Glentoran W.F.C.
football club
Glentoran Women Football Club is a women's football club from Belfast, Northern Ireland and a subsidiary of Glentoran Football Club.
The team holds the record as the most successful women's team in the Irish League, having won the Women's Premiership on eleven occasions, most recently in 2025. Having won all four major trophies in the 2020 season, the team was victorious again in the 2021 season, retaining the Irish League, Irish Cup, County Antrim Shield and League Cup to become the first team to ever hold all four trophies, and the first team to retain all four.
2022 Season
As the Northern Ireland Women's Premiership season runs from April to October, the 2022 season was disrupted by the Women's International European Championships held in England during the summer. For the first time in their history, Northern Ireland qualified for the tournament, with a squad including four Glentoran players. This resulted in the players being unavailable for club selection from the start of the season until the tournament had ended in July.
Glentoran suffered two major setbacks, losing forwards Caragh Hamilton through injury and Lauren Wade who signed for Reading in the English Women's Superleague following an impressive European Championship. Despite beating Cliftonville in the final game of the league season, Glentoran struggled to regain the fluidity that had brought success in previous seasons, with Cliftonville going on to win the first league title in their history.
Having won the County Antrim Cup against Crusaders at the Danny Blanchflower stadium a few weeks earlier, Glentoran faced Sion Swifts in the Irish Cup Final on 5 November 2023. Glentoran captain Jessica Foy put the East Belfast side ahead with a free kick that dipped over the goalkeepers head, before Joely Andrews was played through to make the final score 2-0 to Glentoran.
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