2021–22_Scottish_Women's_Premier_League

2021–22 Scottish Women's Premier League

Football league season

The 2021–22 Scottish Women's Premier League was the 21st season of the SWPL, the highest division of women's football in Scotland since 2002. The league is split into two divisions – SWPL 1 with 10 teams^[1] and SWPL 2 with seven teams, following the resignation of Forfar Farmington in 2021.^[2]

Glasgow City were the defending champions of 14 consecutive seasons. City lost a decisive away derby match, 3–1, at Rangers in February 2022;^[3] a 0–0 draw in the identical fixture, on 8 May, gave Rangers the SWPL 1 title, its first Scottish women's title.^[4] The SWPL 2 champions were Dundee United, 20 points ahead of the runners-up, Glasgow Women, who won promotion with a 3–1 win in the final match^[5]^[6] against third-placed Boroughmuir Thistle.^[7]^[8]

Two clubs were promoted from SWPL 2 and none relegated from SWPL 1 due to league expansion.^[9] The league's first promotion/relegation play-off had been planned^[10] until the expansion was confirmed in April 2022^[9] following the SWPL clubs' majority vote to leave SWF for the SPFL in February.^[11]

The league season started on 5 September 2021 and ended on 15 May 2022.^[12] The competition was known as the Scottish Building Society Scottish Women's Premier League for sponsorship reasons,^[13] then as the Park's Motor Group Scottish Women's Premier League from November 2021.^[14]

Teams

SWPL 1

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Team	Location	Head coach	Home ground	Capacity	2020–21 position
Aberdeen	Cove Bay	Emma Hunter Gavin Beith	Balmoral Stadium	2,602	1st in SWPL 2
Celtic	Airdrie	Fran Alonso	Excelsior Stadium	10,101	2nd
Glasgow City	Springburn	Eileen Gleeson	Petershill Park	1,000	1st
Hamilton Academical	Hamilton	Gary Doctor	New Douglas Park	6,018	2nd in SWPL 2
Heart of Midlothian	Edinburgh	Eva Olid	Oriam	1,000	8th
Hibernian	Livingston	Dean Gibson	Almondvale Stadium	3,000	4th
Motherwell	Motherwell	Stewart Hall Willie Kinniburgh (interim)	Alliance Park	500	6th
Partick Thistle	Springburn	Brian Graham	Petershill Park	1,000	3rd in SWPL 2
Rangers	Milngavie	Malky Thomson	Rangers Training Centre	500	3rd
Spartans	Edinburgh	Debbi McCulloch	Ainslie Park	3,000	5th

Source: ^[15]

SWPL 2

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Team	Location	Head coach	Home ground	Capacity	2020–21 position
Boroughmuir Thistle	Edinburgh	Suzy Shepherd	Meggetland Sports Complex	1,000	9th
Dundee United	Dundee	Graeme Hart (interim)	Regional Performance Centre		4th
Glasgow Girls & Women	Glasgow	Craig Joyce	New Tinto Park		6th
Kilmarnock	Kilmarnock	Andy Gardner	Rugby Park	17,889	8th
Queen's Park	Glasgow	Mark Kirk	Lesser Hampden	1,000	7th
St Johnstone	Perth	Jason McCrindle	McDiarmid Park	10,696	5th
Stirling University	Stirling	Craig Beveridge	Gannochy Sports Centre	1,000	10th

Source: ^[15]

Aberdeen

Celtic

Dundee United

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Glasgow teams:
Glasgow City
Glasgow Women
Partick Thistle
Queen's Park

Edinburgh teams:
Boroughmuir Thistle
Heart of Midlothian
Spartans

Locations of teams in the SWPL

SWPL 1

Quick Facts Season, Champions ...

Scottish Women's Premier League 1
Season	2021–22
Champions	Rangers
Matches played	135
Goals scored	481 (3.56 per match)
Biggest home win	Glasgow City 10–1 Aberdeen Glasgow City 9–0 Spartans
Biggest away win	Hamilton Academical 0–7 Rangers Partick Thistle 0–7 Celtic
Highest scoring	Glasgow City 10–1 Aberdeen (11 goals)
Longest unbeaten run	Rangers (27 games)
← 2020–21 2022–23 →

League table

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rangers (C, Q)	27	25	2	0	97	11	+86	77	Qualification for the Champions League first round
2	Glasgow City (Q)	27	22	4	1	89	13	+76	70	Qualification for the Champions League first round
3	Celtic	27	19	3	5	85	22	+63	60
4	Hibernian	27	13	4	10	46	32	+14	43
5	Aberdeen	27	9	2	16	39	69	−30	29
6	Spartans	27	6	10	11	28	54	−26	28
7	Motherwell	27	8	3	16	31	75	−44	27
8	Heart of Midlothian	27	6	2	19	20	66	−46	20
9	Partick Thistle	27	4	6	17	29	70	−41	18
10	Hamilton Academical	27	3	4	20	17	69	−52	13

