Glasgow City Football Club is a professional women's

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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 UEFA Women's Cup 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. However they lost their four-year monopoly on the domestic trophies with Hibernian L.F.C. winning the SWPL Cup and Scottish Cup. The club's most recent title success came in dramatic fashion at the conclusion of the 2022-23 season with Glasgow City, Rangers W.F.C. and Celtic F.C. Women all going into the final day with an opportunity to claim the title. At Ibrox Stadium an injury time goal from Lauren Davidson secured a 16th Scottish Women's Premier League title making Leanne Ross the first female Head Coach to win the Scottish Women's Premier League in the process.

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

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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 Broadwood Stadium in

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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

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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

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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 faced Chelsea, only to lose 4-0 on aggregate. 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. In December 2022, Gleeson stepped down and was replaced by the club's all-time leading appearance leader, goalscorer and former captain Leanne Ross. In Ross' first season in charge she would lead the side to a 16th SWPL title, claiming the title on the final day of the season. The 2023-24 season saw City eliminated from the knock-out rounds of the Champions League by SK Brann (women) having successfully defeated FC Gintra and Shelbourne F.C. (women) in their Qualifying Round 1 Group Stage Round Robin. The season would end without any silverware for the club. Ahead of the 2024-25 season former Head Coach Scott Booth was appointed as Assistant First Team Coach but he departed the club in November 2024 to take up the role of Aberdeen F.C. Women, in his place former Glasgow City midfielder and Scotland international Leanne Crichton was appointed. The 2024-25 season ended with the club finishing second in the SWPL qualifying for the UEFAL Women's Champions League and as runners up in the Women's Scottish Cup after a 3-0 defeat to Rangers in the final.

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, 264. * 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

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in the Scottish Women's Cup, February 2004. * Highest European home attendance: 1,785 against

, 22 March 2015.

Honours

* Scottish Women's Premier League **Winners (16): 2004–05, 2007–08, 2008–09,

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

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, 2020–21, 2022–23 * Scottish Women's Cup **Winners (9): 2003–04, 2005–06, 2008–09,

* Scottish Women's Premier League Cup **Winners (6): 2008–09,

* Scottish Women's Football First Division **Winners: 1998–99

Other tournaments

* National 5-A-Side **Winners: 1999–00, 2000–01 * Umbro Cup (Manchester) ** Winners: 2007, 2009 (shared) * Reebok Trophy (Mansfield) ** Winners: 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. At the time, the 10–0 first leg defeat in

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was 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 (the unwanted records from the Potsdam tie were eclipsed that season by

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who won their round of 32 tie 13–0 and 14–0 for a 27–0 aggregate). In 2014–15 they became the first Scottish team to advance to the quarterfinals, being eliminated by

, and achieved the feat again in 2019–20 but lost 9–1 to Wolfsburg (twice previous winners and runners-up twice more) in a single-game tie played in

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due to the

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.Glasgow City 1-9 Wolfsburg: Scots eliminated in last eight
BBC Sport, 21 August 2020 *''Glasgow City score listed first''

Players

Current squad

Club staff

:''As of 29 May 2025''

Corporate staff

Coaching staff

Former players

Player of the year

* 2024/25 - Aleigh Gambone * 2023/24 - Kenzie Weir * 2022/23 - Lauren Davidson * 2021/22 - Jenna Clark * 2020/21 - Priscila Chinchilla / Janine Van Wyk * 2019 - Kirsty Howat * 2018 - Leanne Crichton * 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 *2006 - Katharina Lindner *2005 - Jayne Sommerville *2004 - Suzanne Lappin *2003 - Debbie McWhinnie *2002 - Pauline McVey *2001 - Laura Montgomery *2000 - Susan Maxwell & Laura MacDonald ''(shared)'' *1999 - Kirsten Abercrombie & Fiona Laird ''(shared)''

Hall of Fame Inductees

In May 2025 Glasgow City opened their Hall of Fame. The first induction took place on Thursday 8th May 2025 at voco Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. *2025 - Kathleen Kimmet *2025 - Jo Love *2025 - Leanne Ross *2025 - Suzanne Lappin *2025 - Emma Fernon

Former managers

* Kathleen Kimmet: 1998–1999 * Peter Caulfield: 1999–2010 * Eddie Wolecki Black: 2011–2015 * Scott Booth: 2015–2021 * Grant Scott: 2021 ''(interim)'' * Eileen Gleeson: 2021-2022

References

External links

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Glasgow City
at the SWPL official website
Glasgow City F.C.
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