The Adran Leagues (for sponsorship reasons called the Genero Adran Leagues) is the senior women's football league in Wales. Founded in 2009 as the Welsh Women's League, it rebranded in 2021 as the Adran Leagues. It consist of three divisions – the top tier is the Adran Premier, and the second tier is split geographically into Adran North and Adran South conferences.

The Adran Leagues runs an annual competition for all clubs, known as the Adran Trophy.

Adran Premier

As of 2023, the Adran Premier consists of eight teams. Each year one is relegated and one is promoted from the second tier. The winners of Adran North and Adran South conferences have a playoff to determine who is promoted, if that team qualifies for a tier one license.

During the first three years of the league's existence, the Premier league was also split into North and South conferences, with a final match determining the overall league champion.

Adran North

Adran North consists of eight teams.[1] For the 2023–24 season, these are:[2]

Abergavenny Women were relegated to the Adran North league in the 2021–22 season after losing their tier one license, then won promotion to the Adran Premier in the 2022–23 season, and were relegated again at the end of that season. They folded rather than returning to Adran North.[3]

Adran South

Adran South consists of eight teams.[4] For the 2023–24 season, these are:[2]

Adran Trophy

The annual league competition, first held in 2014, was initially called the Welsh Premier League Cup. In 2021 it was rebranded to the Adran Trophy.

The competition is run with 24 participating clubs, including all current members of the Premier, North, and South leagues, with the possibility of additional wildcard entries to fill out the total number of clubs to 24..

Past winners
Season Winner Refs
2013–14 Cardiff Met. Ladies F.C. [5]
2014–15 PILCS [6]
2015–16 Swansea City Ladies F.C. [7]
2016–17 Cardiff Met. Ladies [8]
2017–18 Cyncoed Ladies F.C. [9]
2018–19 Cardiff Met. Ladies [10]
2019–20 Final cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic [11]
2020–21 Swansea City Ladies [12]
2021–22 Cardiff Met. Ladies [13]
2022–23 Cardiff Met. Ladies [14]
2023–24 tbd [15]

References

  1. ↑ Limegreentangerine (2023-12-09). "Adran North". www.adranleagues.cymru. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  2. 1 2 Sarah, Hopp- (2023-06-08). "2023/24 Genero Adran Leagues Allocations confirmed". FAW. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  3. ↑ Feringa, Megan (2023-06-07). "FAW deny favouritism allegations as top-flight club folds following relegation". The Mirror. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  4. ↑ Limegreentangerine (2023-11-27). "Adran South". www.adranleagues.cymru. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  5. ↑ "She Kicks - News Section: Cardiff Met Win Welsh Premier Cup". www.shekicks.net. Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  6. ↑ Houldsworth, Andy; Harris, Jon. "PILCS Come From Behind to Claim League Cup". www.welshpremier.co.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  7. ↑ "She Kicks - News Section: Swans Exact Welsh Premier Cup Final Revenge". www.shekicks.net. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "She Kicks - News Section: Cardiff Met Win Welsh Premier League Cup". shekicks.net. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  9. ↑ "She Kicks - News Section: Cyncoed lift the League Cup for first time". Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  10. ↑ "Cardiff Met beat Swansea Ladies 3-1 to win Welsh Premier Women's Cup". BBC Sport. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  11. ↑ The 2019–20 WPWL Cup Final (Cardiff Met.–Swansea City) was cancelled, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    "FAW / 2019/20 FAW Cup Competitions Terminated". www.faw.cymru. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  12. ↑ "#WPWLCup: Swansea City Ladies come from behind to lift trophy". She Kicks. 27 May 2021.
  13. ↑ "Cardiff Met beat Cardiff City to win Genero Adran Trophy". BBC Sport. 27 March 2022.
  14. ↑ "Archers beat Bluebirds to retain Adran Trophy" – via www.bbc.com.
  15. ↑ "Genero Adran Trophy | Round of 16 draw". www.adranleagues.cymru. November 9, 2023.
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