All women's leagues in England are part of a pyramid structure with the
FA Women's Super League (FA WSL) being the pinnacle. Leagues become gradually more regional the further down the pyramid you go.
The
Women's football in England pyramid has 10 levels.
FA Women's Super League
The following clubs are in the
FA Women's Super League for the 2022–23 season:
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Arsenal
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Aston Villa
Aston Villa Football Club is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club competes in the , the top tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1874, they have played at their home ground, Villa Park ...
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Brighton & Hove Albion
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Chelsea
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Everton
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Leicester City
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Liverpool
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Manchester City
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The tw ...
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Manchester United
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of City of Salford, Salford to ...
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Reading
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Tottenham Hotspur
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West Ham United
FA Women's Championship
The following clubs are in the
FA Women's Championship
The Women's Championship (formerly The FA Women's Championship) is the second-highest division of women's football in England. The division was established in 2014 as the FA Women's Super League 2 (WSL 2).
WSL 2 replaced the previous level 2 d ...
for the 2022–23 season:
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Birmingham City
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Blackburn Rovers
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Bristol City
Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England, which compete in the , the second tier of English football. They have played their home games at Ashton Gate since moving from St John's Lane in 1904. The ...
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Charlton Athletic
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Coventry United
Coventry United Football Club is an English association football club based in Coventry in the West Midlands. The team competes in the , the 9th tier of English football and are managed by Carl Nolan
The club was founded in 2013 by chairman J ...
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Crystal Palace
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Durham
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Lewes
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London City Lionesses
London City Lionesses is a fully professional women's association football club based in Dartford, England. The team competes in the Women's Championship, the second tier of English women's football. The club was founded in May 2019, as an i ...
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Sheffield United
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Southampton
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Sunderland
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FA Women's National League
Northern Division
The following clubs are in the
FA Women's National League North
The FA Women's National League Northern Premier Division is a league at the third-level in the women's football league pyramid in England, along with the Southern division. These two divisions are part of the FA Women's National League and bel ...
for the 2022–23 season:
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Boldmere St. Michaels
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Brighouse Town
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Burnley
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Derby County
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Fylde
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Huddersfield Town
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Liverpool Feds
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Loughborough Lightning
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Nottingham Forest
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Stoke City
Stoke City Football Club is a professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which competes in the . Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863, it changed its name to Stoke in 1878 and then to Stoke City in 1925 after Stoke ...
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West Bromwich Albion
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Wolverhampton Wanderers
Southern Division
The following clubs are in the
FA Women's National League South
The FA Women's National League Southern Premier Division is a league in the third level in the women's football pyramid in England, along with the Northern division. These two divisions are part of the FA Women's National League and below the W ...
for the 2022–23 season:
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Billericay Town
Billericay Town Football Club is a football club based in Billericay, Essex, England. The club are currently members of and play at New Lodge. They are the second most successful club in FA Vase history, having won the competition on three o ...
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Bridgwater United
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Cheltenham Town
Cheltenham Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. From the 2021–22 season, the club compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league syst ...
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Crawley Wasps
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Gillingham
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Ipswich Town
Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. They play in League One, the third tier of the English football league system.
The club was founded in 1878 but did not turn profession ...
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London Bees
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Milton Keynes Dons
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Oxford United
Oxford United Football Club is a professional football club in the city of Oxford, England. The team plays in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. The chairman is Grant Ferguson, the manager is Karl Robinson and th ...
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Plymouth Argyle
Plymouth Argyle Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Plymouth, Devon, England. As of the 2021–22 season, the team are competing in League One, the third tier of English football. They have played at Home Park, ...
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Portsmouth
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Watford
FA Women's National League Division One
Division One North
The following clubs are in the
FA Women's National League Division One North
FA, Fa or fa may refer to:
People
* Fa of Xia, King of China 1747–1728 BC
* Fa Ngum (1316–1393), founder and ruler of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang
Places
* Fa, Aude, a commune of the Aude ' in France
* Falmouth Academy, a private colle ...
for the 2022–23 season:
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Barnsley
Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...
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Bradford City
Bradford City Association Football Club is an English professional football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system and are currently managed by Mark Hughes.
Th ...
