2015–16 Welsh Premier Women's League

The 2015–16 Welsh Premier League was the seventh season of the Women's Welsh Premier League, the top level women's football league in Wales. The season began on 13 September 2015 and ended on 30 May 2016.

Welsh Premier League

Season	2015–16
Champions	Cardiff Met. Ladies (4th title)
Relegated	Newcastle Emlyn
UEFA Women's Champions League	Cardiff Met. Ladies
Matches played	110
Goals scored	544 (4.95 per match)
Biggest home win	Cardiff Met. 12–0 Aberystwyth Town[1]
Biggest away win	Port Talbot Town 0–10 PILCS[2]
Highest scoring	MBi Llandudno Ladies 3–10 Cwmbran Celtic[3]
Longest winning run	8 wins (Swansea City)
Longest unbeaten run	20 games (Cardiff Met.)
Longest losing run	7 losses (Newcastle Emlyn)
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

Cardiff Met. Ladies were the defending champions and retained the title after completing an unbeaten season, winning 18 and drawing 2 of their 20 games.

Shannon Evans from Cardiff City won the top goalscorer award after scoring 37 goals, despite being a makeshift forward due to injury. Player of the Season was won by Cardiff Met. captain Emily Allen.^[4]

Clubs

Aberystwyth Town

Swansea City

PILCS

Newcastle Emlyn

Cardiff (3 teams)

Cwmbran Celtic

Rhyl & Prestatyn

Port Talbot Town

MBi Llandudno Ladies

Locations of teams in the 2015–16 Premier League

Despite finishing sixth in the 2014–15 season, Wrexham ladies dropped out of the league for the 2015–16 season citing a lack of players.^[5] Cyncoed Ladies replaced Wrexham Ladies in the league, after winning the South Wales Women's and Girls League Division 1.^[6] 11 teams ended up competing in the league.

Team	City	Ground
Aberystwyth Town Ladies	Aberystwyth	Park Avenue
Cardiff City Women	Cardiff	Leckwith Athletics Stadium
Cardiff Metropolitan Ladies	Cardiff	Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cyncoed Campus
PILCS Ladies	Pontypool
Cwmbran Celtic	Cwmbran
Cyncoed Ladies	Cardiff	Cardiff University Playing Fields, Llanrumney
MBi Llandudno Ladies	Llandudno Junction	Maesdu Park
Newcastle Emlyn Ladies	Newcastle Emlyn	Parc Emlyn
Port Talbot Town Ladies	Port Talbot	The Genquip Stadium
Rhyl & Prestatyn Ladies	Prestatyn	Rhyl FC's Corbett Sports Stadium
Swansea City Ladies	Port Talbot	Baglan Playing Fields

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		CAM	SWA	CAC	CWM	PIL	LLA	POR	CYN	ABE	RHY	NEW
1	Cardiff Metropolitan	20	18	2	0	115	14	+101	56	Qualification to 2016–17 Champions League		—	2–1	2–0	4–1	6–2	8–0	8–2	6–0	12–0	9–0	10–0
2	Swansea City	20	16	2	2	47	10	+37	50			0–0	—	2–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	5–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	7–0
3	Cardiff City	20	13	3	4	74	28	+46	42			1–1	0–2	—	1–1	4–1	2–1	3–0	2–1	6–2	4–3	11–0
4	Cwmbran Celtic	20	12	4	4	63	38	+25	40			1–9	0–2	1–1	—	1–4	7–1	2–1	3–2	1–1	3–1	6–1
5	PILCS	20	13	0	7	79	41	+38	39			4–8	2–1	1–3	3–6	—	7–1	4–1	2–1	7–0	5–0	9–0
6	MBi Llandudno Ladies	20	7	2	11	53	70	−17	23			1–8	0–2	3–6	3–10	4–3	—	3–3	0–1	4–0	8–2	11–0
7	Port Talbot Town	20	6	3	11	32	56	−24	21			0–3	0–1	3–2	0–4	0–10	1–1	—	1–2	3–1	5–1	2–1
8	Cyncoed Ladies	20	5	2	13	23	52	−29	17			1–5	0–2	0–3	0–4	2–5	1–5	4–1	—	2–0	0–4	1–0
9	Aberystwyth Town	20	4	2	14	21	59	−38	14			0–3	1–2	1–5	0–2	0–2	2–1	0–3	1–1	—	1–2	4–0
10	Rhyl & Prestatyn	20	4	2	14	28	72	−44	14			0–5	1–4	3–9	1–3	1–4	0–1	1–1	3–1	1–3	—	3–2
11	Newcastle Emlyn	20	0	2	18	9	104	−95	2	Relegation to South Wales Women's & Girls' League		0–6	0–3	0–5	1–5	0–4	0–4	0–5	3–3	0–4	1–1	—

