Bristol City Women's Football Club is a women's

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team from the city of

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. Formed in 1998 as Bristol Rovers W.F.C., they were renamed Bristol Academy W.F.C. in 2005 following increased involvement of the Bristol Academy of Sport, based at Filton College (now part of

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). A second change of name, this time to Bristol City was approved by the FA Women's Football Board in time for the 2016 WSL season. They play their home games at the Robins High Performance Centre. Bristol City Women won promotion to the

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(WSL), the highest level of the women's game in England in 2016 and stayed there for five seasons before being relegated to the

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in 2021.

History

The team was founded in 1998, following a

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between the

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girls' teams and

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side Cable-Tel L.F.C.. This merger came about as Bristol Rovers only had girls teams up to the under 16 age group level, so when girls reached the age of 16 they were forced to leave the club. The merger with Cable-Tel meant that Bristol Rovers had a senior squad, and more importantly it gave them a place in the South West Combination league, only two levels below the

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of women's football in

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. This new merged team took the name Bristol Rovers W.F.C. and played their home games at The Beeches, the training ground and administrative

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s of Bristol Rovers, located in

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. The team, like their male counterparts at Bristol Rovers, were somewhat

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in their early days, having played home matches at The Beeches, Lodge Road (home of Yate Town), Cossham Street ( Mangotsfield United), the Memorial Stadium (Bristol Rovers), Fry's Sports Ground in

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, The Lawns ( Cribbs F.C.), The Hand Stadium ( Clevedon Town), Lakeview (

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), and Oaklands Park ( Almondsbury Town). They finally acquired their own purpose-built home ground, Stoke Gifford Stadium, on land owned by Filton College (now

) in time for the inaugural

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season in 2011. Since then, all of their home games were played there up until the end of the 2019-20 season, with the exception of

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matches, which have been held at Ashton Gate. The name of the club was changed to Bristol Academy at the beginning of the 2005–06 season to reflect the increased involvement of the Bristol Academy of Sport with the club. The team continued to play in the blue and white quarters of Bristol Rovers however, and also retained the nickname ''The Gas Girls'', an acknowledgement of Rovers' unofficial nickname of ''The Gas''. Bristol Rovers, now in the bottom division of

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, found themselves unable to continue financing a women's team in 2006 and withdrew funding. Bristol Academy of Sport agreed to bankroll the team for 12 months, but there were serious doubts during the 2006–07 season that the club would survive beyond the summer. In summer 2009 the club had a funding crisis. Manager Gary Green was sacked,

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left for

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, Stef Curtis for

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and

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for Everton. Without their star players the team finished bottom of the table in 2009–10. The club were one of eight founding teams in the

in April 2011, when they moved into a brand new stadium at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College's Stoke Gifford Campus. In 2013 the club signed a sponsorship agreement with

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and changed their home kit from blue to red, and three years later the club was renamed Bristol City Women's Football Club. In July 2018, the club named

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its new manager, moving into the position from being an assistant with Birmingham City W.F.C.

League history

It took just two seasons to gain promotion to the

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, when the club won the South West Combination in the 2000–01

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under the management of Dave Bell. After this Dave Bell left the club to join the academy set-up at

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, and was replaced by

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. Tony Ricketts also achieved league success, with the team winning the Southern Division in the 2002–03 season and earning promotion to the

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. The first season in the top-flight was a struggle, with the team narrowly avoiding

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. However Bristol Academy established themselves in the National Division with two fifth-place finishes over the next two seasons. In the 2006–2007 season, they began as top contenders for the title, having reached the top spot in November (though defending champions Arsenal L.F.C. kept postponing matches due to

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and

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commitments, which might have been a factor in Bristol's recent success). As Arsenal restarted its League matches, however, Bristol Academy slipped, hovering between the 4th and 8th places. Bristol City Women finished 2nd in

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for the 2016 season and won promotion to

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for their 2017 campaign. They were relegated in the 2020/21 to the FA Women's Championship where they finished 3rd in their first season back in the second tier.

