2015_Scottish_Women's_Premier_League
2015 Scottish Women's Premier League
Football league season
The 2015 Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) was the fourteenth season of the Scottish Women's Premier League, the highest division of women's football in Scotland since its inception in 2002.
A total of twelve teams contested the league. Glasgow City were the reigning champions.[1] The newly-promoted teams from the SWFL First Division were Heart of Midlothian and Stirling University, replacing relegated Queen's Park and Buchan.
The SWPL continued in the format applied since 2012. The 12 clubs faced each other once (11 games per club), after which the league split into top six and bottom six sections based on league position. Each club then played home and away against clubs in their respective sections to give a total of 21 games. For the first time, two Scottish teams qualified for the UEFA Women's Champions League, due to an expanded entry list starting from 2016–17.[2]
Glasgow City won the championship by a 6-point margin ahead of Hibernian. This was their ninth title in a row, and their tenth overall. Glasgow City also won the 2015 Scottish Women's Premier League Cup and the 2015 Scottish Women's Cup to complete an unbeaten 'treble' (the fourth time in a row they had claimed all three domestic trophies, and the fifth time in their history). With the SWPL restructuring into two smaller divisions, four clubs – Hearts, Hamilton Academical, Hutchison Vale and Inverness City – were relegated from the top level.