Southampton Football Club is an English professional football club based in Southampton, Hampshire, that competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. Its home ground since 2001 has been St Mary's Stadium, before which it was based at The Dell. The team play in red and white shirts. They have been nicknamed "The Saints" because of the club's beginnings as a church football team at St Mary's Church. Southampton shares a long-standing South Coast derby rivalry with Portsmouth, in part due to geographic proximity and both cities' respective maritime histories.
The Women's FA Challenge Cup Competition is the top annual cup tournament for women's clubs in English football. Founded in 1970, it has been named the WFA Cup, FA Women's Cup, and now Women's FA Cup.
The FA Women's National League, formerly WFA National League and FA Women's Premier League (WPL), is a group of six football divisions which was run by the English Football Association until 2014 when it changed to become an FA branded league run by an independent elected management committee. Originally founded in 1991 by the Women's Football Association, the League included England's top division from 1991 to 2010.
The Women's National League Cup is an annual English football cup competition, founded in 1991 by the Women's Football Association (WFA). It was renamed the FA Women's Premier League Cup from 1994 to 2018.
Winchester City Football Club are an English football team based in Winchester, Hampshire and playing in the Southern Football League Division One South. Craig Davis is the current manager. The club motto is "Many in Men, One in Spirit".
Sholing Football Club is an English football club based in Sholing, Southampton, Hampshire. Formerly known as Vosper Thorneycroft FC and later VTFC the club changed its name in 2010 to Sholing FC. In 2013–14 they won both the FA Vase and the Wessex League Premier Division and have three times been runners up in the Wessex Premier, in 2007, 2009 and 2016. They are currently members of the Southern League Premier Division South. The club has twice won the Hampshire League, in 2001 and 2004. Sholing are also 8 times Southampton Senior Cup Winners.
Blackfield & Langley Football Club is a football club based in the village of Blackfield, near Southampton, England. Affiliated to the Hampshire Football Association, they are currently members of the Wessex League Premier Division and play at the Gang Warily Recreation Ground. Their local rivals are Fawley and Hythe & Dibden.
Charlton Athletic Women's Football Club (CAWFC) is a team founded in 1991 as Bromley Borough which plays in the Women's Championship. Also known as Croydon Women's F.C. and Charlton Athletic (2000–07), it was one of the most successful women's teams in England.
Doncaster Rovers Belles Ladies Football Club, previously Doncaster Belles, is an English women's football club that currently plays in the FA Women's National League Division One Midlands, the fourth tier of women's football in England. The club's administration is based at the Eco-Power Stadium in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, while home matches are played at nearby Thorne Colliery F.C.
Portsmouth Women, formerly known as "Portsmouth Ladies", is a semi professional women's football club for the south coast city of Portsmouth in Hampshire, England. The club currently plays in the FA Women's National League South. Their male counterparts are Portsmouth F.C.
Swindon Spitfires Football Club is an English football club from Swindon, Wiltshire. The women's first team are members of the South West Regional Women's Football League Division One East, train at New College, Swindon and play their home matches in nearby Watchfield, Vale of White Horse. Founded in 1967, they are one of the oldest extant women's and girls' football clubs in England. The club also runs a reserve team and several age-group teams in its youth system. In 2011 the club launched an associated men's team, who compete in the local Swindon & District League.
Southampton Saints Girls and Ladies Football Club, founded in 1979 as Red Star Southampton, was an English women's football club formerly affiliated with Southampton F.C.
The 1994–95 season of the FA Women's Premier League was the fourth season of national top-flight league women's football in England. It was the first season under FA Premier League branding after the WFA Women's National League was founded in 1991–92.
The Women's Football Association (WFA) was the governing body of women's football in England. It was formed in 1969 and was disbanded in 1993, as responsibility for overseeing all aspects of the game of women's football in England passed to The Football Association.
The 1991–92 WFA National League Premier Division was the inaugural season of nationalised women's league football in England. The Women's Football Association (WFA) obtained a grant from the Sports Council in order to launch the league, described by Jean Williams as "a crucial step in adopting the structures of the male game."
Kilmarnock FC Women is a women's football team based in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire that plays in the SWPL 2. Founded as Stewarton Thistle, the club is the oldest women's football team in Scotland and celebrated its 50th anniversary in July 2011.
Swindon Town Women Football Club are a women's association football club affiliated to Swindon Town F.C. They are members of the FA Women's National League Division One South West and play their home games at Fairford FC Cinder Lane.
Southampton Football Club Women is an English women's football club affiliated with Southampton FC. Based in Southampton, the club plays in the FA Women's Championship in the 2023–24 season after winning promotion from the FA Women's National League South in 2022.
The 1970–71 Women's Football Association Cup was the first edition of the WFA Cup, the national women's football knockout competition in England, which at the time was open to clubs from the rest of Great Britain. It was organised by the Women's Football Association (WFA).
