The 2020–21 Scottish Women's Premier League was the 20th season of the SWPL, the highest division of women's football in Scotland since 2002. The league season was played with eight teams. Glasgow City were the defending champions, having won the last completed championship in 2019. The league was known as the Scottish Building Society Scottish Women's Premier League for sponsorship reasons.
The previous season, 2020, was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and was subsequently declared null and void. Following this cancellation, Scottish Women's Football reverted to the winter-season format last used in 2008–09. The new season started on 18 October 2020 and concluded on 4 July 2021. It had been agreed that there would be no relegation from SWPL 1, and that there would be 10 teams in the top division in 2021–22. The 2020–21 season was interrupted for more than three months by the pandemic; SWPL 1 played no games between January and March.
Glasgow City won the championship by three points from Celtic, the runners-up. This was Glasgow City's 14th national league title in succession, the most in Scottish senior football history, and five fewer than the world record in women's football at the time, the 19 titles achieved by SFK of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Teams
Team Location Head coach Home ground Capacity2019 position Celtic East Kilbride Fran Alonso K-Park Training Academy 1,000 3rd Forfar Farmington Forfar Ryan McConville Station Park 6,777 7th Glasgow City Cumbernauld Scott Booth Broadwood Stadium 8,086 1st Heart of Midlothian Edinburgh Andy Kirk Oriam 1,000 1st in SWPL 2 Hibernian Edinburgh Dean Gibson Ainslie Park 3,000 2nd Motherwell Airdrie Eddie Wolecki Black Excelsior Stadium 10,101 6th Rangers Milngavie Malky Thomson Rangers Training Centre 500 4th Spartans Edinburgh Debbi McCulloch Ainslie Park 3,000 5th Source:
League table
Positions by round
Results
Matches 1 to 14
Matches 15 to 21
Statistics Scoring
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Lizzie ArnotRangers162 Sarah EwensCeltic143 Zoe NessRangers124 Kirsty HowatGlasgow CityRangers115 Aoife ColvillGlasgow City9 Donna PatersonForfar Farmington7 Chloe CraigCeltic8 Priscila ChinchillaGlasgow City9 Ode FulutudiluGlasgow City7 Becky GalbraithSpartans Source:
Hat-tricks No.PlayerForAgainstDateScore Ref1 Zoe NessRangersHeart of Midlothian18 October 20205–12 Kirsty HowatGlasgow CityForfar Farmington1 November 20208–13 Donna PatersonForfar FarmingtonHeart of Midlothian8 November 20203–0
References
External links Official website