Full name | Glasgow City Football Club | ||
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Founded | 1998 | ||
Ground | Petershill Park, Springburn, Glasgow | ||
Capacity | 1,000 (500 seated) | ||
Chairperson | Carol Anne Stewart | ||
Club manager | Laura Montgomery | ||
Head Coach | Leanne Ross | ||
League | SWPL 1 | ||
2023–24 | SWPL 1, 3rd of 12 | ||
Website | http://www.glasgowcityfc.co.uk | ||
Glasgow City Football Club is a professional women's football team based in Glasgow that plays in SWPL 1, the top division of women's football in Scotland and also the higher of two levels of the Scottish Women's Premier League. The club has competed in the UEFA Women's Cup and UEFA Women's Champions League. They also have a reserve team and youth teams.
Glasgow City has won the most Premier League titles and the most Scottish Cups in Scotland since 2000.
In 2016, Glasgow City won their tenth Scottish Women's Premier League title in a row. [1] However they lost their four-year monopoly on the domestic trophies with Hibernian L.F.C. winning the SWPL Cup and Scottish Cup. [2] By 2021, they had won 14 SWPL titles in a row. [3]
Glasgow City Football Club was formed in 1998 by Laura Montgomery and Carol Anne Stewart. [4] [5] They play in orange and black. [6] The club play their home matches at Petershill Park in the Springburn district in the north of Glasgow, although from 2014 to 2017 they played at the larger Excelsior Stadium in Airdrie, around 15 miles outside the city, due to issues with the artificial playing surface at Petershill. [7] For the 2020–21 season, with Petershill unavailable, they played at Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire. [8]
City completed a domestic clean sweep in 2012, winning the treble, [9] [10] and they completed a second consecutive domestic treble in 2013. [11] Between the seasons 2009 and 2018 inclusive, Glasgow City lost only three League matches, [12] [13] [14] and continued an unprecedented run of successive Scottish championships that began in 2007–08 [15] It was reported Glasgow City had held talks with the FA WSL in February 2013 about a possible move to an extended top flight in England. City cited football was not moving forward quickly enough in Scotland for women to match their ambition. [16] The FA shut the door on any potential move. [17] City general manager Laura Montgomery later reiterated the club's desire to play in the FA WSL. [18]
During the 2014 season, Glasgow City secured an eighth successive SWPL title [19] and third successive treble. [20] After a superb 5–4 aggregate win against FC Zurich, City became the first Scottish team to reach the UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-finals in November 2014. [21] After a 2–1 first leg defeat at FC Zurich, [22] City were 1–0 down at half time, with their keeper substituted due a suspected broken collar bone, in the second leg. Despite City replying with two early second half goals, Zurich made it 2–2. An 81st minute Jo Love strike leveled the tie, but with City heading out of the competition on away goals, Suzanne Lappin powered home a header a few minutes from time to send them through. [21] In the quarter-finals, Paris Saint-Germain proved too strong for City, with a 7–0 aggregate victory. [23]
City were seeded for the UEFA Women's Champions League in 2015–16, as they entered straight in to the round of 32, both for the very first time. [24] As the eighth seeds, the team faced Chelsea, [25] only to lose 4-0 on aggregate.
In July 2015, Eddie Wolecki stepped down as Glasgow City manager after four and a half years in charge, [26] with Scott Booth announced as his replacement. [27]
City reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the second time in 2019–20; they were the last independent women's football club to achieve this. In the 2020–21 Scottish Women's Premier League, they won their fourteenth title in succession. [15] Following the departure of Scott Booth in summer 2021 to take head coach role at Birmingham City W.F.C., Grant Scott was appointed as interim head coach until Eileen Gleeson was freed from her commitments as assistant coach with Republic of Ireland women's national team and could take up post as head coach in November 2021.
Glasgow City has participated in several seasons of UEFA competitions; reaching the second qualifying round of the Women's Cup (last 16) in the 2008–09 season. In the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League they won their qualifying group and moved on to the round of 32. They then defeated Icelandic team Valur to become the first Scottish side to reach the round of 16 of the Champions League. [51] The Round of 16 ended in "humiliating" fashion for Glasgow City, where against German champions Turbine Potsdam, they lost the tie 17–0 on aggregate. [52] At the time, the 10–0 first leg defeat in Potsdam was the only time any team in the knockout stages of the Champions League has been beaten by double figures. In 2013–14 they reached the round of 16 again, losing 2–6 against Arsenal on aggregate (the unwanted records from the Potsdam tie were eclipsed that season by Wolfsburg who won their round of 32 tie 13–0 and 14–0 for a 27–0 aggregate).
