Newry City Ladies F.C.

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Newry City Ladies F.C.
Full nameNewry City Ladies Football Club
Founded2011
Ground The Showgrounds, Newry
League Women's Premier League
2014-151st
Website Club website

Newry City Ladies Football Club is a women's association football club based in Newry, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. They were founded in 2011 and re-founded in 2012. They are currently affiliated to Newry City A.F.C. men's team and play at The Showgrounds. [1]

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History

Leagues

Newry City Ladies were founded in 2011 as part of Newry City F.C. and were entered into NIWFA division 4. [2] They were promoted into Division 3 after a successful debut season and again were promoted into Division 2 after defeating PSNI in the Division 3 final. [3] Despite this success, Newry City F.C. were wound up after a high court petition and the majority of its teams including Newry City Ladies were dissolved. [4] However Newry City Ladies affiliated themselves with Newry City's phoenix club, Newry City A.F.C. [5] This meant that were able to continue playing in the NIWFA Leagues but retained the original Newry City crest instead of adopting the one of Newry City A.F.C. [6]

Newry City Ladies continued their rise through the NIWFA leagues, eventually being promoted to the Women's Premier League in 2014. [7] In their debut season in the Women's Premier League, they won the title on the last day by defeating Mid-Ulster Ladies and finished ahead of Linfield Ladies. They also earned qualification to the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time. [8] They also became the first team since Lisburn Distillery Predators in 2001 to have won the title aside of Belfast affiliated Crusaders Newtownabbey Strikers and Glentoran Belfast United. [9]

After the 2017 season they withdrew from the Premiership and went for the second level Championship instead. [10]

Cups

Newry City Ladies have also competed in the IFA Women's Challenge Cup. In 2014 they reached the final. The time of the final was moved to a bank holiday Monday afternoon which Newry protested as a number of their squad were work-tied in the afternoon and requested a move to the evening. [11] At Clandeboye Park, Linfield Ladies defeated Newry City Ladies on penalties. [12]

Honours

Winners (1): 2015
Winners (1): 2014

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