Keynsham Town L.F.C. are an

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women's football club affiliated with Keynsham Town F.C. and currently playing in the .

History

The club was formed under the name Super Strikers Girls in 1993, as an U-11 six-a-side team, by pupils of Chandag Junior School. Over the next four years they were renamed Protel Super Strikers and adopted a green and white kit modelled on that of

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In 1998 the club linked up with Keynsham Town F.C., became Keynsham Town Ladies, and entered a senior team in the South West Women's Football League Division Two. The team progressed through the league, winning promotion to Division One (South) in 1998–99, to the Premier Division in 2001–02, to the South West Combination Women's league in 2003–04 having won the Premier Division title, and eventually to the

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in 2005–06, having won the South West Combination Women's league. Due to the club's proximity to universities in

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and

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, Keynsham Town Ladies were able to attract a number of international players to an increasingly cosmopolitan squad. When the club reached the quarter-finals of the Premier League Cup for the first time in 2009–10, the squad named for the 4–0 defeat to

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contained nine different nationalities. After the club's most successful league finish of third in 2009–10, manager Barrie Newton signed a number of prominent players, including Corinne Yorston (on loan from Bristol Academy),

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and

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Current squad

''Updated 7 February 2022''

Former players

Coaching Staff

External links

Official Website

References

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