The 2008–09 Scottish Women's Premier League was the seventh season of the

Scottish Women's Premier League The Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) is the highest level of league competition in women's football in Scotland. Its two divisions are SWPL (previously styled as ''SWPL 1'') and SWPL 2. The league was formed when the Premier Division of th ...

, the top level of

women's football in Scotland Women's association football in Scotland has an organised history including the first international women's match in 1881, the president of the British Ladies' Football Club in 1895, Lady Florence Dixie, the Edinburgh–Preston "World Championshi ...

. Matches were played between August 2008 and May 2009. 12 teams were originally invited to contest the championship, with Boroughmuir Thistle and Dundee United SC, winners and runners-up respectively in the 2007–08 SWFL First Division (Boroughmuir had completed that season as Dalkeith Thistle), taking the places of Newburgh, who had folded prior to the start of the 2007–08 SWPL leaving the division with 11 teams, and relegated Vale of Clyde. However, Queen's Park withdrew after the 2008–09 campaign started but without having themselves playing a match, so 11 teams again took part. Glasgow City won the championship by a margin of two points ahead of

Spartans Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement in the valley of Evrotas river in Laconia, in southeastern P ...

(previously known as Edinburgh Ladies) and three ahead of

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, who were the only team to defeat them, to qualify for the

2009–10 UEFA Women's Champions League The UEFA Women's Champions League 2009–10 was the first edition of the newly branded tournament, and the ninth edition of a UEFA tournament for women's champion football clubs. For the first time the top 8 leagues of the UEFA were awarded two ...

. It was their second consecutive title, and third overall. Glasgow City also won the 2008–09 Scottish Women's Premier League Cup and the

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to complete the 'treble'. With one place already vacated for the following season with the withdrawal of Queen's Park, the only team to be relegated conventionally was

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. It was decided that the SWPL would change from a winter to a summer schedule going forwards,SFA chief keen on season change
BBC Sport, 30 November 2009 so a transitional, shortened campaign with only one round of fixtures was played in the second half of 2009.

League standings

References

External links

Results
at Spartans FC Women

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