FA Women's Cup News and Results 11/10/22 (Collie, Francis, Freeman, D Green, Gunney, Horgan, Hosford, N Jenkins, Lake, Saunders, Rees, Tiley, Watkins, J Williams)

FA Women's Cup holders Cardiff City Women beat Cascade YC 5-0 as they begin their defence of the trophy. Danielle Green, Megan Saunders, Seren Watkins and Eliza Collie were all on the scoresheet, with Eliza netting twice.

News 8/10/22 (Switzerland v Cymru)

FAW have posted ticket details for Cymru's World Cup play-off in Switzerland.

News 7/10/22 (Fishlock, Grainger, Wiltshire)

Jess Fishlock relives her dream goal, but Gemma Grainger is already looking forward to the next match.

Result: Wales 1-0 Bosnia-Herzegovina AET

(Click on any of the links for a more official match report)

Last night, Wales played their first ever World Cup play-off - and won. If it was men's football, that would be enough, but as this is women's football, they have another game to win. The exact specifics of the win are as complicated as everything else, but today, let's just celebrate.

News 6/10/22 (Grainger, Holland, Ingle, Carrie Jones, Lancaster, R Roberts, Rowe)

BBC Sport previews Wales' World Cup play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina. The kick-off is at 7.15pm today (Thursday 6th October) and you can follow the match on BBC One Wales, BBC Radio Wales, Radio Cymru, Cymry Fyw and the BBC Sport Website.

News 5/10/22 (Wales v Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ingle, Carrie Jones, Ladd)

Wales are set to break their attendance record again in their World Cup play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina.

News 4/10/22 (Wales v Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rowe)

Information for supporters about Wales' play-off match against Bosnia-Herzegovina at the Cardiff City stadium. Tickets are still available.

Wales News 3/10/22 (Filbey, Rowe)

VAR will be used in all the World Cup play-offs.

Wales made history by making the World Cup play-offs, but Anna Filbey and Rachel Rowe want to make more history.

Other Results (played 2/10/22) (Atkins, Broadhurst, Hosford, Jenkins, Emma Jones, Lake, Legall, Poole, Power, F Price, Rossiter, Stevens, J Williams, Ward)

FA Women’s Championship

Oxford United 1-1 Watford

Oxford haven’t lost at home for nearly three years and Watford were within minutes of ending that run. After a very long period of stoppage time, Oxford found the equaliser they needed – though Watford themselves are unbeaten in three. Helen Ward came closest to giving Watford a second goal after replacing Annie Rossiter in the 81^st minute. Lily Stevens played 90 minutes for Oxford.

Women's League Cup Part 3 (played 2/10/22) (Dudley-Jones, Gemma Evans, Griffiths, Gane, Hoare, McAteer, Rowe, Woodham, Wynne)

If you have no idea what's going on with regard to how the competition works and why teams who lost haven't been knocked out, this page might help you. On the other hand, it might not....

GROUP E

Coventry United 2-0 Southampton

Coventry United haven’t been doing so well in the league, but they made up for it today. The game started slowly, though Megan Wynne, restored to the starting line-up, nearly helped Southampton into the perfect start when she dodged her marker got down the wing and sent in a cross which none of her team-mates quite got to. Alice Griffiths also started for Southampton

Women's League Cup Results Part 2 (played 2/10/22) (Bull, Clark, Cleverly, Estcourt, Filbey, K Green, Elise Hughes, Longhurst, F Morgan, Powell, Smith, Soper, Teisar)

If you have no idea what's going on with regard to how the competition works and why teams who lost haven't been knocked out, this page might help you. On the other hand, it might not....

GROUP C

Birmingham City 3-2 Brighton & Hove Albion

Charlie Estcourt was an unused substitute as Birmingham of the Championship beat the Super League’s Brighton. 

Birmingham went ahead after 25 minutes and remained in the lead for the rest of the match, but Brighton kept the pressure on, twice reducing a two-goal deficit, though unable to find the equaliser that could have got them a point or two. Forward Kayleigh Green played as a left-sided centre back for Brighton. Highlights can be watched here.

Birmingham are top. West Ham are second with two points after beating London City Lionesses in the penalty shoot-out. I’ll let you guess where Brighton are.

