Glasgow City Football Club is a women's football team based in

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that plays in SWPL 1, the top division of women's football in Scotland and also the higher of two levels of the Scottish Women's Premier League. The club has competed in the

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and

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. They also have a reserve team and youth teams. Glasgow City has won the most Premier League titles and the most Scottish Cups in Scotland since 2000. In 2016, Glasgow City won their tenth Scottish Women's Premier League title in a row, a Scottish record surpassing the previous record of nine achieved by the men's teams of Celtic and Rangers. However they lost their four-year monopoly on the domestic trophies with Hibernian L.F.C. winning the SWPL Cup and Scottish Cup. By 2021, they had won 14 SWPL titles in a row.

History

Glasgow City Football Club was formed in 1998 by Laura Montgomery and Carol Anne Stewart. They play in orange and black. The club play their home matches at Petershill Park in the Springburn district in the north of Glasgow, although from 2014 to 2017 they played at the larger

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in Airdrie, around 15 miles outside the city, due to issues with the artificial playing surface at Petershill. For the 2020–21 season, with Petershill unavailable, they played at

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, North Lanarkshire. City completed a domestic clean sweep in

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, winning the treble, and they completed a second consecutive domestic treble in

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. Between the seasons 2009 and

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inclusive, Glasgow City lost only three League matches, and continued an unprecedented run of successive Scottish championships that began in 2007–08 It was reported Glasgow City had held talks with the FA WSL in February 2013 about a possible move to an extended top flight in England. City cited football was not moving forward quickly enough in Scotland for women to match their ambition. The FA shut the door on any potential move. City general manager Laura Montgomery later reiterated the club's desire to play in the FA WSL. During the

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season, Glasgow City secured an eighth successive SWPL title and third successive treble. After a superb 5–4 aggregate win against FC Zurich, City became the first Scottish team to reach the

quarter-finals in November 2014.Women's Champions League: Glasgow City 4-2 Zurich (5-4)
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powered home a header a few minutes from time to send them through. In the quarter-finals,

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proved too strong for City, with a 7–0 aggregate victory. City were seeded for the UEFA Women's Champions League in 2015–16, as they entered straight in to the round of 32, both for the very first time. As the eighth seeds, the team will face

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. In July 2015, Eddie Wolecki stepped down as Glasgow City manager after four and a half years in charge, with Scott Booth announced as his replacement. City reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the second time in 2019–20; they were the last independent women's football club to achieve this. In the 2020–21 Scottish Women's Premier League, they won their fourteenth title in succession. Following the departure of Scott Booth in summer 2021 to take head coach role at Birmingham City W.F.C., Grant Scott was appointed as interim head coach until Eileen Gleeson was freed from her commitments as assistant coach with Republic of Ireland women's national team and could take up post as head coach in November 2021.

Club records

* Record win: 29–0 against FC Kilmarnock, May 2010. * Record defeat: 0–10 against Turbine Potsdam in the

, 2 November 2011. * Most goals in all competitions: Leanne Ross, 250. * Most league goals in a season: Leanne Ross, 42 (during the 2010 season). * Most goals in a season: Leanne Ross, 54 (during the 2010 season). * Most goals in a game: Debbie McWhinnie, 12 against Motherwell in the

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, February 2004. * Highest European home attendance: 1,785 against

, 22 March 2015.

Honours

* Scottish Women's Premier League **Winners (15): 2004–05, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009, 2010, 2011,

, 2015,

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, 2020–21 *

**Winners (9): 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011,

, 2015,

* Scottish Women's Premier League Cup **Winners (6): 2008–09, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 * Scottish Women's Football First Division **Winners (1): 1998–99

Other tournaments

* National 5-A-Side **Winners (2): 1999–00, 2000–01 * Umbro Cup (Manchester) ** Winners (2): 2007, 2009 (shared) * Reebok Trophy (Mansfield) ** Winners (1): 1999

Awards

* Scottish Sports Awards Amateur Performance of the Year: 2011 * GCC Glasgow Team of the Year: 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014 * Glaswegian Team of the Year: 2009 * Sports Council of Glasgow Performance Team of the Year: 2010

European history

Glasgow City has participated in several seasons of

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competitions; reaching the second qualifying round of the Women's Cup (last 16) in the 2008–09 season. In the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League they won their qualifying group and moved on to the round of 32. They then defeated Icelandic team Valur to become the first Scottish side to reach the round of 16 of the Champions League. The Round of 16 ended in "humiliating" fashion for Glasgow City, where against German champions Turbine Potsdam, they lost the tie 17–0 on aggregate. The 10–0 first leg defeat in

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is the only time any team in the knockout stages of the champions league has been beaten by double figures. In 2013–14 they reached the round of 16 again, losing 2–6 against Arsenal on aggregate. In 2014 they became the first Scottish team to advance to the quarterfinals, and achieved the feat again in 2020, but lost 9–1 to

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(twice previous winners and runners-up twice more) in a single-game tie played in San Sebastián due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.Glasgow City 1-9 Wolfsburg: Scots eliminated in last eight
BBC Sport, 21 August 2020

Current squad

Former players

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

Current technical staff

:''As of 3 June 2022''

Other Staff

Player of the year

* 2021/22 - Jenna Clark * 2020/21 - Priscila Chinchilla /

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* 2019 -

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* 2018 -

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* 2017 - Abbi Grant * 2016 - Erin Cuthbert * 2015 - Denise O'Sullivan * 2014 - Denise O'Sullivan * 2013 - Suzanne Lappin * 2012 - Jane Ross *2011 - Clare Gemmell *2010 - Suzanne Lappin *2009 - Katharina Lindner *2008 - Megan Sneddon *2007 -

Jane Ross Jane Ross may refer to: * Jane Ross (collector) (1810–1879), Irish folksong collector * Jane Ross (philanthropist) (1920–1999), American businesswoman and philanthropist *Jane Ross (footballer) Jane Celestina Ross (born 18 September 1989) i ...

*2006 - Katharina Lindner *2005 -

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*2004 -

*2003 - Debbie McWhinnie *2002 - Pauline McVey *2001 - Laura Montgomery *2000 - Susan Maxwell & Laura MacDonald (Shared) *1999 -

Kirsten Abercrombie Kirsten is both a given name and a surname. Given name Kirsten is a female given name. It is a Scandinavian form of the names Christina and Christine.Peter Caulfield: 1999–2010 * Eddie Wolecki Black: 2011–2015 * Scott Booth: 2015–2021 * Grant Scott: 2021 (Interim) * Eileen Gleeson: 2021-2022

References

External links

* *
Glasgow City
at the SWPL official website

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