WSL 1 2017-18

WSL 1 2017-18	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Chelsea (C)	18	13	5	0	44	13	31	44
Manchester City	18	12	2	4	51	17	34	38
Arsenal	18	11	4	3	38	18	20	37
Reading	18	9	5	4	40	18	22	32
Birmingham City	18	9	3	6	30	18	12	30
Liverpool	18	9	1	8	30	27	3	28
Sunderland (R)	18	5	1	12	15	40	-25	16
Bristol City	18	5	1	12	13	47	-34	16
Everton	18	4	2	12	19	30	-11	14
Yeovil Town	18	0	2	16	2	54	-52	2

WSL 2 2017-18

WSL 2 2017-18	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Doncaster Rovers Belles (R)	18	15	2	1	52	15	37	47
Brighton & Hove Albion (P)	18	12	1	5	35	26	9	37
Millwall Lionesses #	18	12	3	3	40	23	17	36
Durham	18	11	2	5	44	26	18	35
Sheffield FC (R)	18	9	1	8	40	31	9	28
London Bees	18	6	5	7	29	32	-3	23
Tottenham Hotspur	18	6	4	8	32	34	-4	22
Oxford United (R)	18	3	3	12	24	41	-17	12
Aston Villa	18	3	2	13	21	40	-19	11
Watford (R)	18	1	1	16	8	57	-49	4

Note: (C) Champions (P) Promoted to WSL 1 (R) Relegated to WPL (Women’s Premier League Tier 3). A license system is used for determining what teams are promoted and relegated from each of the Tiers in the Football Association Women’s Leagues. Note 2: Teams in bold and italics had Irish players on their roster in 2017-18.

Irish Players

Team	Name	Pos	Coun	D.O.B	LA	LG	TA	TG
Arsenal	Katie McCabe	F	IRL	01.09.95	10	2	17	2
Arsenal	Louise Quinn	D	IRL	17.06.90	16	1	27	3
Brighton	Marie Hourihan	G	IRL	10.03.87	4	0	4	0
Brighton	Sophie Perry	D	IRL	11.11.86	13	2	18	2
Everton	Simone Magill	F	NIR	01.11.94	7	1	12	2
Man City	Megan Campbell	D	IRL	28.06.93	4	0	10	0
Reading	Rachel Furness	M	NIR	19.06.88	17	3	24	6
Reading	Grace Moloney	G	IRL	01.03.93	4	0	10	0
Reading	Harriet Scott	D	IRL	10.02.93	9	0	13	0
Yeovil T	Chelsea Cochrane	M	NIR	06.09.99	2	0	2	0
Yeovil T	Harriet Lambe	D	IRL	01.06.01	2	0	2	0

Report

11 Irish Players – a full Soccer team! – played in the FA Women’s Super League 1 in England in 2017-18. Republic of Ireland players Katie McCabe and Louise Quinn (Arsenal FC), Marie Hourihan and Sophie Perry (Brighton & Hove Albion), Megan Campbell (Everton), Grace Moloney and Harriet Scott (Reading) and Harriet Lambe (Yeovil Town), as well as Northern Ireland players Rachel Furness (Reading) and Chelsea Cochrane (Yeovil Town) all played top flight Football in 2017-18.

Rachel Furness of Reading scored six goals in total accross all competitions, Louise Quinn three goals and Katie McCabe, Simone Magill and Sophie Perry each scored two goals. Rachel Furness played in 17 of Reading’s 18 WSL games and 24 games in total, and Louise Quinn played in 16 WSL games and 27 games in total.

References

Logos

[1] FA Barclay’s Women’s Super League Twitter Account (2021) Profile Picture: mDxMffvE_400x400 [Internet] Available from: https://twitter.com/BarclaysFAWSL/photohttps://twitter.com/BarclaysFAWSL/photo [Accessed 28 January 2021]

Bibliography

[2] Chris Slegg & Tom Garry (2019) “2017/18 League Tables” Women’s Football Yearbook 2018-19. pg. 380. also Team Pages 44-103 for Player Information.

Images

[3] FAI (2021) Katie [nternet] Available from: https://www.fai.ie/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/thumbnails/image/Katie.jpg?itok=Bhr7hTex [Accessed 28 January 2021]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Rose McCabe.

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