Hibernian Women's Football Club is a

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team based in

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that plays in the

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, the top division of women's football in Scotland. They were officially integrated as a department of

Hibernian F.C. Hibernian Football Club (), commonly known as Hibs, is a professional football club in Edinburgh, Scotland. The team competes in the , the top division of Scottish football. The club was founded in 1875 by members of Edinburgh's Irish commu ...

in 2022, having previously been linked less formally via their community foundation, using the club's training facilities and colours.

History

Founded in 1997 by Iain Johnston and Paul Johnston, for the initial two seasons of its existence the club was under the auspices of Preston Athletic. The name changed to Hibernian Ladies in 1999 and they became one of the leading women's teams in Scotland. After being temporarily voted out of the

by its other member clubs in 2005 after officials failed to attend the body's AGM (subsequently downgraded to a warning and small fine), in 2006–07 Hibs secured a domestic

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, finishing the league campaign with a 100% record. The club has won the league championship three times and then represented Scotland in the

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. In that competition they failed to progress beyond the first round in each instance, finishing second twice and third once in the group stage. Rhonda

Hibernian won the Women's Scottish Cup in 2010, for the fifth time in eight years. The team's success in the national cup competition was in contrast to their male affiliate, who had not won the

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. In January 2011, six Hibernian players were called into the

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. In May 2011, Hibernian beat local rivals Spartans 5–2 in the

Scottish Women's Premier League Cup The Scottish Women's Premier League Cup, currently known as the Sky Sports Cup due to sponsorship and commonly shortened to the SWPL Cup, is a league cup competition in women's football in Scotland. The cup is open only to the teams in the Scottis ...

final. Hibs won domestic cup doubles in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Ahead of the 2020 season, the club was rebranded as Hibernian Women and offered their first part-time professional contracts. The senior team was fully integrated into the men's club in July 2022, with the youth sides still being run by the Hibernian Community Foundation.Hibernian take women's side under club ownership
BBC Sport, 7 July 2022 Hibs won the Scottish league championship in 2024–25, clinching the title by winning a deciding match on the final day of the season against

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at Ibrox. BBC Sport said before the match that it would arguably be the most surprising league championship in Great Britain that season given the increased funding for the Glasgow clubs since Hibs had last won the title in 2007. It also noted that Hibs had finished fifth, 36 points behind the league champions, in the previous season.

Stadium

For the 2011 season, Hibernian moved into

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, the home of junior football club Broxburn Athletic. The club had previously played its home matches on the training ground of Hibernian F.C. in East Lothian. Hibs then used

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in Edinburgh as their regular home ground for several seasons, but have also played one-off games at

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. They moved into the

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in Livingston for the 2021–22 season. The team moved into the refurbished

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in July 2022, as part of a wider partnership between Hibernian and Edinburgh City (then known as FC Edinburgh).

Current squad

Out on loan

Technical staff

List of Managers

* Willie Kirk (2011–13) *Chris Roberts (2014–17) *

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(2017–18) *Grant Scott (2018–2019) *Dean Gibson (2020–2023) * Grant Scott (2023–present)

Achievements

**Winners (4): 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2024–25 **Runners-up (9): 2002–03, 2004–05, 2007–08,

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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 ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Scottish Women's Cup The Women's Scottish Cup is the national knockout cup competition for women's football in Scotland. First held in 1970–71 and known as the Scottish Women's FA Cup, the competition was owned and managed by Scottish Women's Football (SWF), an ...

**Winners (8): 2002–03, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2007–08,

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

**Runners-up (4):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

**Winners (7): 2004–05, 2007–08,

**Runners-up (5): 2006–07,

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

European history

Hibernian have participated in six seasons of UEFA competitions.

Former players

''For notable former players, see :Hibernian W.F.C. players.''

References

External links

* {{Football in Edinburgh Women's football clubs in Scotland Football in West Lothian 1997 establishments in Scotland Association football clubs established in 1997 Scottish Women's Premier League clubs Football clubs in Edinburgh Hibernian F.C.