Swansea City Women 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.
| Full name | Swansea City Women Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Swans | ||
| Founded | 2002 | ||
| Ground | Llandarcy Academy of Sport Neath, Wales | ||
| Capacity | 2,000 | ||
| Manager | Jamie Sherwood | ||
| League | Adran Premier | ||
| 2023–24 | Adran Premier, 2nd of 8 | ||
| Website | https://www.swanseacity.com/news?category=1578 | ||
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History
editFormed 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
editChampions League
editSwansea City were drawn against tournament hosts and Greek champions PAOK in the first round of the qualifying bracket.
Hosted by PAOK.
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 18 August | ||||||
 PAOK | 2 | |||||
| 21 August | ||||||
 Swansea City | 0 | |||||
| PAOK | 0 | |||||
| 18 August | ||||||
 Rangers | 4 | |||||
 Ferencváros | 1 | |||||
| Rangers | 3 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| 21 August | ||||||
| Swansea City | 0 | |||||
| Ferencváros | 7 | |||||
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
editCurrent squad
edit- As of 12 Oct 2024
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Honours
edit- Champions (1): 2021-2022
- Champions (5): 2009–10, 2010–11, 2016–17, 2019–20, 2020–21
- Welsh Women's Cup:
- Welsh Women's Premier League Cup:
- South Wales Women's League
- Champions: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12
- South Wales Women's League Cup
- Champions: 2007, 2008
Record in UEFA Women's Champions League
editSummary
edit| Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Last season played |
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| 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 48 | 2022–23 |
By season
edit| Season | Round | Opponent | Home | Away | Agg |
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| 2010–11 | Qualifying round |  Bardolino
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0–7[14] | 3rd of 4[15] | |
 Krka
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0–4[16] | ||||
 Baia Zugdidi
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2–1[17] | ||||
| 2011–12 | Qualifying round |  Lehenda-ShVSM
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0–2[18] | 3rd of 4[19] | |
 Apollon Limassol
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0–8[20] | ||||
 Progrès Niederkorn
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4–0[21] | ||||
| 2017–18 | Qualifying round | Hibernian
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0–5[22] | 4th of 4[23] | |
 Olimpia Cluj
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0–3[24] | ||||
| Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv
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0–9[25] | ||||
| 2020–21 | Round 1 | Apollon Limassol
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0–3[26] | ||
| 2021–22 | Round 1 |  CSKA Moscow
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1–4 (aet)[27] | ||
| 2022–23 | Round 1 | PAOK
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0–2[28] | ||
Coaching staff
editUpdated: August 15, 2022
| Position | Name |
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| Head coach |  Jamie Sherwood
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| Assistant coach | - |
| Assistant coach | - |
| Goalkeeping coach | - |
References
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- ^ "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.
- ^ "FAW Women's Cup final: Swans Ladies 2-2 Cardiff Met Ladies (4-5 on penalties)". 9 April 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ^ "She Kicks - News Section: Swans Exact Welsh Premier Cup Final Revenge". Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
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- ^ "Swansea City vs. Apollon Limassol - 13 August 2011 - Soccerway". syndication.soccerway.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ "Progrès Niederkorn vs. Swansea City - 16 August 2011 - Soccerway". syndication.soccerway.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ "Hibernian-Swansea - UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ "Summary - UEFA Women's Champions League - Europe - Results, fixtures, tables and news - Soccerway". syndication.soccerway.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ "Olimpia Cluj-Swansea - UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ "Swansea-Kharkiv - UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ "Report | Apollon Ladies 3 Swansea City Ladies 0 | Swansea".
- ^ "Report | WFC CSKA Moscow 4 Swansea City Ladies 1 | Swansea".
- ^ "Report | AC PAOK 2 Swansea City Ladies 0 | Swansea".