The regional Scottish Ladies’s Soccer League (SWFL) is to broaden to 5 leagues from 2024/25 to accommodate new groups arising throughout Scotland.

The fifth tier of ladies’s soccer will now comprise of SWFL North, Central, East and West leagues of ten groups every, and 9 groups contesting SWFL South.

The growth to 49 groups comes solely a 12 months after the leagues have been expanded from three to 4 and moved into the Scottish Ladies’s Soccer pyramid, which exhibits the exceptional fee of development within the aggressive ladies’s recreation in Scotland.

Within the season finale, the 5 winners will be part of the second-bottom aspect ending in SWF League One in play-offs, with three areas within the nationwide leagues for the next season up for grabs.

Commenting forward of the brand new season, SWF CEO Aileen Campbell stated: “The expansion in ladies’s soccer is nothing lower than astonishing, making our regional SWFL extra thrilling than ever because it provides up new alternatives for girls and women throughout Scotland to be concerned in structured, aggressive soccer.

“It’s just a few brief years because the present SWFL was three leagues with no development to nationwide soccer for the very best and most sustainable golf equipment, however annually new groups emerge with new expertise, new ambitions and new tales rooted of their communities. And we will see from the massive crowds final season at locations like East Finish Park and Gayfield that we’re reaching new audiences too, as extra folks have interaction with the distinctive recreation and matchday expertise ladies’s soccer offers.

“The truth that we now have needed to introduce a Central league, with groups from West Fife to the East finish of Glasgow, exhibits that ladies’s soccer is just set to develop even additional. 2024/25 would be the SWFL’s largest season but, and we will’t wait to observe the tales unfold. Good luck to all 49 groups.”

New groups becoming a member of embrace Blairgowrie & Rattray, Gretna 2008, Newton Stewart, Danderhall Miners, Carron Huskies, Cambusdoon, Benburb and St Anthony’s, whereas Bayside make a return to senior ladies’s soccer. Glasgow Women and Giffnock SC are to launch growth sides. With Aberdeen FC taking full management of their ladies’s SWPL crew, Aberdeen Women will relaunch a brand new crew in SWFL North, becoming a member of Ross County who’ve developed a senior aspect by the ScottishPower Highlands and Islands league.

On the finish of the season, the bottom-placed aspect in SWF League One will likely be relegated into their native regional SWFL, with the second backside coming into the play-off draw with the 5 SWFL winners. Improvement sides of senior groups elsewhere within the senior pyramid stay ineligible for promotion, so if one wins their respective division the play-off place will likely be supplied to the runner-up.

The groups will start the season taking part in SWFL Cup fixtures on 11 August, the place every league is break up into two teams of 5. League video games will start following the group levels on the 29 September.



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