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A brief history of the club, since its founding in 1989.
LEEDS UNITED LADIES FC was formed in 1989. Over the years the club has been in major force in the country with junior teams at U10/U12/U14/U16 as well as a Development, Reserves and First team. We are a self funded independant amateur club with its own committee for the day to day running of the club. The first team play in the FA Women's National Premier League as well as having a reserve team playing in the FA Women's National Premier Northern Reserve League. To encourage the growth of women's football, we also have a development team, the Leeds Carnegie Development team, which plays in the North-East Regional Women's Premier League. Over the summer of 2007 the Leeds United Ladies youth teams have amalgamated with the Leeds United Girls Centre of excellence to form one organisation that feeds into the open age teams of Leeds United Ladies.
The new structure will enable better player development through more coaching and matches against similar standard players from other Centre of excellences through a new league structure. It is hoped that this way we will see more local players progressing through into the Leeds United Ladies first team and gaining international honours.The club has five members of the first squad that have progressed through from the Leeds United Ladies youth teams and it is hoped there will be an influx every year. The club has been voted Northern ‘Club of the Year’ and gained recognition for its Volunteer Investment Programme receiving a High Commended Certificate for North East Area of Sport England in recent years. After seven years playing in the Yorkshire & Humberside league, the season 1997/98 saw the first team gain promotion to the AXA FA Northern Premier League. After consolidating and adjusting to National league football for a couple of seasons they then achieved promotion as champions of the Northern Premier League, the same season also saw them play in the semi finals of the Women’s FA cup.Leeds United ladies first team then gained promotion in 2001/02 to the FA National League where they finished a very credible fourth, the next season proved to be a tough one and the team finished the league in seventh place.2003/2004 saw a new manager—Julie Chipchase—and the team once again finished in fourth place, the highest placed team outside London. 2004/05 the team finished in fifth place. 2005/06 saw the team achieve one of it’s greatest achievements to date, playing in the Women’s FA Cup final.Season 2006-2007 was an up and down season with Leeds topping the table over the Xmas period and getting through to their second National cup final in two years when they narrowly lost 1-0 in the 90th of the League cup final against Arsenal.This seemed to have a big impact, as they didn’t perform as well in the closing stages dropping down to fifth by the end of the season. The club won “Marketing Club of the year” at the FA Awards in May 2007 for the third year in a row. A change in management was made in the closed season and Rick Passmoor and Leanne Hall were appointed Manager and assistant manager in July 2007.The new management team brought in new signings including International Steph Houghton, Carly Telford, Katie Holtham, Georgie Adams, Jade Moore and Carly Ward. . The club are always looking for voluntees to help with the running of the club whether for a one off event or matchday help. If you have any spare time to help please contact the club through the contacts page. Recent HonoursFA Women's Premier League Northern Division FA Women's Cup FA Women's Premier League Cup |
