Wanderers Women: A Year of Success

Bolton Wanderers recently partnered up with HerGameToo, a group of female supporters who are passionate about eradicating sexism in football and celebrating the female fan. Now, the partnership is entering a new and exciting era with the re-launch of the Official Bolton Wanderers Women’s Team!

We thought this would be a fantastic opportunity to share with you all the overwhelming success of women and girls football here at Bolton Wanderers, which consists of 5 junior teams from U12-U18 and 2 open age teams consisting of the Women’s First Team and Reserves.

Our U12 Girls currently play in Wigan YFL Boys League. They won the Failsworth Villa Tournament this summer.

Our U13 Girls will this season be playing in BBDFL (Bolton and Bury Boys League). Last season they came runners up in the league and won the League Cup, the first all-girls team to ever win the Wigan’s Boys League Cup. They also won the Fleetwood Town Tournament, the Altrincham FC Tournament and the Lilleshall National Europa Cup. They were also invited in to play against Manchester City Girls Academy at the City Football Academy and beat them 4-1.

Our U14 Girls currently play a year up in the U15 South Manchester Girls Football League. Last season as U13s they came runner up in the U14 League and won the U14 League Cup. They also won tournaments at; Fleetwood Town, Altrincham FC, Cadishead FC, Runners Up at the Lilleshall Nationals, Runners Up in the Lancashire County Cup held at the Lancashire FA Headquarters.

Our U15 currently play in the Wigan YFL Boys League 2nd division. They were Runners Up in the Lancashire County Cup also at the Lancashire FA Headquarters.

Our U18s currently play in the Greater Manchester Women’s U18s Football League. The whole team are U16 and play up two years. Last year they were U15 but came League Runners Up and Cup Runners Up in the U16 League.

Our reserves have only been created this season to support our Women’s first team. They have entered the Lancashire County Championship League. Last year as an u16 age group they came runners up in the Greater Manchester u18 Football League and they also won the Lancashire County Cup. This year they are all U17 and U18 girls playing Women’s football.

This season our Women’s First Team will play in North West Regional League Division 1 North. This is the 6th tier of Women’s Football. Last season they won the Lancashire County Premiership (Tier 7 of women’s Football) in their first year since conception. They were also winners of the Rochdale FC Tournament.