2025 League of Ireland Women's Premier Division

Premier Division

Season	2025
Dates	8 March 2025 – 12 October 2025
Champions	Athlone Town
Champions League	Athlone Town
Matches	132
Goals	465 (3.52 per match)
Top goalscorer	Kelly Brady (20 goals)
Biggest home win	Shelbourne 8–0 Sligo Rovers (30 August 2025)
Biggest away win	Waterford 0–7 Galway United (21 June 2025) Waterford 1–8 Shamrock Rovers (27 September 2025)
Highest scoring	Bohemians 2–7 Shelbourne (12 April 2025) Waterford 1–8 Shamrock Rovers (27 September 2025) Shamrock Rovers 5–4 Shelbourne (11 October 2025)
Longest winning run	9 matches Athlone Town Shelbourne
Longest unbeaten run	20 matches Athlone Town
Longest winless run	17 matches Cork City
Longest losing run	11 matches Waterford
Total attendance	34,468
Average attendance	261
← 2024 ' 2026 →

The 2025 Premier Division , also known as SSE Airtricity Women's Premier Division for sponsorship reasons, was the third edition of the top-tier women's football league in the Republic of Ireland since its restructure in 2022.

Athlone Town were defending champions, having won their first title in the 2024 season. ^[1]

The first matches of the 2025 season were played on 8 March 2025. The final matchday was played on 11 October 2025.

Teams

Twelve clubs participated in the 2025 season. This is an increase from the previous season as Waterford joined the league. ^[2]

Dublin

Athlone Town

Cork City

Galway United

Sligo Rovers

Treaty United

Wexford

Waterford

Dublin teams
Bohemians
DLR Waves
Peamount United
Shamrock Rovers
Shelbourne

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Locations of Women's Premier Division teams

Bohemians

DLR Waves

Peamount United

Shamrock Rovers

Shelbourne

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Locations of Dublin Women's Premier Division teams

Stadiums and locations

Club	Town / City	Stadium	Capacity
Athlone Town	Athlone	Athlone Town Stadium	5,000
Bohemians	Dublin (Phibsborough)	Dalymount Park	4,500
Cork City	Cork	Turner's Cross	7,485
DLR Waves	Dublin (Dún Laoghaire)	UCD Bowl	3,000
Galway United	Galway	Eamonn Deacy Park	5,000
Peamount United	Dublin (Newcastle)	Greenogue	N/A
Shamrock Rovers	Dublin (Tallaght)	Tallaght Stadium	10,500
Shelbourne	Dublin (Drumcondra)	Tolka Park	5,750
Sligo Rovers	Sligo	The Showgrounds	3,873
Treaty United	Limerick	Markets Field	4,500
Waterford	Waterford	RSC	5,160
Wexford	Crossabeg	Ferrycarrig Park	2,500

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Athlone Town	John Sullivan	Laurie Ryan [3]	Nike	Valeo Futbol
Bohemians	Alban Hysa	Rachael Kelly [4]	O'Neills	Dublin Bus
Cork City	Craig Robinson (Interim)	Ciara McNamara [5]	Rebel Army	Zeus Packaging
DLR Waves	Laura Heffernan	Jessica Gleeson [6]	Balon Direct	Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council
Galway United	Phil Trill	Lynsey McKey [7]	O'Neills	Comer Property Management
Peamount United	Emma Donohue Gary Seery	Chloe Moloney [8]	Uhlsport	IP Telecom
Shamrock Rovers	Stephanie Zambra (interim)	Áine O'Gorman [9]	Macron	Blake Brothers Food Service
Shelbourne	Eoin Wearen	Pearl Slattery [10]	O'Neills	Chadwicks
Sligo Rovers	Steve Feeney	Emma Hansberry [11]	Umbro	Avant Money
Treaty United	Dave Rooney (interim)	Jillian O'Toole [12]	O'Neills	Trade Electric Group
Waterford	Gary Hunt	Danielle Griffin [13]	Puma	Hess Sports Group
Wexford	Sean Byrne	Kylie Murphy [14]	Jako	Mac's Caleta de Fuste