Cup history

London Bees v Bristol City WFC, 24 April 2016 (07)

In the short history of the team they have reached the

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of the

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five times. The first was in the 2000–01 season when they were still playing their league football in the South West Combination, playing in front of a club record crowd of over 3000 at the Memorial Stadium against Arsenal L.F.C. The match ended in a 3–0 defeat. Three more unsuccessful semi-final matches were to follow in this competition, against Fulham L.F.C. in 2002–03, Charlton Athletic L.F.C. in the 2004–05 season and Arsenal again providing the opposition in 2006–07. In 2011 the club reached the final of the FA Cup after a 3–0 semi-final win over

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. Bristol were beaten 2–0 by Arsenal in the final, before 13,885 fans at the

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. In 2013 the club reached its second FA Cup final after a 2–0 semi-final win over Lincoln Ladies. Bristol were again beaten by Arsenal 3–0 in the final at the

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. The team dominated the Gloucestershire FA Women's Challenge Cup in their early days, winning the trophy eight times in their first nine seasons. The only failure to win the competition came in the 2003–04 season when they were beaten in the final by the original Bristol City W.F.C., their first ever defeat to their cross-city rivals. Following the 2006–07 win the first team stopped competing in the tournament, although their junior teams continued taking part. They did manage to reach the final of the Continental Tyres League Cup Final in the 2020-21 season where they unfortunately suffered defeat against Chelsea FC.

UEFA competitions

*''For a detailed international record see English women's football clubs in international competitions'' Because of the new WSL, England's

places were allocated to the FA Cup finalists as a one time exception. Thus Bristol won a place in the

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round of 32. They started in the round of 32 and were drawn against Russian side

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and drew their home game 1–1 but lost the return leg in Russia 2–4 and didn't advance.

Season by season

League cup column shows results in the

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(2001–2010) and the

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(2011–present)
There was no WSL Cup tournament during the 2017 WSL Spring Series

Stadium

After having played at a number of different grounds, the team finally got their own home in 2011 when they moved into the newly built

Stoke Gifford Stadium Stoke Gifford Stadium is an association football stadium based in Filton, in South Gloucestershire, England. Until August 2020 it was the home of FA Women's Super League team Bristol City W.F.C. and the Bristol Aztecs american football team. It i ...

. It was the first stadium in the UK to be developed specifically for a women's football team, and is built on

's WISE campus. They stayed here until the end of the 2019-20 season. After this league requirements saw a move to Twerton Park and a groundshare with Bath City FC. The robins only stayed here for one season before they relocated to the Robins High Performance Centre for the start 2021-22 season. Multiple games have also been played at Ashton Gate stadium. The club record attendance came in April 2022 when 5,752 spectators watched Bristol City against Liverpool in the FA Women's Championship at Ashton Gate. This is also a record attendance for. game in the second tier of English Women's football.

Team honours

: 1 :: 2002–03 *

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: 1 :: 2000–01 *Gloucestershire FA Women's Challenge Cup: 8 :: 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07

Club records

Highest league finish position: 2nd in

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2013 as Bristol Academy W.F.C Lowest league position: 3rd in FA Womens Championship 2021/22 Most points in a season - 39 (2016

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) Lowest points in a season - 12 (2020/21

) Most league wins in a season - 12 (2016

) Fewest league wins in a season - 2 (2019/20

) Most league defeats in a season - 14 (2020/21

) Fewest league defeats in a season - 3 (2016

) Most league draws in a season - 6 (2020/21

) Fewest league draws in a season - 1 (2017/18

) Most league goals scored in a season - 43 (2021/22 FA Womens Championship) Fewest league goals scored in a season - 9 (2019/20

) * Most league goals conceded in a season - 72 (2020/21

) Fewest league goals conceded in a season - 16 (2016

) Biggest win - 7-1 Vs Queens Park Rangers WFC, SSE Women's FA Cup, February 14th 2016 Biggest defeat - 11-1

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- December 1st 2019 Highest scoring match - 11-1

- December 1st 2019 Highest transfer fee paid - Highest transfer fee received - £50,000 (

