2021 Women's Premiership (Northern Ireland)

The 2021 Northern Irish Women's Premiership, was the 18th season of the top-tier women's football league in Northern Ireland. Glentoran Ladies were the defending champions.[1]

Women's Premiership (Northern Ireland)
Champions Glentoran Ladies (9th title)
Women's Champions League Glentoran Ladies
Matches played60
Highest scoringCliftonville 12-0 Derry City (18 August 2021)
← 2020
2022 →

Glentoran Ladies won their ninth league title.[2]

For the 2021 season, no team was relegated as the league was to increase to eight teams for the 2022 season.[3]

Teams and locations

The following teams made up the 2021 season.

Location of teams in the 2021 season

Teams are listed in alphabetical order.

Team Location Stadium Capacity
Cliftonville Belfast (Oldpark) Solitude 2,530
Crusaders Strikers Belfast (Newtownabbey) Seaview 3,383
Derry City Derry Brandywell Stadium 3,700
Glentoran Belfast (Sydenham) The Oval 26,556
Linfield Belfast (Boucher Road) New Midgley Park n/k
Sion Swifts Strabane Melvin Sports Complex n/k

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 Glentoran (C) 20 17 1 2 81 16 +65 52 Qualification for the Champions League first round
2 Cliftonville Ladies F.C. 20 16 1 3 73 27 +46 49
3 Crusaders Strikers 20 9 1 10 32 30 +2 28
4 Sion Swifts 20 7 1 12 32 41 −9 22
5 Linfield 20 6 2 12 35 61 −26 20
6 Derry City 20 2 0 18 13 91 −78 6
Updated to match(es) played on 06 October 2021. Source:

For the 2021 season, no team was relegated as the league was to increase to eight teams for the 2022 season.

Results
Home \ Away CLI CRS DER GLE LIN SIO CLI CRS DER GLE LIN SIO
Cliftonville — 4–1 12–0 4–2 3–2 3–2 — 2–1 9–0 0–4 0–0 6–2
Crusaders 0–1 — 4–1 1–2 1–0 2–1 1–3 — 3–0 0–2 6–2 2–1
Derry City 0–4 0–1 — 2–8 1–4 1–0 1–6 2–1 — 0–7 1–6 0–4
Glentoran 4–1 1–0 3–0 — 3–0 4–1 3–2 3–0 9–1 — 9–0 3–1
Linfield 1–4 1–3 3–1 1–1 — 3–0 2–5 2–1 4–1 0–9 — 3–4
Sion Swifts 0–1 2–2 2–1 0–3 6–0 — 1–3 0–2 1–0 2–1 2–1 —
Updated to match(es) played on 06 October 2021. Source: [4]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References
  1. "STANDINGS". NI Football League. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  2. "Women's Premiership: Glentoran retain title with home win over Cliftonville in thriller". BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  3. "Growing women's game 'left to NIFL'". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  4. "PREMIERSHIP WOMEN". Soccerway.com. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
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