The 2020–21

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was the 20th season of the SWPL, the highest division of women's football in Scotland since

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. The league season was played with eight teams. Glasgow City were the defending champions, having won the last completed championship in

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

. The league was known as the '' Scottish Building Society Scottish Women's Premier League'' for sponsorship reasons. The previous season,

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, was interrupted by the

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and was subsequently declared null and void. Following this cancellation,

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reverted to the winter-season format last used in 2008–09. The new season started on 18 October 2020 and concluded on 4 July 2021. It had been agreed that there would be no relegation from SWPL 1, and that there would be 10 teams in the top division in 2021–22. The 2020–21 season was interrupted for more than three months by the pandemic; SWPL 1 played no games between January and March. Glasgow City won the championship by three points from Celtic, the runners-up. This was Glasgow City's 14th national league title in succession, the most in Scottish senior football history, and five fewer than the world record in women's football at the time, the 19 titles achieved by SFK of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Teams

Source:

League table

Positions by round

Results

Matches 1 to 14

Matches 15 to 21

Statistics

Scoring

Source:

Hat-tricks

References

External links

Official website
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Scottish Women's Premier League seasons

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