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Chorley
Chorley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, north of Wigan, south west of Blackburn, north west of Bolton, south of Preston and north west of Manchester. The town's wealth came pr ...
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Durham Cestria Durham most commonly refers to:
*Durham, England, a cathedral city and the county town of County Durham
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Hull City
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Leeds United
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Merseyrail
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Middlesbrough
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Newcastle United
Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, that plays in the Premier League – the top flight of English football. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End ...
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Norton & Stockton Ancients
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Stockport County
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York City
Division One Midlands
The following clubs are in the
FA Women's National League Division One Midlands
FA, Fa or fa may refer to:
People
* Fa of Xia, King of China 1747–1728 BC
* Fa Ngum (1316–1393), founder and ruler of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang
Places
* Fa, Aude, a commune of the Aude ' in France
* Falmouth Academy, a private colleg ...
for the 2022–23 season:
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Doncaster Rovers Belles
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Leafield Athletic
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Leek Town
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Lincoln City
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Long Eaton United
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Northampton Town
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Peterborough United
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Sheffield F.C.
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Solihull Moors
Solihull Moors Football Club is a professional football club based in Solihull, England. The club currently competes in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system, after achieving promotion from the National Leag ...
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Sporting Khalsa
Sporting Khalsa Football Club are a football club, formed in 1991, members of the , who play their home games at Noose Lane in Willenhall, West Midlands. Being founded by the local Sikh community, they are the first British Asian club to own the ...
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Stourbridge
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Wem Town
Division One South East
The following clubs are in the
FA Women's National League Division One South East
FA, Fa or fa may refer to:
People
* Fa of Xia, King of China 1747–1728 BC
* Fa Ngum (1316–1393), founder and ruler of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang
Places
* Fa, Aude, a commune of the Aude ' in France
* Falmouth Academy, a private colle ...
for the 2022–23 season:
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Actonians
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AFC Wimbledon
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Ashford Town
Ashford Town (Middlesex) Football Club are a football club based in Stanwell, Surrey, England. The club are currently members of the and play at the Robert Parker Stadium in Short Lane. They are affiliated to both the Middlesex FA and the Sur ...
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Cambridge City
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Cambridge United
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Chesham United
Chesham United Football Club is a semi-professional football club in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England. Nicknamed "the Generals", they are currently members of the and play at the Meadow.
History
The club was established in 1917 by a merger o ...
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Hashtag United
Hashtag United Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Essex, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Len Salmon Stadium.
Founded in 2016 by YouTube personality Spencer Carmichael-Brown, the club original ...
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Hounslow
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London Seaward
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Norwich City
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Queens Park Rangers
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Wymondham Town
Division One South West
The following clubs are in the
FA Women's National League Division One South West
FA, Fa or fa may refer to:
People
* Fa of Xia, King of China 1747–1728 BC
* Fa Ngum (1316–1393), founder and ruler of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang
Places
* Fa, Aude, a commune of the Aude ' in France
* Falmouth Academy, a private colle ...
for the 2022–23 season:
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AFC Bournemouth
AFC Bournemouth () is a professional association football club based in Kings Park, Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest division of English club football. Formed in 1899 as B ...
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AFC St Austell
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Cardiff City
Cardiff City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1899 as R ...
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Exeter City
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Keynsham Town
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Larkhall Athletic
Larkhall ( sco, Larkhauch, gd, Taigh na h-Uiseig) is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, around southeast of Glasgow. It is twinned with Seclin in northern France.
Larkhall sits on high ground between the River Clyde to the East and the ...
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Maidenhead United
Maidenhead United Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. They are currently members of and have played at York Road since 1871, making it the 'oldest senior football ground continuously ...
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Moneyfields
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Portishead Town
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Selsey
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Southampton Women's
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Swindon Town
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List of women's national football teams
This is a complete list of national teams in women's association football, arranged alphabetically within their confederations.
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List of women's football teams
This is a partial list of women's association football club teams from all over the world sorted by the confederation they reside in. Only teams playing at the highest level in each country are shown; for clubs playing at lower divisions, see the ...
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International competitions in women's association football
This article lists all international competitions in women's football (soccer). The competitions included are for national teams as well as club sides. Competitions past and present are included. Note that some competitions may not be directly run ...
References
External links
The FA Women's Page
{{Women's football in England
England women
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