Updated to match(es) played on 11 August 2019. Source: Welsh Premier Women's League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored

League Cup

← 2014–15 · 2016–17 →

This was the third season of the WPWL Cup and Swansea City were the third different team to win the competition. Aberystwyth Town Ladies, Cwmbran Celtic Ladies, Cyncoed Ladies and MBI Llandudno all received byes into round two and Wrexham Ladies were forced to withdraw which allowed Swansea City Ladies a bye into the quarter-finals.^[7] The cup was won by Swansea City, beating defending champions PILCS 4–0 with goals from Katy Hosford (2), Emma Benyon and Sophie Hancocks.^[8]

Round One

Wrexham Ladies withdrew allowing Swansea City a bye into the quarter-finals.

Newcastle Emlyn v PILCS

1 November 2015[9]	Newcastle Emlyn	0–7	PILCS	Parc Emlyn
14:00		Report	Jassie Costa 11' Shauna Pentney 31' Lindsay Davies 35', 61', 66' Alana Murphy 45', 70'

Port Talbot Town v Cardiff City

1 November 2015[10]	Port Talbot Town	0–3 (a.e.t.)	Cardiff City	The Genquip Stadium
14:00		Report	Lisa Bird 94' Kylie Davies 110' Alicia Davies 115'

Rhyl & Prestatyn v Cardiff Metropolitan

1 November 2015[11]	Rhyl & Prestatyn	0–8	Cardiff Metropolitan	Corbett Sports Stadium
14:00		Report	Stacey Ayling 3' Steph Turner 13' Erin Murray 23', 81' Emily Allen 35', 78' Robyn Pinder 39' Abi Fever 55'

Quarter-finals

Cardiff Metropolitan v MBi Llandudno Ladies

6 December 2015[12]	Cardiff Metropolitan	9–2	MBi Llandudno Ladies	Cardiff Metropolitan University
13:30

Cwmbran Celtic v PILCS

6 December 2015[13]	Cwmbran Celtic	2–3	PILCS	Celtic Park, Cwmbran
13:30	Lauren Boyd 35', 52'		Alana Murphy 20' Jassie Costa 60', 70'

Cyncoed Ladies v Cardiff City

6 December 2015[14]	Cyncoed Ladies	2–4	Cardiff City	Cardiff University Playing Fields, Llanrumney
13:30		Report	Nicola Jones Shannon Evans

Aberystwyth Town v Swansea City

13 December 2015[15]	Aberystwyth Town	0–4	Swansea City	Evan Bevans Playing Field, Baglan
13:30

Semi-finals

PILCS v Cardiff Metropolitan

24 January 2016[16]	PILCS	3–1	Cardiff Metropolitan	New Road, Pontypool
14:00	Alana Murphy 5' Jassie Costa 20', 38'	Report	Stacey Ayling 60'

Cardiff City v Swansea City

24 January 2016	Cardiff City	1–3 (a.e.t.)	Swansea City	Leckwith Athletics Stadium
14:00	Chelsea Cochrane 70' (pen.)	Report	Emma Beynon 54' Jodie Passmore

Final

PILCS v Swansea City

28 April 2016[17]	PILCS	0-4	Swansea City
19:30		Report	Katy Hosford 4', 65' Emma Beynon 60' Sophie Hancocks 75'