In 2014–15 they became the first Scottish team to advance to the quarterfinals, [53] being eliminated by Paris Saint-Germain, and achieved the feat again in 2019–20 but lost 9–1 to Wolfsburg (twice previous winners and runners-up twice more) in a single-game tie played in San Sebastián due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. [54]
Season | Competition | Round | Opposition | Score | ||
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First Leg | Second Leg | Aggregate | ||||
2005–06 | UEFA Women's Cup | First Qualifying Round | Athletic Bilbao | 2–6 | 4th | |
SV Saestum | 0–7 | |||||
KFC Rapide Wezemaal | 1–5 | |||||
2008–09 | UEFA Women's Cup | First Qualifying Round | AZ | 1–1 | 1st | |
ŽFK Mašinac Niš | 4–0 | |||||
Narta Chişinău | 11–0 | |||||
Second Qualifying Round | Røa IL | 1–6 | 4th | |||
Zvezda 2005 Perm | 0–1 | |||||
1. FFC Frankfurt | 1–3 | |||||
2009–10 | UEFA Women's Champions League | Qualifying Round | Bayern Munich | 2–5 | 2nd | |
Gintra Universitetas | 2–0 | |||||
Norchi Dinamoeli | 9–0 | |||||
2010–11 | UEFA Women's Champions League | Qualifying Round | Crusaders Newtownabbey Strikers | 8–0 | 2nd | |
Slovan Bratislava | 4–0 | |||||
Duisburg | 0–4 | |||||
2011–12 | UEFA Women's Champions League | Qualifying Round | Spartak Subotica | 4–0 | 1st | |
Mosta | 8–0 | |||||
KÍ Klaksvík | 5–0 | |||||
Round of 32 | Valur | 1–1 | 3–0 | 4–1 | ||
Round of 16 | Turbine Potsdam | 0–10 | 0–7 | 0–17 | ||
2012–13 | UEFA Women's Champions League | Qualifying Round | ŽNK Osijek | 3–2 | 1st | |
FC Noroc | 11–0 | |||||
PK-35 Vantaa | 1–1 | |||||
Round of 32 | Fortuna Hjørring | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | ||
2013–14 | UEFA Women's Champions League | Qualifying Round | Osijek | 7–0 | 1st | |
Birkirkara | 9–0 | |||||
FC Twente | 2–0 | |||||
Round of 32 | Standard Liège | 2–2 | 3–1 | 5–3 | ||
Round of 16 | Arsenal | 0–3 | 2–3 | 2–6 | ||
2014–15 | UEFA Women's Champions League | Qualifying Round | Union Nové Zámky | 5–0 | 1st | |
Glentoran | 1–0 | |||||
Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv | 4–0 | |||||
Round of 32 | Medyk Konin | 0–2 | 3–0 ( a.e.t. ) | 3–2 | ||
Round of 16 | Zürich | 1–2 | 4–2 | 5–4 | ||
Quarterfinals | Paris Saint-Germain | 0–2 | 0–5 | 0–7 | ||
2015–16 | UEFA Women's Champions League | Round of 32 | Chelsea | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–4 |
2016–17 | UEFA Women's Champions League | Round of 32 | Eskilstuna United DFF | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 |
2017–18 | UEFA Women's Champions League | Round of 32 | BIIK Kazygurt | 0–3 | 4–1 | 4–4 (lost on away goals) |
2018–19 | UEFA Women's Champions League | Qualifying Round | Anderlecht | 1–2 | 1st | |
Martve | 7–0 | |||||
Górnik Łęczna | 2–0 | |||||
Round of 32 | Barcelona FA | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | ||
Round of 16 | Barcelona | 0–5 | 0–3 | 0–8 [55] | ||
2019–20 | UEFA Women's Champions League | Round of 32 | Chertanovo Moscow | 1–0 | 4–1 | 5–1 |
Round of 16 | Brøndby | 2–0 | 0–2 ( a.e.t. ) | 2–2 (won on penalties) | ||
Quarter-Finals | Wolfsburg | 1–9 [54] | 1–9 | |||
2020–21 | UEFA Women's Champions League | Qualifying Rounds | Peamount United | 0–0 ( a.e.t. ) (won on penalties) | ||
Valur | 1–1 ( a.e.t. ) (won on penalties) | |||||
Round of 32 | Sparta Prague | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–3 | ||
2021–22 | UEFA Women's Champions League | QR1 semi-final | Birkirkara | 3–0 | ||
QR1 final | BIIK Kazygurt | 1–0 | ||||
QR2 | Servette Chênois | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 | ||
2022–23 | UEFA Women's Champions League | QR1 semi-final | Roma | 1–3 | ||
QR1 Third Place Play-Off | Servette | 0–1 | ||||
2023–24 | UEFA Women's Champions League | QR1 semi-final | Shelbourne | 2–0 | ||
QR1 Final | Gintra | 3–0 | ||||
QR2 | Brann | 0–4 | 0–2 | 0–6 | ||
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Job title | Name | Notes |
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Chief Executive Officer | Laura Montgomery | Co-founder of the club and former player/captain |
Chairperson & Foundation Head of Operations | Carol Anne Stewart | Co-founder of the club and former player |
Academy Manager | Sarah Crilly | Former player (2013-16) |
Head of Recruitment/Scouting | Peter Caulfield | Former manager |
Head of Media & Content | Callum Patterson |
Job title | Name |
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Head Coach | Leanne Ross |
Coach | Keiron McAneny |
Head of Sports Science | Andy White |
Head of Physiotherapy | Louise Duncan |
Sports Therapists | Damien McCoy |
Doctor | Alice Soutar |
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