Archive For February 28, 2014

Beveridge looks to fill Cup of ambition as season gets underway

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Bobbie01Spartans Women’s competitive season gets underway tomorrow when they travel to Glasgow to take on Rangers Ladies in the 1st Round of the League Cup at Petershill.

The campaign kicks-off against their fellow SWPL rivals as Debbi McCulloch’s side look to go one better than last season when they lost out to Glasgow City in the Final at Alloa FC’s Recreation Park.

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Kicking-off the season with our new website launch!

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imagesWelcome to our new website!

As the 2014 Scottish Women’s Football season is about to get underway, we’re kicking off our online campaign by launching our new website.

After bringing you all the news, reviews and interviews over the last six years, we thought it was finally time to retire our old site and replace it with a brand new look.

Remember, we’ve changed our domain name to www.spartansfcwomen.com so please remember to bookmark our new site and save in your favourites.

A few of our goals with the new website were to make it faster, easier to navigate for users, and easier for us to manage/update.  We hope we have achieved this.

Thanks for visiting and please take a moment to ‘like’ us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all the latest updates from around Ainslie Park.

Whilst we’ve made every effort to ensure your product has arrived safely, contents may have become unsettled during our testing 🙂

If you have any questions or feedback – perhaps something you’d like to see featured on the site, feel free to let us know by email: contact @ spartanswfc.com or via Twitter: @spartansfcwomen

Our thanks to Carson Ralton for his tireless efforts in making this happen.

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To Adelaide and back. Striker set for Spartans return against Celtic

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LouiseM01After spending the ‘winter’ in Australia, it’s a welcome return to the Academy for Louise Mason.

The 21 year old is currently acclimatising herself after arriving back in the UK earlier this month and is set to feature in Sunday’s pre-season clash against fellow SWPL side, Celtic. (more…)

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Lana looks to start the year as she means to Finnish

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Lana01Spartans Midfielder Lana Clelland heads to Finland on International duty with the Scotland A squad next week as Coach Anna Signeul kicks-off a busy 12 months for her National side.

Speaking ahead of the trip to south Finland, Clelland summed up her pride in making the cut again as, “Unbelievable!”. (more…)

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Spartans Reserves open pre-season Friendlies

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Reserves_huddleSpartans Reserves narrowly lost out 1-2 against Hamilton Caledonian Thistle in their pre-season friendly.

Despite taking a 25 seconds lead through a first class strike by Emma Curson, the visitors hit back with goals in each half and benefitted from some first class saves from their keeper.

A spirited performance by the side who came close to drawing level after Heather Laing’s glancing header from a corner went narrowly over the bar.

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Windy win day as Spartans notch up third pre-season victory

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Hamilton02Spartans continued their winning start to their pre-season campaign with a hard fought 2-0 win over fellow SWPL side Hamilton Accies.

Second half goals from Steph Briggs and Lana Clelland were enough to seal a victory in what were awful conditions at Ainslie Park.

Head Coach Mike Ross was happy with the win, “Naturally we’ve got to be happy with the win against a Hamilton side who were missing a few players who I’m sure will be back here on the opening day of the season. “ (more…)

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