS Come From Behind to Claim League Cup - Welsh Premier League". www.wpl.cymru. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
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  20. ^ "Swansea City vs. Apollon Limassol - 13 August 2011 - Soccerway". syndication.soccerway.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  21. ^ "Progrès Niederkorn vs. Swansea City - 16 August 2011 - Soccerway". syndication.soccerway.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
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  24. ^ "Olimpia Cluj-Swansea - UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  25. ^ "Swansea-Kharkiv - UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  26. ^ "Report | Apollon Ladies 3 Swansea City Ladies 0 | Swansea".
  27. ^ "Report | WFC CSKA Moscow 4 Swansea City Ladies 1 | Swansea".
  28. ^ "Report | AC PAOK 2 Swansea City Ladies 0 | Swansea".

External links

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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea_City_Ladies_F.C.

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