Bohemian F.C. Women

Full name	Bohemian Football Club Women
Nickname(s)	Bohs The Gypsies
Founded	2020
Ground	Dalymount Park, Phibsborough
Capacity	3,640
Manager	Sean Byrne
League	Women's National League[1]
2023	6th
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Bohemian Football Club Women (Irish: Cumann Peile Bóithéamaigh na mBan), more commonly referred to as Bohemians or Bohs, is an Irish association football club based in Dublin. In February 2020 the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) announced the formation of the club as an expansion team for the upcoming 2020 Women's National League season. It is the women's section of Bohemian FC. The senior team plays in the Women's National League while a junior team competes at Women's Under 17 National League and Women's Under 19 National League level.

History

On 27 November 2018 Bohemians were accepted into the Under-17 Women's National League, beginning with the 2019 season. Their aim was to grow the number of girls and women members in the club and eventually compete in the Women's National League.^[2] The historic first game in the Under-17 Women's National League for Bohemians was played on 13 April 2019 against Cork City and ended in 0–2 defeat.^{[citation needed]}

Just one year after being accepted to compete in the Under-17 Women's National League, Bohemians were accepted to the Women's National League on 18 February 2020.^[3] The first match was originally scheduled for 15 March 2020, however, the team was made to wait until 8 August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland which delayed the start of the season. The game ended in a 4–1 defeat by Wexford Youth. Chloe Darby scored the consolation goal and wrote herself into the history books as Bohemians' first-ever goalscorer.^[4]

Following a series of narrow defeats, Bohemians' inexperienced side finished bottom of the nine-team table in a truncated 2020 WNL season.^[5] In the off-season the club launched a third team to compete in the new Under-19 Women's National League and announced plans to pay first team players' expenses.^[6] After finishing sixth in the 2021 WNL season, the club announced that they would play all their 2022 home fixtures at Dalymount Park, instead of at the Oscar Traynor Centre where they had been based previously.^[7]

Players

Current squad

As of 19 March 2022.^[8]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IRL Courtney Maguire 2 DF  IRL Annemarie Byrne 3 DF  IRL Katie Burdis 5 DF  IRL Isobel Finnegan 6 MF  IRL Lisa Murphy 7 MF  IRL Kira Bates-Crosbie 8 MF  IRL Ciara Maher 9 FW  IRL Erica Burke 10 MF  IRL Chloe Darby 11 FW  IRL Abbie Brophy

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 FW  IRL Aoife Robinson 13 FW  IRL Sinéad Taylor (captain) 14 MF  IRL Hannah Tobin-Jones 15 DF  IRL Fiona Ryan 17 DF  IRL Katie Lovely 18 FW  IRL Bronagh Kane 19 DF  IRL Yvonne Hedigan 20 GK  IRL Rachael Kelly 21 FW  IRL Izzy Chambers 22 FW  IRL Lara Phipps 23 GK  IRL Sadhbh Moran TBA MF  IRL Sarah Rowe

Player of the Year

Year Winner 2021 Erica Burke

Management team

As of 27 March 2021

Position	Staff
Senior Manager/Coach	Sean Byrne
Senior Assistant manager/Goalkeeping coach	Pat Trehy
Assistant coach	Derek O'Neill
Strength & Conditioning coach	Dave O'Brien
Physio	Vincent Fitzpatrick

Source: Bohemian FC matchday programme

Records

• First goalscorer Chloe Darby (8 August 2020 vs Wexford Youths in the Women's National League)^[9]