 

Women's League Cup Results Part 1 (played 2/10/22) (B Davies, Francis-Jones, J Green, Holland, Carrie Jones, Leek, R Roberts, Walters, Chloe Williams)

 FA Women’s League Cup Results

It all could have been so simple. Teams play each other; if there’s a draw, there’s a penalty shoot-out. The winner of each match progresses to the next round, and so on until there’s only one team left. That’s how the men do it and it only gets complicated when the FA Cup winners manage to get themselves relegated (yes, Wigan Athletic: I mean you. You legends).

Other Results (played on 18/9/22) (Atkins, Broadhurst, Chamberlain, D Green, E Hughes, Nolan, Oakley, Poole, F Price, E Roberts, Rossiter, S Walsh, Watkins, Watson)

Watford 6-0 Cheltenham Town

Watford bounced back from a defeat in the best possible way, with an emphatic victory Cheltenham Town. Andria Georgiou got her second goal in two games after just two minutes, her shot too much for Cheltenham keeper Aimee Watson.

Women's Championship Results Part 2 (played 18/9/22) (B Davies, Dudley-Jones, Francis-Jones, Gane, Hoare, Leek, Thomas, Walters, C Williams)

Durham 3-1 Blackburn Rovers

Durham got their first win of the season when they hosted Blackburn Rovers. Durham started very strongly, registering several attempts on goal early on before Saoirse Noonan finally put the ball into the top corner. Sarah Robson made it two before half-time when her strike went in off the post.

Women's Championship Results Part 1 (played 18/9/22) (C Bull, Clark, Estcourt, Filbey, Elise Hughes, F Morgan, Powell, Teisar,)

Bristol City 1-0 Sunderland

Bristol City got their third win and third clean sheet in three games, but it wasn't an easy afternoon against a strong and physical Sunderland team.  A couple of early shots were off-target for Bristol City, then Chloe Mustaki had a penalty appeal rejected. Abi Harrison had the ball in the net shortly before half-time, but it was disallowed for a foul on Claudia Moan.

Women's Super League Results (played 18/9/22) (J Green, Harding Holland, Ingle, James, Carrie Jones, Ellen Jones, McAteer, R Roberts)

Aston Villa 4-3 Manchester City

Much as I take issue with the view that all 0-0 draws are boring, there is always something to be said for a game with this many goals. Aston Villa had never beaten Manchester City until today - indeed, they hadn't even scored against them and had lost all four of their previous matches against them with an aggregate score of 17-0.

News and Results 18/9/22 (Beynon, John-Davis, Emma Jones, Lake, Legall, Powe, Skinner, Stevens, Wynne)

Swansea City 1-0 Barry Town)

Stacey John-Davis scored the only goal as Swansea City beat Barry Town to make it two wins from two games. After team-mate Monet Legall was brought down illegally, Stacey stepped up to place the penalty in the top right corner. 

Women's Super League Results (played 17/9/22) (Gemma Evans, Ladd, Rowe, Le Tissier, Woodham)

Manchester United 4-0 Reading

Manchester United made a great start to the new season in front of a record crowd at Leigh Sports Village.

It's always great to score on your debut, but it's not something you'd expect of a centre back. You certainly wouldn't expect a debutante to score two on their debut - but that's what Maya Le Tissier (no, not one of those Le Tissiers) did. Maya was born in Guernsey (yes, so was the other Le Tissier, but they're still not related) so I believe she could play for Wales. If she would like to, that's absolutely fine with me. (I'm a Wales fan. I'm good at dreaming. And some of my dreams come true.)

Women's Super League Result: Arsenal 4-0 Brighton & Hove Albion (K Green)

Arsenal opened the Women's Super League season with a 4-0 hammering of Brighton & Hove Albion. If anyone is likely to topple Chelsea from the top of the league table come the end of the season, the general consensus is that it's most likely to be Arsenal - and a comprehensive win was a great way to start..

News 17/9/22 (Estcourt, FA Women's Cup)

Charlie Estcourt has joined Birmingham City on a one-year contract following a successful trial. She has been without a club since leaving Coventry United this summer.

The FA Women's Cup qualifying round takes place this weekend.