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Yahoo
17-07-2025
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Holders Rangers host Stirling Uni or St Johnstone
Sky Sports Cup holders Rangers will begin their defence at home to either University of Stirling or St Johnstone. It follows the draw for the first and second rounds of the Scottish Women's Premier League's knockout competition. Beaten finalists Hibernian, who pipped Glasgow City and Rangers to the league title on the final day of the season and who have lifted the League Cup a record seven times, are also at home to SWPL1 rivals Motherwell. Six-time winners City are away to SWPL2 champions Hamilton Academical, who continue to play at New Douglas Park despite a dispute that has led to the men's team moving to Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld. Ties will be played on or before Sunday, 5 October. Latest Scottish women's football news on BBC Smith joins Arsenal for world record £1m fee Celtic, who finished a disappointing fourth in the league after starting the season as reigning champions, visit relegated Spartans. Meanwhile, fifth-placed Heart of Midlothian host top-flight rivals Montrose. Rangers lifted the League Cup for a third time when thumping Hibs 5-0 in March and followed it by beating City in the Scottish Cup final. However, head coach Jo Potter left for Crystal Palace after missing out on the league title on the final day for a second consecutive season and Rangers have yet to appoint a successor. Rangers will learn their opponents when the Stirling students, who have been promoted to SWPL2, face second-tier rivals St Johnstone on or before 7 September. Sky Sports Cup draw First round (on or before Sunday, 7 September) Boroughmuir Thistle v Gartcairn Dundee United v Kilmarnock Livingston v East Fife University of Stirling v St Johnstone Second round (on or before Sunday, 5 October) Aberdeen v Dundee United or Kilmarnock Boroughmuir Thistle or Gartcairn v Queen's Park Hamilton Academical v Glasgow City Heart of Midlothian v Montrose Hibernian v Motherwell Partick Thistle v Livingston or East Fife Rangers v University of Stirling or St Johnstone Spartans v Celtic Get the latest WSL news on our dedicated page
BBC News
28-06-2025
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SWPL transfer round-up: Two leave Hearts as Dons and Accies add two
Hearts have confirmed that Northern Ireland international Kerry Beattie has left the club, while defender Jess Broadrick has re-joined and Broadrick spent the second half of the 2024-25 season on loan at Balmoral, with the latter now re-signing for the club she broke through at. The Dons have already confirmed the loan signing of Australian full-back Emma Ilijoski, who joins from Hearts on another temporary Hamilton Accies have signed Sarah Gibb from Lanarkshire rivals Motherwell, as well as former Celtic midfielder Lucy Barclay after her departure from Parkhead. She is a recent Scotland under-19 was one of four players released by Motherwell, including Emily Mutch, Rachel Todd and Eve Donald. Goalkeeper Mutch recently picked up two Scotland under-23 caps in friendlies against Partick Thistle midfielder Lucy Sinclair has undergone surgery on an injured ACL. The 22-year-old will miss a large chunk of next season.
BBC News
25-06-2025
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Champions Hibs open SWPL season against Aberdeen
Champions Hibernian start the defence of their Scottish Women's Premier League title at home to Aberdeen on Sunday, 17 top flight reverts to 10 teams for this coming season, changing from a 12-team Glasgow City are at home to Motherwell, while Rangers, who were pipped to the title on the final day of the season and are seeking a new head coach after Jo Potter's switch to Crystal Palace, travel to Montrose, who avoided relegation on the final day of the who were league winners in season 2023-24 but finished fourth last term, are away to Heart of Midlothian, who were champions Hamilton Academical entertain Partick Thistle. Thistle have appointed David Elliott as head coach after Brian Graham left following almost five years in the will be playing their home games at New Douglas Park despite Hamilton Academical men moving to Cumbernauld amid a dispute with the stadium five opening SWPL1 fixtures will be played on 17 August, with kick-off times still to be determined after discussions with television partners, including BBC Scotland and BBC 18 fixtures, the SWPL will split into a top six and a bottom four, with the clubs playing each other twice, once at home, once side finishing 10th will be relegated to SWPL2, while the side finishing ninth will take part in a one-off play-off final against the side coming through promotion play-offs in the second to Hibs and Glasgow's Champions League commitments, their meeting scheduled for 31 August will be moved to 1 is a derby fest on Sunday, 7 September, with the first Old Firm, Edinburgh and Lanarkshire derbies of the face Rangers at New Douglas Park, Motherwell take on Hamilton, albeit at K-Park in East Kilbride, and it is also Hearts against will be a winter break, with the final fixtures of 2025 on Sunday, 21 December and action resuming on Sunday, 18 January. SWPL opening weekend fixtures Sunday, 17 AugustGlasgow City v MotherwellHamilton Academical v Partick ThistleHeart of Midlothian v CelticHibernian v AberdeenMontrose v Rangers
BBC News
19-05-2025
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'Many people just won't realise how much of an accomplishment this is'
We asked you for your views following Hibernian's title-winning heroics at what some of you had to say:George: Brilliant, just brilliant. Such a gutsy performance, aligned with loads of skill, across the Sunshine on Leith during the summer. Come back refreshed and take all you have into the Champions Well done Hibs, an amazing achievement. The feel good factor is alive and kicking at I thought that was it for the rest of Scottish women's football when Celtic and Rangers went professional in 2020. How pleased I am to be proved wrong. Well done to all involved at Hibs, an absolutely phenomenal performance from our Hibee: Awesome achievement for Hibs. Many people just won't realise how much of an accomplishment this is. Congratulations, Hibees!Alan: Well what an end of season for Hibs women, going one better than the men's team and winning the league. Thoroughly deserved and Grant Scott take a bow - what management throughout the season. This team epitomises what a team can do when they truly are a team together! Fantastic advertisement for the women's game in Scotland. Think I can hear 'Sunshine on Leith' all the way down here in Llangollen!
BBC News
19-05-2025
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Rangers 0-1 Hibernian: What Scott said
Hibernian head coach Grant Scott: "I think the group of players we've got, we've pushed them to the absolute limit. There's some broken bodies out there and some in the dugout, in the stands. "I think for us in this kind of modern era of Scottish women's football, that's a massive achievement."We'll digest it. We've got a lot of work to do now for the new season and I'm going to demand that these girls look for more. I think it's just the start for us, hopefully."There was certainly a point, I think, before December, where we let ourselves down in a couple of games and we kind of felt the external world was almost waiting for us to trip."A lot of the players talk about going away to Rangers at Broadwood at the back end of December and having a great performance and a great result as a kind of turning point."Personally, I didn't feel it but I thought what it did was it made everyone outside of us as a group take notice a little bit."We had to back it up in January when we played Glasgow City and then Celtic and the players did that and that, for me, compounded what I thought we could be."But there's no easy games in that post-split, I think our record's good and the players thoroughly deserve their spot at the top now."I think what you're seeing now is a Hibs team that has gone through that transformation - a couple of years behind everyone else - and now having had a couple of years almost of full-backing, full-time nature of the players being in the building four or five times a week, all the resources that have been put behind them has given them that platform to compete. "I think when you get a good group, sometimes it's good choices, sometimes by luck but I think the group have really gelled this season and there's a belief in them and I hope they keep that going."
