Fixtures have been printed for the 2024/25 Scottish Ladies’s Championship and League One, which is able to see newly promoted Stenhousemuir and Falkirk face one another within the opening day of Scotland’s third tier.
In what’s shaping as much as be essentially the most aggressive and high-profile Championship season but, Stenny will welcome their native rivals Falkirk on Sunday 11th August, in a fixture that offered good crowds and lots thrills in League One during the last two seasons.
The third season of the 2 competitions as nationwide leagues will see the new-look Championship develop to 12 groups, welcoming League One champions Stenhousemuir, Falkirk and Forfar Farmington from the decrease league, and Stirling College and Glasgow Ladies from SWPL2.
League One is bolstered by Armadale Thistle, Dunipace, Inverurie Locos and Kilwinning, who have been promoted from the regional leagues, with SWFL West champions Dunipace welcoming SWFL North winners Inverurie Locos to Denny on the opening day.
The inaugural 2022/23 season noticed Livingston promoted to SWPL2 as winners of the Championship, whereas final season each double winners Rossvale and runners-up Ayr United gained promotion to SWPL2. Stenhousemuir lifted the 2023/24 League One trophy at Meadowbank, after a nail-biting three-way title contest that went right down to the ultimate day.
All fixtures for the nationwide leagues are printed on the SWF web site HERE
Opening day fixtures:
Championship
Dryburgh Athletic vs Westdyke
East Fife vs Stirling College
Stenhousemuir v Falkirk
Forfar Farmington v Renfrew Girls
Glasgow Ladies v Morton
Hutchison Vale v Inverness Caledonian Thistle
League One
Armadale Thistle v St Mirren
Bonnyrigg Rose v Queen of the South
Dundee West v Kilwinning
Dunipace v Inverurie Locos
Edinburgh Caledonia v Giffnock Soccer Centre
(With 11 groups, Airdrie Girls are the primary workforce to sit down out on day one)