2024–25 Scottish Women's Premier League: Difference between revisions

Scottish Women's Premier League
Season	2024–25
Dates	10 August 2024 – 18 May 2025
Matches played	92
Goals scored	410 (4.46 per match)
Top goalscorer	Katie Wilkinson (22 Goals)
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The 2024–25 season of the Scottish Women's Premier League (2024–25 SWPL), also known as ScottishPower Women's Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is the 24th iteration of the top-tier Scottish women's football league, and the 3rd season organised by the SPFL.

The 2024–25 season began with the defending champions Celtic^[1] hosting Dundee United on 10 August 2024. The final matchday of the regular season is scheduled for 2 March 2025^[2] and the last post-split matchday (32nd game overall) is scheduled for 18 May 2025.^[3]

Due to the format changes planned for the 2025–26 season, which will bring the number of teams in both SWPL and SWPL 2 to 10, the 2024–25 season is transitional. The competition format remains unchanged, but there will be no relegation play-off and the three lowest-ranked teams are directly relegated to 2025–26 SWPL 2.^[4]^[5]

Teams

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Locations of teams in the 2024–25 SWPL.

Team	Location	Manager	Home ground	Capacity	2023–24 finish
Aberdeen	Cove Bay	Scott Booth	Balmoral Stadium	2,602	8th
Celtic	Airdrie	Elena Sadiku	Excelsior Stadium	10,101	1st
Dundee United	Dundee	Suzy Shepherd	Foundation Park	225	11th
Glasgow City	Springburn	Leanne Ross	Petershill Park	1,000	3rd
Heart of Midlothian	Edinburgh	Eva Olid	Oriam	1,000	4th
Hibernian	Edinburgh	Grant Scott	Meadowbank Stadium	1,320	5th
Montrose	Montrose	Craig Feroz	Links Park	4,936	9th
Motherwell	Motherwell	Paul Brownlie	K-Park	500	7th
Partick Thistle	Springburn	Brian Graham	Petershill Park	1,000	6th
Queen's Park	Glasgow	Craig Joyce	New Tinto Park	1,000	1st (SWPL 2)
Rangers	Cumbernauld	Jo Potter	Broadwood Stadium	8,086	2nd
Spartans	Edinburgh	Jack Beesley	Ainslie Park	3,000	10th

Team changes

Entering league	Exiting league
Promoted from 2023–24 SWPL 2	Relegated to 2024–25 SWPL 2
Queen's Park	Hamilton Academical

Regular season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Glasgow City	16	13	2	1	62	4	+58	41	Advances to the championship round
2	Rangers	16	12	3	1	77	13	+64	39
3	Heart of Midlothian	16	12	1	3	58	7	+51	37
4	Hibernian	15	10	3	2	49	13	+36	33
5	Celtic	14	10	2	2	45	10	+35	32
6	Motherwell	16	6	1	9	33	38	−5	19
7	Partick Thistle	16	4	6	6	22	27	−5	18	Participates in the relegation round
8	Spartans	16	4	2	10	16	38	−22	14
9	Aberdeen	14	3	2	9	11	52	−41	11
10	Montrose	15	2	2	11	17	59	−42	8
11	Queen's Park	15	2	1	12	10	69	−59	7
12	Dundee United	15	1	1	13	10	80	−70	4

Updated to match(es) played on 15 December 2024. Source: SWPL.uk
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored;

Results

Home \ Away	ABE	CEL	DUN	GLA	HEA	HIB	MON	MOT	PAR	QUE	RAN	SPA
Aberdeen		0–4		0–5	0–2	1–7	2–0	0–6			0–11
Celtic			9–0	1–0		0–0	5–1	5–1		5–0	2–3	1–0
Dundee United	1–2			0–13	0–8				0–4	2–3	0–10	1–2
Glasgow City					2–1	3–0			3–0	8–0	3–0	6–0
Heart of Midlothian	3–0	1–0	9–0	0–0		0–1		6–1			0–2	5–0
Hibernian	7–0		6–0		0–4		5–1	4–0	1–1	6–1	1–1
Montrose		2–4	2–1	0–7	0–3				1–1		0–9	0–3
Motherwell		0–4	4–1	0–1		0–5	3–2		0–4	6–1	0–1
Partick Thistle	2–2	0–3		0–2	0–3	1–2	3–3	1–1		2–0		1–1
Queen's Park	0–2		1–2	1–6	1–11		0–3	0–6				1–0
Rangers		2–2	6–1	1–1			10–2	2–0	4–0	9–0		6–1
Spartans	3–1			0–2	0–2	0–4	3–0	1–5	1–2	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 15 December 2024. Source: SWPL.uk
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship Round

The points and scores from the regular season carry over to the championship round.

