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St Francis L.F.C.

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ23013895 ↗
Source-derived summary

St Francis Ladies Football Club is an Irish association football club based in Baldonnel, County Dublin. It is the women's section of St Francis F.C. They have entered teams in both the FAI Women's Cup and the Dublin Women's Soccer League. They also represented the Republic of Ireland in the 2009–10 and 2010–11 UEFA Women's Champions Leagues.

History

In 2008 and 2009 with a squad that included Mary Waldron, Grainne Kierans and Megan Campbell, St Francis won two successive FAI Women's Cup/Dublin Women's Soccer League doubles. In the 2008 FAI Women's Cup final, Waldron hit an injury–time winner from the penalty spot as St Francis beat Peamount United 2–1 at Richmond Park. In the 2009 FAI Women's Cup final St Francis defeated St Catherine's 1–0. They also retained the Dublin Women's Soccer League title and won the 2009 DWSL Premier Cup.

St Francis in Europe

2009–10 UEFA Women's Champions League

After winning the 2008 FAI Women's Cup, St Francis qualified for the 2009–10 UEFA Women's Champions League. All of the group matches were played in Cyprus at the Tsirion Stadium and the Pafiako Stadium. St Francis lost all three matches in the tournament.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “St Francis L.F.C.” as football club. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2010, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006. The account is most persuasive where Francis, football and club can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football club. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23013895. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2010 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “St Francis L.F.C.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.