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Treaty United	Dominic Foley [15]	Resigned	13 October 2024	Pre-season	Sean Russell [16]	15 October 2024
Wexford	Hugh Strong [17]	Sacked			Sean Byrne [18]	8 January 2025
Athlone Town	Ciarán Kilduff [19]	Resigned	19 October 2024		Colin Fortune [20]	26 November 2024
Peamount United	James O'Callaghan [21]		22 October 2024		Emma Donohue Gary Seery [22]	8 December 2024
Bohemians	Ken Kiernan [23]		15 November 2024		Alban Hysa [24]	23 November 2024
Cork City	Danny Murphy [25]	Sacked	17 December 2024		Frank Kelleher [26]	8 January 2025
Waterford	Inaugural				Gary Hunt [27]	20 January 2025
Shamrock Rovers	Collie O'Neill [28]	Resigned	24 July 2025	5th	Stephanie Zambra (interim) [29]	26 July 2025
Cork City	Frank Kelleher [30]		13 August 2025	12th	Craig Robinson (interim) [31]	13 August 2025
Athlone Town	Colin Fortune [32]		7 September 2025	1st	John Sullivan [note 1] [33] [34]	9 September 2025
Treaty United	Sean Russell [35]		29 September 2025	7th	Dave Rooney (interim) [36]	2 October 2025

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Athlone Town (C)	22	17	4	1	53	10	+43	55	Qualification for 2026–27 Champions League preliminary round
2	Shelbourne	22	16	0	6	70	25	+45	48
3	Galway United	22	14	3	5	54	28	+26	45
4	Wexford	22	13	2	7	40	28	+12	41
5	Shamrock Rovers	22	11	4	7	51	31	+20	37
6	Peamount United	22	11	3	8	40	26	+14	36
7	Bohemians	22	10	5	7	42	34	+8	35
8	Treaty United	22	10	3	9	34	41	−7	33
9	DLR Waves	22	5	3	14	25	57	−32	18
10	Sligo Rovers	22	3	3	16	18	60	−42	12
11	Waterford	22	4	0	18	20	67	−47	12
12	Cork City	22	2	2	18	18	58	−40	8

Source: LeagueOfIreland.ie
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	ATH	BOH	COR	DLR	GAL	PEA	SHA	SHE	SLI	TRE	WAT	WEX
Athlone Town		2–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	2–1	4–0	3–1	3–0	2–0
Bohemians	2–2		2–0	3–1	1–3	1–2	0–1	2–7	3–2	1–2	1–0	3–0
Cork City	0–4	0–2		1–1	2–4	0–2	1–2	0–2	4–0	1–3	4–2	0–4
DLR Waves	0–5	2–5	1–1		1–3	2–1	1–4	0–4	1–0	0–2	4–2	0–0
Galway United	0–3	2–1	5–0	5–1		1–1	3–2	2–1	4–2	1–3	3–0	1–1
Peamount United	1–0	3–3	2–0	3–2	1–2		1–1	1–4	4–1	4–1	5–0	1–2
Shamrock Rovers	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–1	1–2	0–1		5–4	0–0	4–1	7–1	2–3
Shelbourne	1–2	1–3	7–0	4–0	2–1	1–0	1–2		8–0	2–0	2–1	2–1
Sligo Rovers	0–4	0–0	2–0	2–3	1–3	1–0	1–4	1–3		2–2	0–2	0–3
Treaty United	1–1	1–1	3–2	1–0	2–1	0–6	1–2	1–3	3–0		2–0	1–4
Waterford	0–2	0–3	3–1	4–2	0–7	0–1	1–8	0–4	0–2	3–2		1–2
Wexford	0–2	1–3	3–0	4–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–6	5–1	0–1	2–0

Source: LeagueOfIreland.ie
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

To preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to 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 round 7, but then played between rounds 8 and 9, it will be added to the standings for round 8.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Athlone Town	2	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Shelbourne	8	5	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Galway United	1	1	4	3	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	5	3	3	3	3	3
Wexford	11	8	10	6	6	5	4	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4
Shamrock Rovers	5	4	1	5	5	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	7	8	8	6	5
Peamount United	3	7	7	9	9	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	7	8	7	6	5	6
Bohemians	6	9	6	8	10	10	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	6	6	7	7	6	6	5	7	7
Treaty United	4	2	5	4	3	4	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	5	4	5	5	7	8	8
DLR Waves	12	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	9	9	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Sligo Rovers	7	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	11	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Waterford	10	12	9	7	8	8	9	9	10	10	10	9	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Cork City	9	6	8	10	7	9	10	10	9	9	9	10	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

	Leader and qualification for 2026–27 Champions League preliminary round

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Top Scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals [37]
1	Kelly Brady	Athlone Town	20
2	Mackenzie Anthony	Shelbourne	16
3	Emma Doherty	Galway United	13
	Isabella Flocchini	Treaty United
5	Emily Corbet	Shamrock Rovers	12
	Kate Mooney	Shelbourne
6	Ellen Molloy	Wexford	11
8	Ellen Dolan	Peamount United	10
	Áine O'Gorman	Shamrock Rovers
10	Madison Gibson	Athlone Town	8
	Katie McCarn	Bohemians
	Kylie Murphy	Wexford

