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Swansea City Ladies Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed Merched Dinas Abertawe) is a women's football club based in Swansea, Wales, currently playing in the Adran Premier, the top level of female competition in Wales. The team have been crowned champions in the past three seasons (2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-2022).

Swansea City

Full name	Swansea City Ladies Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Swans
Founded	2002
Ground	Llandarcy Academy of Sport Neath, Wales
Capacity	2,000
Manager	Ceri Phillips
League	Adran Premier
2021–22	1st - Champions
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

Formed in 2002, the team were members of the inaugural Welsh Premier Women's League in 2009/10 and came top of the Southern Conference, winning all six of their matches.

This set up a meeting with Northern winners, Caernarfon Town Ladies, with the winner clinching the title and becoming Wales' representatives in the UEFA Women's Champions League.

They beat the Canaries 4–0 at Haverfordwest to qualify for Europe for the very first time.[1] For the first time Swansea qualified to UEFA competitions in 2010 after winning the Welsh Premier League. As Wales is not in the top leagues by the UEFA coefficient for women, the team had to go through the qualifying stage of the UEFA Women's Champions League. Swansea City were drawn out in Group 5 and paired with ŽNK Krka (Slovenia) – who hosted the mini group – top seeds CF Bardolino Verona (Italy) and FC Baia Zugdidi (Georgia).[2] Swansea achieved one win in its group, beating Baia Zugdidi 2–1 and ended the group on place 3 of 4, thus failing to move on to the knockout stages.

They defended their title in 2011 again against Caernarfon with a 3–1 final win, thus would participate in the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League.

19 April 2015 Swansea Beat Cardiff City Women's 4–2 in the FAW Women's Cup.

On 28 April 2016, Swansea beat PILCS in the Welsh Premier Women's League Cup 4–0.

In the 2016/2017 they lost the first game of the season in a thrilling 5–4 contest at home to Abergavenny. They then went on to remain unbeaten the whole season, winning the league comfortably, and crowned champions after a 4–0 win against Cyncoed. Setting the girls up for a return to Europe. The girls headed to Cluj, Romania, where they played Hibernian, Olimpia Cluj and Zhytlobud-2.

Returning home after Champions League, the women went on to secure second in the league after a tough campaign. They did win the FAW Cup, 2–1 with goals coming from Jodie Passmore and Katy Hosford to beat Cardiff City at the Cardiff City Stadium, bring the FAW cup home to Liberty Stadium in Swansea.

2022-2023

Champions League

Swansea City were drawn against tournament hosts and Greek champions PAOK in the first round of the qualifying bracket. Hosted by PAOK.

	Semi-finals				Final
	18 August
	PAOK	2
					21 August
	Swansea City	0
					PAOK	0
	18 August
					Rangers	4
	Ferencváros	1
	Rangers	3
					Third place
					21 August
					Swansea City	0
					Ferencváros	7

Despite a valiant effort, Swansea lost 2-0 against PAOK to bow out of the 2022–23 UEFA Women's Champions League in the First Round of Qualifying.

Players

Current squad

As of 16 August 2022.

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  WAL Claire Skinner 24 GK  WAL Chelsea Herbert 2 DF  WAL Alicia Powe (captain) 9 DF  WAL Nieve Jenkins 5 DF  WAL Ellie Lake 19 DF  WAL Lucy Finch 4 DF  WAL Shaunna Jenkins 23 DF  WAL Jessica Williams 17 DF  WAL Monet Legall

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  WAL Phoebe Ware 7 MF  WAL Kelly Adams 15 MF  WAL Gwen Horgan 6 MF  WAL Emma Beynon 14 MF  WAL Chloe Tiley 3 MF  WAL Sarah Adams 22 MF  WAL Nia Rees 11 MF  WAL Katy Hosford 16 MF  WAL Emily Freeman — FW  WAL Chloe Chivers — FW  WAL Karmyn Carter 12 FW  WAL Stacey-John Davies

Honours

Adran Premier:

• Champions (1): 2021-2022

Welsh Premier Women's League:

• Champions (5): 2009–10, 2010–11, 2016–17, 2019-20, 2020-21
  • Runners-up: 2014–15,[3] 2015–16,[4] 2017–18,[5] 2018–19[6]
• Welsh Women's Cup:
  • Champions (3): 2011, 2015,[7] 2018[8]
  • Runners-up: 2014,[9] 2017[10]
• Welsh Women's Premier League Cup:
  • Champions (1): 2016[11]
  • Runners-up: 2015,[12] 2019[13]
• South Wales Women's League
  • Champions: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12
• South Wales Women's League Cup
  • Champions: 2007, 2008

Record in UEFA Women's Champions League

Summary

Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Last season played
12	2	0	10	7	48	2022–3

By season

Season	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Agg
2010–11	Qualifying round	Bardolino	0–7[14]		3rd of 4[15]
		Krka	0–4[16]
		Baia Zugdidi	2–1[17]
2011–12	Qualifying round	Lehenda-ShVSM	0–2[18]		3rd of 4[19]
		Apollon Limassol	0–8[20]
		Progrès Niederkorn	4–0[21]
2017–18	Qualifying round	Hibernian	0–5[22]		4th of 4[23]
		Olimpia Cluj	0–3[24]
		Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv	0–9[25]
2020–21	Round 1	Apollon Limassol	0–3[26]
2021–22	Round 1	CSKA Moscow	1–4 (aet)[27]
2022–23	Round 1	PAOK	0–2[28]

Coaching staff

Updated: August 15th 2022

Position	Name
Head Coach	Ceri Phillips
Assistant Coach	-
Assistant Coach	-
Goalkeeping Coach	-

References

External links

• Team's website
• Club at uefa.com

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