Source: ^[16]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Results

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Matches 1 to 18

Home \ Away	ABE	CEL	GLA	HAW	HOM	HIB	MOT	PTW	RAN	SPA
Aberdeen		2–4	0–5	1–0	2–3	1–0	5–1	4–2	0–2	2–3
Celtic	3–1		2–2	3–0	2–0	2–1	7–0	6–0	0–1	2–2
Glasgow City	10–1	2–0		1–0	2–0	2–1	6–0	3–1	1–1	9–0
Hamilton Academical	1–2	0–6	1–3		0–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–7	2–2
Heart of Midlothian	0–4	0–3	0–2	1–2		1–3	1–0	2–4	0–3	1–1
Hibernian	1–0	1–1	0–3	2–2	3–0		1–0	1–0	0–1	3–0
Motherwell	4–3	0–4	1–5	3–0	2–0	0–4		2–2	0–1	3–0
Partick Thistle	0–2	0–7	0–2	2–2	2–3	3–2	3–2		0–1	2–2
Rangers	8–0	3–0	3–1	4–0	6–0	2–1	5–0	7–1		6–1
Spartans	0–0	0–2	0–4	1–0	3–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–5

Source: ^[17]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 19 to 27

Home \ Away	ABE	CEL	GLA	HAW	HOM	HIB	MOT	PTW	RAN	SPA
Aberdeen		0–3		2–1	0–1					1–1
Celtic					5–0	4–0	6–1		1–3
Glasgow City	4–1	2–1		6–0			6–0	2–0
Hamilton Academical		0–6				0–4			0–4	1–2
Heart of Midlothian			0–2	1–1				3–0	0–5
Hibernian	4–1		0–0		4–1		7–1
Motherwell	3–2			0–1	1–0			3–3	1–2
Partick Thistle	1–2	0–2		1–2		0–2				0–0
Rangers	4–0		0–0			5–0		6–1		2–1
Spartans		1–3	0–4		4–0	2–0	0–1

Source: ^[17]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

SWPL 2

Quick Facts Season, Champions ...

Scottish Women's Premier League 2
Season	2021–22
Champions	Dundee United
Promoted	Glasgow Women
Matches played	84
Goals scored	328 (3.9 per match)
Biggest home win	Glasgow Women 8–1 Stirling University Kilmarnock 7–0 Stirling University
Biggest away win	Stirling University 0–7 Dundee United
Highest scoring	Glasgow Women 8–1 Stirling University (9 goals)
Longest unbeaten run	Dundee United (21 games)
← 2020–21 2022–23 →

League table

More information Pos, Team ...

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dundee United (C, P)	24	21	2	1	89	21	+68	65	Promotion to SWPL 1
2	Glasgow Women (P)	24	13	6	5	52	30	+22	45	Promotion to SWPL 1
3	Boroughmuir Thistle	24	12	4	8	54	38	+16	40
4	Kilmarnock	24	9	5	10	52	51	+1	32
5	St Johnstone	24	9	5	10	42	46	−4	32
6	Queen's Park	24	4	4	16	26	56	−30	16
7	Stirling University	24	2	2	20	13	86	−73	8

Source: ^[18]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Results

More information Home \ Away, BOR ...

Matches 1 to 12

Home \ Away	BOR	DUN	GLW	KIL	QPA	STJ	STI
Boroughmuir Thistle		1–2	2–3	1–0	1–1	4–1	3–0
Dundee United	4–1		2–0	4–0	3–1	5–1	5–1
Glasgow Women	3–2	0–0		3–2	1–1	1–1	8–1
Kilmarnock	3–2	1–3	2–2		3–3	1–4	7–0
Queen's Park	1–2	0–6	0–2	2–2		0–2	0–2
St Johnstone	2–3	1–4	2–3	2–4	2–1		2–0
Stirling University	2–3	1–5	0–5	1–3	0–2	0–0

Source: ^[18]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 13 to 24

Home \ Away	BOR	DUN	GLW	KIL	QPA	STJ	STI
Boroughmuir Thistle		4–1	1–2	1–1	4–0	1–1	5–1
Dundee United	4–0		2–2	6–1	3–1	3–2	3–0
Glasgow Women	3–1	0–3		2–2	3–1	0–2	0–2
Kilmarnock	1–5	0–4	0–3		1–0	1–2	4–0
Queen's Park	1–2	1–5	0–3	1–4		1–0	4–0
St Johnstone	1–1	2–5	1–0	0–5	4–2		6–0
Stirling University	0–4	0–7	0–3	0–4	1–2	1–1

Source: ^[18]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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[2]
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[8]
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[9]
"SWPL top flight expanding to 12 teams for next season". BBC Sport. 1 Apr 2022.
[10]
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External links

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