Celtic FC Women’s Team – The Celtic Wiki

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Details

Ref: Celtic football team for females/ Celtic Women’s Team
aka: Celtic Bhoyettes side,Celtic FC Ladies team / Celtic Women’s Team
Established: 2007
Turned Professional: 2020

Notes

Season 2020 – Big change, with Celtic funding & supporting a professional women’s side. At the time it was Glasgow City FC women’s side who are the major champions & players.
2020/21 Celtic womens team: qualify for UWCL for first time for season 2021/22. Congrats & good luck.
Shen Mengyu (China National team) becomes the first #CelticFC Women’s player ever to feature at the Women’s World Cup (July 2023).
In 2023, Celtic announced Scottish footballing legend Rose Reilly as the new Ambassador of Celtic FC Women. A very deserved honour.
In 2024, Celtic won the league title in injury time in the final league match of the season, with the winning goal scored by Amy Gallacher the great-granddaughter of the great ex-Celt Patsy Gallacher.
In 2024, they made it to the group stages of the UWCL (Champion’s League) for the first time.

Overview

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Pictures & Galleries

Celtic FC Women’s Team – Pics 1

Honours

Twitter/Social Media Links

@CelticFCWomen – Official Twitter Account
@CynicWomen (Dedicated account for Celtic FC Women football coverage and the weekly Celtic Women’s Football Show on The Cynic
@CelticWomenFCSC – Celtic Women FC Supporters Club

External Links

Official Website: link
also see Celtic Ladies Team page

Articles

Quotes

1) From the Daily Record

link: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/the-lesbian-lions-952353

Tam Cowan, 9 Jun 2007

THE LESBIAN LIONS
IF you think Celtic launching their own ladies’ football team is just an excuse for cheap jokes about The Lesbian Lions you’d be wrong. Nope, I only mention it because there’s one important question I would like to ask. How long do you think it will be before the players start moaning about the hoops on their new jerseys making them look fat?

(Clear sign that some idiots have not progressed)

Articles

About Celtic FC Women

https://celticfcwomen.celticfc.net/about

(from Jan 2020)

2020 marks the move into professional football

Following the announcement of the team turning professional and the appointment of Fran Alonso as Head Coach, there has never been a more exciting time to be at the club. Celtic FC Women’s team was established in June 2007 and immediately took their place within the Scottish Women’s Premier League. Having reached the Scottish Women’s Cup Final in their debut season, the team went on to secure their first silverware within two years, winning the 2010 Scottish Women’s Premier League Cup. Celtic’s ambition to become one of the top teams in the country has ramped up a notch over the past few seasons with the side reaching the SWPL Cup Final in 2017 and 2018, bringing in a new manager and transitioning to full time, aiming for further success. Celtic Women’s team offers female players the opportunity to play an intrinsic role within one of the world’s greatest football clubs and has created a pathway that allows players to progress through the academy and into the first team. With a fresh talented squad that is built on a blend of experience and youth, 2020 promises excitement and competitiveness.

Training Facilities

The club provides an intense and structured training program for the Celtic FC Women’s team, focused on player improvement and development, to provide the best opportunity for footballers to play at the highest level. Overall fitness, strength and conditioning and rehabilitation all form part of the technical training program, which is fully supported by an expert backroom team. The professional coaching staff and medical team work alongside a dedicated sports scientist and performance analyst to ensure our sessions are delivered with acute attention to detail, and to the highest of standards. Since forming in 2007, the Girls’ Academy has seen many players graduate, turning out for the first team and representing the national team.

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Aims & Ambitions

The club aims to create the best possible environment for Celtic FC Women’s team players. The women’s game is moving forward at a relentless pace and Celtic Football Club is at the forefront of this progression in Scotland.

Celtic women’s team go professional with immediate effect

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51020785
From the section Celtic 7 Jan 2020
Celtic have made a “significant investment” to make their women’s team professional with immediate effect.

Several existing players have agreed full-time deals for the 2020 season and will be supplemented by new signings, modern apprentices and amateurs.

A new head coach will be named soon to replace Eddie Wolecki Black, with a full-time assistant coach and dedicated sports science and medical staff.

Under Wolecki Black last season, Celtic finished third in the SWPL.

Wolecki Black stands down as Celtic boss
Celtic going full-time is ‘game-changer’

They were level on points with Hibernian and 11 points behind 13-time champions Glasgow City, who Celtic will host on the opening day of the league season on 23 February.

The campaign starts with a League Cup tie two weeks earlier, with the squad travelling to Spain in the middle January for a warm-weather training camp.

It is a little over a year since Celtic announced their plans to go full-time, and they follow Rangers, who became professional last month and have made a raft of signings.

“Along with the other professional teams in the country, Celtic has an opportunity to be at the forefront of improving the women’s game in Scotland,” read a club statement.

“Always striving to be the best at anything it does, the club relishes this opportunity and looks forward to its wider fan base providing its world-renowned support to all levels of the women’s set-up.”