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January 2021) Most goals in a season by a player - Abi Harrison - 21 (2021/22 FA Womens Championship) Youngest player - 16 years and 44 days -

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(Vs Watford F.C. Women,

, 10 September 2016) Oldest player - 33 years and 168 days - Frankie Brown (Vs Birmingham City Women FC,

, 23 February 2020) Fastest goal - Chloe Bull - 38 seconds (Vs

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, FA Womens Championship, 5 February 2022) Most goals by a player in a match - 2 -

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(Vs Yeovil Town Ladies, March 23rd 2016) Youngest goalscorer - 16 years and 44 days -

(Vs Watford F.C. Women,

, 10 September 2016) Oldest goalscorer - 29 years and 237 days

Loren Dykes Loren Dykes (born 5 February 1988) is a football coach and player who is the assistant coach for Bristol City and a player for Cardiff City and the Wales women's national football team. Dykes began her playing career as a winger or forward bef ...

(Vs Yeovil Town Ladies,

, 30 September 2017) Most league matches won in a row - 5 - February 6th 2022 to March 13th 2022 Most league matches without losing - 7 - August 21st 2022 to November 20th 2022 Most league matches lost in a row - 6 - January 14th 2018 to April 18th 2022 Most league matches without winning - 11 - September 6th 2020 t0 January 30th 2021 Most league matches without conceding - 4 - March 26th 2016 to May 1st 2016 Highest attendance - 5,732 Vs

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- 3 April 2022, Ashton Gate Stadium Lowest attendance - 287 Vs Southampton F.C. Women - 11 December 2022 Highest average attendance - 1,215 (2019/20

) Most appearances: # Grace McCatty - 141 #

- 105 # Jasmine Matthews - 100 Frankie Brown - 100 #

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- 90 #

Flo Allen (footballer) Florence Allen (born 13 August 1999) is an English former footballer who played in the defender position for Bristol City. She has represented England on the under-17 national team. She is currently the General Manager of Norwich City Women. ...

- 87 #

Carla Humphrey Carla Humphrey (born 15 December 1996) is an English Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liverpool F.C. Women, Liverpool. Early life Humphrey attended sixth-form at Hinchingbrooke School in Cambridgeshire. Club career ...

- 86 # Abi Harrison - 82 # Angharad James (footballer) - 74 #

- 73 #

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- 71 All time top goal-scorers: # Abi Harrison - 34 #

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- 22 #

Laura del Río Laura del Río García (born 5 February 1982) is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a forward. She last managed men's club Flat Earth FC. She used to play for Bristol Academy in England's FA WSL. Prior to that, she ...

- 20 #

Ebony Salmon Ebony Salmon (born 27 January 2001) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for NWSL club Houston Dash and the England women's national team. A product of the Aston Villa academy, Salmon has previously played senior footb ...

- 18 # Millie Farrow - 14 Natasha Harding - 14 # Lucy Graham - 12 #

Claire Emslie Claire Emslie (born 8 March 1994) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a forward for Angel City FC in the National Women's Soccer League of the United States of America, and the Scotland national team. She previously played college soccer f ...

- 11

- 11 #

- 10 #

Jess Fishlock Jessica Anne Fishlock (born 14 January 1987) is a Welsh professional footballer and coach who plays as a midfielder for OL Reign and the Wales national team. She previously played for Bristol Academy in England's FA Women's Super League (FA ...

- 9

Jemma Rose Jemma Helen Rose (born 19 January 1992) is a former English footballer who plays for FA Women's National League South club Plymouth Argyle as a central defender. She has represented England, making her debut at senior level in November 2015. R ...

- 9 Chloe Bull - 9 #

Shania Hayles Shania Hayles (born 22 December 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Super League club Bristol City and the Jamaica national team. Club career Aston Villa Hayles returned to Aston Villa in July 2019 fr ...

- 8 Most clean sheets: #

- 27 # Fran Bentley - 15 # Caitlin Leach - 9

Current squad

Club Staff

Former players

''For details of former players, see :Bristol City W.F.C. players.''

References

External links

Bristol City club website
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