Cardiff City
Full nameCardiff City Football Club
Nickname(s)The Bluebirds
GroundCardiff International Sports Stadium[1]
Capacity4,953 (seated: 2,553; standing: 2,400)
ManagerIain Darbyshire
LeagueAdran Premier
2022–23Adran Premier, 1st of 8
WebsiteClub website

Cardiff City FC Women is a women's football team based in Cardiff, Wales. It is the official Women's side of Cardiff City F.C.

The club won the Women's Welsh Premier League in 2012–13,[2] which qualified them for the 2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League. The team started in the qualifying round and lost all of its three matches.

History

Until the 2011–12 season the team played in the South Wales Women's League Division 1, where also the Southern Premier League teams played too.[3] The team only entered the Premier League when the league was expanded for 2012–13 and went truly national. In its first Premier League season the team won the title on goal difference after beating Wrexham Ladies 5–2.[4]

Cardiff City F.C. turned semi-professional in June 2023.

Current squad

This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (September 2023)
As of 20 September 2023

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 Wales WAL Ceryn Chamberlain
2 DF Wales WAL Lisa Owen
3 DF Wales WAL Ffion Price
4 DF Wales WAL Hannah Power
5 DF Wales WAL Siobhan Walsh (captain)
6 DF Wales WAL Megan Bowen
7 FW Wales WAL Rhianne Oakley
8 MF Wales WAL Seren Watkins
10 MF England ENG Kelly Walklett
11 FW Wales WAL Danielle Green
12 MF Wales WAL Kelly Adams
No. Pos. Nation Player
13 GK Wales WAL Amelia Forkings
14 FW Wales WAL Olivia Basham
15 FW Cayman Islands CAY Molly Kehoe
17 DF Wales WAL Hollie Smith
18 FW Wales WAL Mackenzie Olden
19 FW Wales WAL Maddison Lloyd
20 FW Wales WAL Mali Ackerman
21 DF Wales WAL Mikayla Cook
22 MF Wales WAL Emma Beynon
23 GK Wales WAL Anna Phelps
25 MF Wales WAL Tija Richardson
39 FW Wales WAL Eliza Collie



Titles

Record in UEFA Women's Champions League

Summary

Pld W D L GF GA Last season played
3 0 0 3 0 6 2013–14

By season

Season Round Opponent Home Away Agg
2013–14 Qualifying round Bosnia and Herzegovina SFK 2000 0–3[5] 4th of 4[6]
Bulgaria NSA Sofia 0–2[7]
Turkey Konak Belediyespor 0–1[8]

References

  1. ^ "Cardiff City FC Women Club Information - Welsh Premier Womens League". www.welshpremierwomensleague.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  2. ^ "WOMEN WIN WELSH PREMIER LEAGUE - News - Cardiff City". www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk.
  3. ^ "South Wales Womens Football League - Season Archive". www.leaguewebsite.com.
  4. ^ "Cardiff City Women win Womens Welsh Premier League title". BBC Sport. 19 May 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Sarajevo-Cardiff - UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  6. ^ "Summary - UEFA Women's Champions League - Europe - Results, fixtures, tables and news - Soccerway". syndication.soccerway.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  7. ^ "Cardiff-NSA - UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  8. ^ "Konak-Cardiff - UEFA Women's Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.

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