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification	RS1	RS2	RS3	RS4	RS5	RS6
1	Regular Season Position 1	Secures a spot in the Champions league qualifying round 2, champions path	—
2	Regular Season Position 2	Secures a spot in the Champions league qualifying round 2, league path		—
3	Regular Season Position 3				—
4	Regular Season Position 4					—
5	Regular Season Position 5						—
6	Regular Season Position 6							—

First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: SWPL.uk
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored;

Relegation Round

The points and scores from the regular season carry over to the relegation round.

Pos	Team v t e	Relegation	RS7	RS8	RS9	RSA	RSB	RSC
1	Regular Season Position 7		—
2	Regular Season Position 8			—
3	Regular Season Position 9				—
4	Regular Season Position 10	Relegation to 2025–26 SWPL 2				—
5	Regular Season Position 11						—
6	Regular Season Position 12							—

First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: SWPL.uk
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored;

Awards

Player of the Month

Month	Player	Team	Source
August	Abbie Ferguson	Hibernian	^[6]
September
October
November
December
January
February
March
April
May

Goal of the Month

Month	Player	Team	Against	Source
August	Tiree Burchill	Partick Thistle	Spartans	^[7]
September
October
November
December
January
February
March
April
May

Top goalscorers

As of 15 December 2024

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Katie Wilkinson	Rangers	22
2	Eilidh Adams	Hibernian	16
3	Laura Berry	Rangers	12
4	Rio Hardy	Rangers	12
5	Saoirse Noonan	Celtic	12
6	Nicole Kozlova	Glasgow City	12
7	Kathleen McGovern	Hibernian	12
8	Olufolasade Adamolekun	Heart of Midlothian	9
9	Hannah Jordan	Spartans	9
10	Sofia Määttä	Glasgow City	8
11	Emily Whelan	Glasgow City	8
12	Bayley Hutchison	Heart of Midlothian	8
13	Natalia Wrobel	Glasgow City	8

References

^ "Celtic win 2023/24 ScottishPower Women's Premier League on final day". SWPL. 20 May 2024. Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
^ "2024/25 ScottishPower Women's Premier League Fixtures Released". SWPL. 27 June 2024. Archived from the original on 12 July 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
^ SWPL Key dates for Season 2024/25, Scottish Women's Premier League
^ "Changes to SWPL competition format confirmed". SWPL. 6 June 2024. Archived from the original on 9 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
^ SWPL restructure means the pressure is on big time to survive drop, Alison McConnell, Glasgow Times, 8 June 2024
^ "Ferguson and Giard win first SWPL Player of the Month awards of 2024/25 season". SWPL. 11 September 2024. Archived from the original on 17 September 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
^ "Tiree Burchill wins August SWPL Goal of the Month, supported by Park's Motor Group". SWPL. 10 September 2024. Archived from the original on 17 September 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2024.

External links

Official website

[def_champ-1] "Celtic win 2023/24 ScottishPower Women's Premier League on final day". SWPL. 20 May 2024. Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.

[schedule-2] "2024/25 ScottishPower Women's Premier League Fixtures Released". SWPL. 27 June 2024. Archived from the original on 12 July 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.

[3] SWPL Key dates for Season 2024/25, Scottish Women's Premier League

[format-4] "Changes to SWPL competition format confirmed". SWPL. 6 June 2024. Archived from the original on 9 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.

[5] SWPL restructure means the pressure is on big time to survive drop, Alison McConnell, Glasgow Times, 8 June 2024

[6] "Ferguson and Giard win first SWPL Player of the Month awards of 2024/25 season". SWPL. 11 September 2024. Archived from the original on 17 September 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2024.

[7] "Tiree Burchill wins August SWPL Goal of the Month, supported by Park's Motor Group". SWPL. 10 September 2024. Archived from the original on 17 September 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2024.

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Domestic leagues	SPFL Premiership Championship League One League Two Highland Lowland Midlands North Caledonian North Region Junior East of Scotland South of Scotland West of Scotland Women's Premier League SWPL 1 SWPL 2 Women's Championship
Domestic cups	Scottish Cup League Cup Group stage Final Challenge Cup South Region Challenge Cup Junior Cup Youth Cup Women's Cup Women's Premier League Cup
European competitions	Champions League Europa League Conference League Youth League
Related to national team	Results Men's Women's 2024–25 UEFA Nations League 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
Transfers	Summer 2024 Winter 2024–25
Club seasons
Premiership	Aberdeen Celtic Dundee Dundee United Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Kilmarnock Motherwell Rangers Ross County St Johnstone St Mirren
Championship	Airdrieonians Ayr United Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Greenock Morton Hamilton Academical Livingston Partick Thistle Queen's Park Raith Rovers
League One	Alloa Athletic Annan Athletic Arbroath Cove Rangers Dumbarton Inverness Caledonian Thistle Kelty Hearts Montrose Queen of the South Stenhousemuir
League Two	Bonnyrigg Rose Clyde East Fife Edinburgh City Elgin City Forfar Athletic Peterhead Stirling Albion Stranraer The Spartans

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