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Kate Mooney	Shelbourne	Sligo Rovers	3–1 (A)	21 June 2025	[38]
Emily Corbet	Shamrock Rovers	Waterford	7–1 (H)	29 July 2025	[39]
Katie McCarn	Bohemians	DLR Waves	5–2 (A)	2 August 2025	[40]
Mackenzie Anthony4	Shelbourne	Sligo Rovers	8–0 (H)	30 August 2025	[41]
Kelly Brady	Athlone Town	Cork City	4–0 (A)	1 October 2025	[42]
Kylie Murphy	Wexford		3–0 (H)	11 October 2025	[43]

Note:⁴ – player scored 4 goals

See also

• 2025 League of Ireland Premier Division
• 2025 League of Ireland First Division

Notes

1. Sullivan was initially named as interim head coach, before being appointed on a permanent basis on 10 October 2025.

References

1. "Athlone Town crowned SSE Airtricity Women's Premier Division Champions". League of Ireland. 2024-10-05. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
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3. "WPD preview - Athlone Town". League of Ireland . Retrieved 11 March 2025. Defending the SSE Airtricity Women's Premier Division crown won't be easy, especially with goalkeeper Katie Keane and captain Laurie Ryan.
4. "Captain Kelly and vice-captain Donnelly re-sign for Bohemians". Extratime. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
5. "WPD Preview: Peamount United vs City". Cork City W.F.C. Retrieved 2025-03-11. Frank has confirmed that Ciara McNamara, the captain in Frank's previous spell, will again wear the armband this season.
6. "Jess Gleeson Player Profile – DLR Waves". DLR Waves . Retrieved 2025-03-11. Jess Gleeson is our club captain...
7. Team, Media (2025-01-20). "Lynsey McKey is back for 2025". Galway United . Retrieved 2025-03-11. In February of 2023, Mckey signed with United and was announced as our first ever women's senior captain.
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28. "Collie O'Neill resigns". Shamrock Rovers . 24 July 2025. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
29. "Interim Appointment – Stephanie Zambra". Shamrock Rovers . 26 July 2025. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
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31. "Frank Kelleher Steps Down". Cork City FC Shop. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
32. "Statement on the Resignation of Manager Colin Fortune". Athlone Town . 7 September 2025. Retrieved 2025-09-08.
33. "Club Statement: Women's Team Update". Athlone Town . 9 September 2025. Retrieved 18 September 2025. We can confirm that John Sullivan will take interim charge of our Women's team for the remainder of the season, having previously worked with our Men's side. We wish him every success in this role.
34. "John Sullivan Signs New Contract". Athlone Town . 10 October 2025. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
35. "Treaty United Announces Departure of Women's Head Coach Sean Russell". Treaty United . 29 September 2025. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
36. Treaty United [@TreatyUnitedFC] (2 October 2025). "Treaty United can confirm that Dave Rooney will take charge of our final two games of the Women's Premier Division season.
    We can also confirm the departure of Craig Madigan and Niamh O'Byrne from the Senior Women's coaching staff. The club thanks them for their commitment and contributions during their time with the team" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
37. "2025 Women's National League Tables & Results & Stats | extratime.com - The Home of Irish Football - Extratime.com". www.extratime.com. Retrieved 2025-08-10.
38. "WPD Match Report: Rovers 1-3 Shelbourne – Sligo Rovers". 2025-06-21. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
39. Ferris, Macdara. "Shamrock Rovers run riot in superb start for Stephanie Zambra as Hoops interim head coach". extratime.com. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
40. Barry, Stephen (2 August 2025). "WLOI round-up: Shels go top after hard-earned win at Cork City". RTÉ . Katie McCarn helped herself to a hat-trick as Bohemians recorded a 5-2 victory away at DLR Waves.
41. Geraghty, Daryl (30 August 2025). "Shelbourne win big after Mackenzie Anthony's poker play". RTÉ . Retrieved 31 August 2025.
42. O'Connell, Dylan (2 October 2025). "Kelly Brady hat-trick seals Athlone's second straight title". RTÉ . Retrieved 2 October 2025.
43. Geraghty, Darryl (12 October 2025). "Athlone lift trophy as Peamount's Duggan bows out with six-goal thriller against Bohemians". RTÉ . Elsewhere, Kylie Murphy ended her Wexford career in style by scoring a hat-trick in a 3-0 win over bottom side Cork City at Ferrycarrig Park

External links

• Official website