2014–15 Welsh Premier League (women)

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

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

PILCS LFC
Newcastle Emlyn
Cardiff Met. & Cardiff City
Cwmbran Celtic
Prestatyn
Port Talbot Town
Llandudno Ladies
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to Hafren United Ladies FC.[3] They however withdraw from the league before the start of the season.[4] Caernarfon had withdrawn from the league after the 2013/14 season, they were replaced by Aberystwyth Town.[5] Hafren United though also withdraw before the league starts, thus this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.[6]

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 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

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.[7] After Hafren United withdrew from the league, one team was drawn to have a bye in the quarter-finals.[8] 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.[9]

First round[10]
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[11]
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

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