2014–15 Welsh Premier League (women)

Welsh Premier League (women)
Season 2014–15

The 2014–15 Welsh Premier League is the sixth season of the Women's Welsh Premier League, the top level women's football league in Wales.

Cardiff Met. Ladies are the defending champions.

Clubs

Hafren United
PILCS LFC
Newcastle Emlyn
Cardiff Met. & Cardiff City
Cwmbran Celtic
Prestatyn
Port Talbot Town
Llandudno Ladies
Locations of teams in the 2014–15 Premier League

For this season Llandudno Junction renamed to Llandudno Ladies and moved to 3G facility at Maesdu Park. Llanidloes Ladies was renamed to Hafren United Ladies FC.[1] They however withdraw from the league before the start of the season.[2] Caernarfon had withdrawn from the league ater the 2013/14 season, they were replaced by Aberystwyth Town.[3] Hafren United though also withdraw before the league starts, thus this season is played only with eleven teams.

Team City Ground
Aberystwyth Town Ladies Aberystwyth Park Avenue
Cardiff City F.C. Women Cardiff Leckwith Athletics Stadium
Cardiff Met. Ladies F.C. Cardiff Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cyncoed Campus
PILCS LFC Pontypool
Cwmbran Celtic Cwmbran
Hafren United Ladies FC Llanidloes Victoria Park
Llandudno Ladies Llandudno Junction Maesdu Park
Newcastle Emlyn Ladies Newcastle Emlyn Parc Emlyn
Port Talbot Town Ladies Port Talbot The Genquip Stadium
Rhyl & Prestatyn Ladies Prestatyn Rhyl FC's Corbett Sports Stadium
Swansea City Ladies Port Talbot Baglan Playing Fields
Wrexham Ladies Wrexham Colliers Road

Standings

Teams play 20 matches each. Swansea needs two high wins to overtake Cardiff Met., who have no more games to play.

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Cardiff Met. Ladies 20 16 2 2 97 11 +86 50 2015–16 Champions League
2 Swansea City Ladies 18 14 2 2 64 15 +49 44
3 Cardiff City 20 13 3 4 60 24 +36 42
4 PILCS LFC 19 13 1 5 66 34 +32 40
5 Port Talbot Town F.C. 20 9 3 8 36 31 +5 30
6 Wrexham Ladies 18 9 2 7 41 34 +7 29
7 Llandudno 20 8 1 11 31 45 −14 25
8 Cwmbran Celtic 19 6 4 9 41 41 0 22
9 Rhyl & Prestatyn Ladies 20 5 0 15 23 74 −51 15
10 Newcastle Emlyn Ladies 19 3 0 16 23 86 −63 9
11 Aberystwyth Town Ladies 19 1 0 18 12 99 −87 3

Source: shekicks.net


League Cup

For the second time a League Cup was played. In the first round four teams (Hafren United, Caernarfon Town, Cwmbran Celtic and Cardiff City FC) were drawn to receive a bye to the second round.[4] After Hafren United withdrew from the league, one team was drawn to have a bye in the quarter-finals.[5] Caernarfon were replaced by Aberystwyth Town after they withdrew last season. PILCS won the final 3–2 over Swansea City to win their first nationwide trophy.[6]

First round[7]
Newcastle Emlyn 2–3 Port Talbot Town 28 September 2014
PILCS 2–1 Wrexham FC
Rhyl & Prestatyn FC 0–10 Cardiff Metropolitan
Swansea City 2–0 Llandudno FC
Quarter-finals
Aberystwyth Town 0–2 Port Talbot Town 16 November 2014
Cardiff City FC 1–3 Swansea City 7 December 2014
Cwmbran Celtic w/o Cardiff Metropolitan Cwmbran withdraw[8]
PILCS – bye
Semi-finals
Port Talbot Town 3–4 PILCS 23 January 2015
Swansea City 2–0 Cardiff Metropolitan 25 January 2015
Final
PILCS 3–2 Swansea City 27 March 2015

References

  1. ↑ "Four new team names in Welsh Premier Women's league". BBC. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Hafren United Withdraw from WPWL". welshpremier.org. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Aberystwyth Replace Caernarfon in WPWL". welshpremier.co.uk. 19 August 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  4. ↑ http://www.shekicks.net/news/view/10188
  5. ↑ "Welsh Premier League Cup Quarter-finals". shekicks.net. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "PILCS pounce for Welsh Premier League Cup". shekicks.net. 28 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  7. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29391830
  8. ↑ http://www.welshpremier.co.uk/MatchReport.ink?matchid=66104

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