2014–15 Welsh Premier Women's League

Welsh Premier League (women)

Season	2014–15
Champions	Cardiff Met. Ladies (3rd title)
UEFA Women's Champions League	Cardiff Met. Ladies
Matches played	100
Goals scored	516 (5.16 per match)
Biggest home win	Cardiff Metropolitan 19–0 Newcastle Emlyn
Biggest away win	Aberystwyth Town 0–9 Cwmbran Celtic
Highest scoring	Cardiff Metropolitan 19–0 Newcastle Emlyn
← 2013–14 2015–16 →

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 were the defending champions and retained the title on goal difference over Swansea City.[1]

Lyndsey Davies from PILCS won the top scorer award for a second year in a row.[2]

Clubs

Wrexham

Hafren United

Aberystwyth Town

Swansea City

PILCS LFC

Newcastle Emlyn

Cardiff Met. & Cardiff City

Cwmbran Celtic

Prestatyn

Port Talbot Town

Llandudno Ladies

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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to Hafren United Ladies FC.[3] They however withdraw from the league before the start of the season.[4] Caernarfon had withdrawn from the league after the 2013/14 season, they were replaced by Aberystwyth Town.[5] Hafren United though also withdraw before the league starts, thus this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 Women	Cardiff	Leckwith Athletics Stadium
Cardiff Metropolitan Ladies	Cardiff	Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cyncoed Campus
PILCS Ladies	Pontypool
Cwmbran Celtic	Cwmbran
Hafren United Ladies	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

No team was relegated because Hafren United withdrew before the season.[2]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		CAM	SWA	PIL	CAC	POR	WRE	CWM	LLA	RHY	NEW	ABE
1	Cardiff Metropolitan	20	16	2	2	97	11	+86	50	Qualification to 2015–16 Champions League		—	0–1	5–0	0–0	2–0	5–0	4–0	8–0	6–0	19–0	10–0
2	Swansea City	20	16	2	2	73	16	+57	50			1–1	—	4–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	4–0	5–2	7–0	3–2	11–0
3	PILCS	20	14	1	5	69	35	+34	43			3–0	3–1	—	4–1	3–0	3–1	6–2	1–3	8–0	6–0	3–1
4	Cardiff City	20	13	3	4	60	24	+36	42			0–7	1–2	1–2	—	7–0	6–0	2–0	2–1	4–0	6–0	11–0
5	Port Talbot Town Ladies	20	9	3	8	36	31	+5	30			1–4	1–1	5–0	1–1	—	4–1	0–0	3–0	4–1	5–1	5–0
6	Wrexham	20	9	2	9	42	40	+2	29			1–3	0–3	4–3	0–2	1–0	—	3–3	2–1	5–1	5–0	9–0
7	Cwmbran Celtic	20	7	4	9	48	42	+6	25			1–4	2–3	3–3	1–3	2–0	0–0	—	2–0	1–3	7–0	7–1
8	Llandudno	20	8	1	11	31	45	−14	25			1–4	0–4	1–4	2–2	0–1	2–0	2–1	—	2–3	4–0	2–0
9	Rhyl & Prestatyn	20	6	0	14	23	74	−51	18			1–5	1–7	1–5	1–2	2–3	1–2	2–4	0–2	—	1–0	3–2
10	Newcastle Emlyn	20	3	0	17	24	92	−68	9			1–5	1–6	1–6	2–3	1–0	0–5	2–3	2–4	5–1	—	5–0
11	Aberystwyth Town	20	1	0	19	13	106	−93	3			0–5	0–6	1–5	1–5	2–3	1–3	0–9	1–2	0–1	3–1	—

Updated to match(es) played on 10 May 2015. Source: Welsh Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored

League Cup

← 2013–14 · 2015–16 →

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.[6] After Hafren United withdrew from the league, one team was drawn to have a bye in the quarter-finals.[7] 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.[8]

First round[9]
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[10]
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. "Cardiff Met Retain Welsh Premier Title". shekicks.net. 3 May 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
2. "Welsh Premier Awards and Cup Draw". shekicks.net. Archived from the original on 21 June 2015.
3. "Four new team names in Welsh Premier Women's league". BBC. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
4. "Hafren United Withdraw from WPWL". welshpremier.org. 1 September 2014. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
5. "Aberystwyth Replace Caernarfon in WPWL". welshpremier.co.uk. 19 August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
6. "Welsh Premier League Cup Draw". shekicks.net. 24 June 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014.
7. "Welsh Premier League Cup Quarter-finals". shekicks.net. 1 October 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
8. "PILCS pounce for Welsh Premier League Cup". shekicks.net. 28 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
9. "Welsh Premier League & non-League round-up". BBC Sport.
10. "Swansea City Ladies v Cardiff Metropolitan Ladies". welshpremier.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015.

External links

• welshpremier.com^[usurped]
• welsh-premier.com
• League at uefa.com